1. A health care facility shall not provide a patient with human reproductive material for assisted reproduction except in accordance with any written agreement entered into between:
- (a) The health care facility and the patient; and
- (b) The health care facility and the donor.
2. A health care facility that violates the provisions of this section is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each violation. This penalty must be recovered in a civil action, brought in the name of the State of Nevada by the Attorney General. In such an action, the Attorney General may recover reasonable attorney’s fees and costs. If a civil penalty is imposed against a health care facility for violating the provisions of this section, the Attorney General shall, within 30 days after the imposition of the civil penalty, notify:
- (a) The Health Care Purchasing and Compliance Division of the Nevada Health Authority, if the violation was committed by a medical facility or medical laboratory.
- (b) The occupational licensing board responsible for licensing the provider of health care who oversees an unlicensed health care facility, if the violation was committed by a health care facility that is not a medical facility or medical laboratory.
3. As used in this section:
- (a) “Assisted reproduction” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 126.510.
- (b) “Health care facility” means a medical facility, sperm bank, laboratory, clinic or office of a provider of health care that provides services relating to assisted reproduction.
- (c) “Human reproductive material” means a gamete or human organism at any stage of development from fertilized ovum to embryo.
- (d) “Medical facility” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0151.
- (e) “Medical laboratory” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 652.060.
- (f) “Provider of health care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 200.975.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 1430; A 2025, 3736)