2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 641A - Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors
NRS 641A.297 - Recording of certain training activities: Retention; requirements; compliance with and applicability of provisions governing health care records; regulations.

1. A program of education for mental health professionals approved by the Board, a mental health professional or a person receiving training for mental health professionals is not required to retain a recording of the provision of mental health services by a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor to a client that meets the requirements of subsection 2 if:

(a) The recording is used for a training activity that is part of a program of education for mental health professionals approved by the Board;

(b) The client has provided informed consent in writing on a form that meets the requirements prescribed by the Board pursuant to subsection 3 to the use of the recording in the training activity;

(c) Destroying the recording does not result in noncompliance with the obligations described in subsection 4; and

(d) The recording is destroyed after the expiration of the period of time prescribed by the Board pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 3.

2. A recording of the provision of mental health services by a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor to a client used for the purpose described in paragraph (a) of subsection 1:

(a) Must meet all requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191, and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, that are designed to prevent the reproduction, copying or theft of the recording; and

(b) Must not contain any personally identifiable information relating to the client unless the client has provided informed consent in writing specifically authorizing the inclusion of that information in the recording.

3. The Board shall adopt regulations:

(a) Prescribing requirements governing the provision of informed written consent pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1, including, without limitation, requirements governing:

(1) The form on which such informed written consent must be provided; and

(2) The length of time that a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor who obtains such informed written consent must maintain the informed written consent;

(b) Prescribing the length of time that a program of education for mental health professionals, a mental health professional or a person receiving training for mental health professionals that uses a recording of the provision of mental health services by a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor to a client for the purposes described in paragraph (a) of subsection 1 may retain the recording before destroying it; and

(c) Defining "training activity" for the purposes of this section.

4. The provisions of this section do not abrogate, alter or otherwise affect the obligation of a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor to comply with the applicable requirements of chapter 629 of NRS, including, without limitation, the requirement to retain records concerning the mental health services that he or she provides to clients in accordance with NRS 629.051 to 629.069, inclusive.

5. Except where necessary for compliance with subsection 4, a recording of the provision of mental health services by a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor to a client that is used for a training activity by a program of education for mental health professionals, a mental health professional or a person receiving training for mental health professionals in accordance with the provisions of this section is not a health care record for the purposes of chapter 629 of NRS.

6. As used in this section, "mental health professional" means a psychologist, a marriage and family therapist, a clinical professional counselor, a social worker, a master social worker, an independent social worker, a clinical social worker, a clinical alcohol and drug counselor, an alcohol and drug counselor or a problem gambling counselor.

(Added to NRS by 2021, 2193)