Senate votes to sustain Gibbons’ 2007 veto

By Cy Ryan

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 | 12:38 p.m.

CARSON CITY – The Senate voted 20-0 to sustain a 2007 veto of a bill to allow rural counties to raise their property tax rate by 4 cents to operate juvenile detention centers.

The bill was introduced two years ago by Sen. Mike McGinness, R-Fallon, and was approved by the Senate 11-10 and then by the Assembly 38-3.

Gov. Jim Gibbons vetoed the bill after the 2007 session ended.

Senate Bill 146 would have permitted county commissioners in counties with less than a population of 100,000 people to impose, through a two-thirds vote, the property tax up to 4 cents.