The Assembly approved a bill directing $2.5 billion to public schools to reduce class sizes and handle inflation and higher enrollments in the next two years.
After an intense lobbying effort by both Nevada and national advocates, a bill to require background checks on private party gun sales was brought back from the brink of death today.
After a malfunctioning reader board threw its future into question, a bill that would create a legal medical marijuana dispensary system in Nevada passed the Assembly in a nearly party-line vote.
The Legislature was poised late Sunday to approve the $6.6 billion state budget for the next two years, largely adopting recommendations from Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The state’s most powerful industry is poised to come out of this legislative session the victor in a number of key battles that it asked lawmakers and Gov. Brian Sandoval to broker for them. “So far, it’s been an OK session,” a leading gaming lobbyist said.
An hour-long hearing Sunday on Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick's second attempt to clean up the live entertainment tax left some lawmakers questioning why the time was spent on a bill that the Legislature has no appetite to pass. Even Kirkpatrick acknowledged the likelihood, vowing to bring the effort back next session.
The Senate Finance Committee on Sunday unanimously approved a bill to allow the governor to appoint another representative to the seven-member board, at the same time removing the state attorney general as a voting member.
Southern Nevada legislators say they’re working hard to pass bills that would help Southern Nevadans, such as a measure to rework the way local tax dollars are divvied up. “The way the Southern Nevada legislators approached this session was fantastic,” said Brian McAnallen, vice president of government affairs with the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce. “Now we’re having conversations, moving forward on policy issues, having a Southern Nevada agenda, but we haven’t seen the end product.”
After the 2013 Legislature whispers its way to a close Monday, it will not be known as a session of the dramatic tax fight. But as tame as this session has seemed compared with past sessions, it hasn’t been without its moments of drama.
An Assembly Republican leaders said today nearly all of their members are disinclined to support the bill, meaning Democrats would not be able to meet the two-thirds requirement to pass the measure.
Sen. Joyce Woodhouse, D-Las Vegas, flew home to Las Vegas late Friday to be with her husband, who is gravely ill with liver cancer, making control of the Senate an issue in the final days of the legislative session.
Negotiations over Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $6.5 billion proposed budget entered into their final frenzied hours Friday, as lawmakers rushed to put their own mark on the state’s two-year spending plan before the session officially adjourns Monday.
Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick is no longer proposing to levy an 8 percent tax on things such as movies, gym memberships, greens fees at golf courses, ski lift tickets, and other entertainment.
Another California court date has been set for former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks on charges stemming from a car chase and police confrontation in March.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and the husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords advocated Friday for a bill mandating background checks for private party gun sales.
By a party-line vote, the Senate has passed a bill calling for an audit of the cost of prosecution, appeals and imprisonment of those sentenced to death.
The state Senate put the final touches on a bill Thursday to eventually lower the cost for cancer patients who take a pill instead of intravenous chemotherapy.
The Legislature is agreeing with Gov. Brian Sandoval to set aside additional money for the criticized Rawson-Neal Mental Hospital in Las Vegas and to divert funds to pursue a drone research project for Nevada.
An investigation that led to the unprecedented ouster of former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks earlier this year cost Nevada taxpayers nearly $95,000, more than twice initial estimates.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday defended the Public Utilities Commission — a regulatory panel he appoints — after U.S. Sen. Harry Reid described it as a "little bureaucracy" with too much power over the energy market in Nevada.
A bill to allow medical marijuana dispensaries easily passed the Senate on Wednesday. Backers said the measure, approved 17-4, establishes procedures to comply with a constitutional amendment approved by the voters in 2000 that allows the use of medical marijuana.
Enough’s enough, say state employees. As legislators begin to close the state’s next two-year budget, state employees today called for restoration of pay lost to several years of sustained salary cuts.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid lambasted the Nevada Public Utilities Commission this week, accusing the energy regulators of trying to scuttle a bill before the state Legislature that would require NV Energy to stop using coal to produce electricity.