While fighting a Democratic plan to stave off a scheduled decrease in the payroll tax, Republicans were also offering to vote for an increase in the state sales tax.
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2019 Legislature
Republicans have introduced a last-minute bill to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21.
A bill intended to introduce reforms to the cash bail system is now being criticized by some of its early supporters because of amendments they say make it much less meaningful.
An amendment to a bill to regulate the marijuana industry now outlaws marijuana lounges in Nevada and even prohibits local governments from allowing them.
What looked like consensus over a water-rights bill a month ago has once again devolved into discord in the Nevada Legislature, where the bill may die before a Friday deadline.
The signature gun control measure of the 2019 Nevada Legislative session is being changed to remove a provision that would have allowed counties to pass their own gun control laws.
After Nevada lawmakers used marijuana excise tax money to boost per-pupil funding in schools, they were at pains to find money to fund school safety and the popular Millennium Scholarship.
A bill that would have transformed traffic offenses from misdemeanor crimes into civil infractions in Nevada was pulled by its sponsor.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and legislative Democrats are advancing a two-pronged plan to add money to schools: First, use a 10 percent excise tax on recreational marijuana sales, and second, authorize county governments to raise the local sales tax.
A debate in the Nevada Legislature over a proposed Office of New Americans turned into an argument over immigration policies on Monday.
Facing one of the worst affordable housing shortages in the country, Nevada lawmakers are hoping the 2019 Legislature can mark a turning point.
A bill that would make the names of marijuana business owners public in Nevada cleared the state Assembly Tuesday, and now heads to the governor’s desk where it is expected to be signed.
A bill from state Democrats that would roll back changes made to Nevada’s prevailing wage laws by Republicans in 2015 was approved by state Assembly Tuesday on a party-line vote.
On the day set aside for protecting the environment, Nevada took another step towards reducing its own carbon footprint.
The Nevada Assembly approved a ban on private prisons in Nevada on a party line vote Wednesday evening.