A bill to ban involuntary microchipping of people, unanimously passed earlier this month by the Assembly, ran into a skeptical Senate committee Friday where members raised concerns that its prohibitions were too broad.
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Specialty license plates are a big hit in Nevada and various charities benefit from many of the plates mounted to vehicles statewide.
Democratic and Republican leaders from both houses Wednesday gave similar and largely conciliatory assessments of lawmakers’ efforts to pass a combined 180 bills Tuesday to meet a deadline for first house passage — a cutoff that saw just 18 bills fail to advance.
A bill that would ban bump stocks and give local governments more authority over gun control won approval in the Assembly Tuesday, one of nearly 180 bills that passed in the Senate or Assembly ahead of an end-of-day deadline.
A bill that would add asthma medication to Nevada’s prescription drug transparency law was approved by the state Senate Thursday.
Senate and Assembly lawmakers took up more than 80 bills Tuesday in their busiest floor sessions to date.
Democrats and Republicans saw the same number of bills perish last week after Friday’s deadline for legislation to move beyond out of committee.
As Nevada lawmakers weigh an outright ban on marriage before age 18, data from the state’s two most populous counties dating to 1999 show similarities among the very youngest marriage applicants.
A measure strengthening Nevada public records laws, backed by information access advocates but worrisome to government agencies fearing new penalties, survived a pending legislative deadline for action Friday and will get more work in another committee.
Nevada lawmakers in the Legislature are considering a bill that would require some employers to offer a week’s worth of paid time off to workers.