CARSON CITY — A bill changing rules for qualifying questions for the ballot won state Senate approval Sunday despite arguments by a lawmaker who said it was improved but still could interfere with Nevadans’ constitutional rights.
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CARSON CITY — Look ahead from this legislative session to the next, and you see a gaping abyss.
CARSON CITY — Only a handful of spectators watched Sunday night as the Assembly voted 28-14 to override Gov. Jim Gibbons’ veto of a bill that establishes a domestic partnership law in Nevada. That vote, with the Senate’s 14-7 rejection of the veto Saturday, makes Senate Bill 283 a law that takes effect on Oct. 1.
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CARSON CITY — The state Senate finished passing the budget through the Legislature over the objections of Gov. Jim Gibbons and made Gibbons the most overridden governor in Nevada history on Sunday.
CARSON CITY — Gambling and tourism industry lobbyists succeeded Sunday in 11th-hour efforts to get the Nevada Assembly to endorse a partial rollback of a voter-approved ban on smoking in public places.
The state Senate on Sunday passed a bill that would give limited collective bargaining rights to state workers.