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Nevadans need a law to require members of state boards and commissions to provide their email addresses and phone numbers, a state legislator said Monday.
The Obama administration streamlined the development of 17 vast tracts across the West, including five in Nevada, for large-scale solar projects.
Days after Buddy the chimpanzee was shot and killed following an escape in northwest Las Vegas, a state senator announced Monday he will introduce a bill in the 2013 legislative session to prohibit Nevadans from keeping chimps, large wild cats and other exotic animals as pets.
As he has done in every Legislature since 1997, Sen. Don Gustavson intends to introduce a bill next year to repeal Nevada’s 40-year-old law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets.
State Demographer Jeff Hardcastle told a legislative panel Wednesday that the population of Nevada, once a young person’s state, is rapidly aging and will require state government to spend more on care for older people, especially those with dementia, in coming years.
The number of Nevadans with permission to use medical marijuana has skyrocketed to 3,430, the state Health Division announced Monday.
In a move aimed at preventing a Jerry Sandusky type sex crime scandal from occurring in Nevada, Assemblyman Pete Livermore said Thursday he will introduce a bill that could bring more reporting of sex crimes against children.
The 2013 Legislature will consider a proposal to adopt legal ways to reduce the illegal immigration population in Nevada and another to let election workers request photo identification before voters can cast ballots.
A bill allowing registered medical marijuana users in Nevada to acquire the outlawed drug is one of the 144 bills being drawn up for consideration at the 2013 Legislature.