Who are the players behind Nevada’s booming legal marijuana industry that saw more than $400 million in sales in its first year? We could soon find out under a new amendment to a Senate bill approved by lawmakers Thursday.
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The Assembly Committee on Government Affairs will hear the bill on Friday. While the museum would be recognized as a state museum under the legislation, it would be privately funded, a supporter said.
Assembly Bill 456 would gradually increase Nevada’s minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2024, although some progressive activists were hoping for more.
Significantly more transparency could be coming to Nevada’s marijuana industry under a newly proposed bill amendment unveiled Tuesday.
Lawmakers heard a heated debate over the state’s reliance on cash bail system, with some arguing that bail should be a last resort for certain types of cases.
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said Wednesday that Energy Secretary Rick Perry promised to give her a firm timeline as to when the weapons-grade plutonium that was secretly shipped into Nevada last year will leave the state.
New laws to tighten Nevada’s notoriously loose campaign finance statutes could be coming, in the wake of revelations that elected officials used campaign accounts to fund personal expenses, businesses or trips out of the country.
State lawmakers introduced 141 new bills Monday in what was the busiest day yet in the 120-day Nevada Legislature. And they are expected to introduce at least that many Tuesday.
Poor record keeping processes and a lack of state oversight of the legal marijuana industry cost the state at least $500,000 in missed tax revenue, according to an audit released earlier this month.
Assemblyman Mike Sprinkle, D-Sparks, resigned his seat Thursday after complaints of sexual harassment were filed against him.