One signature bill died and the ghost of another sprung back to life this week as the state Legislature moves into its final month of session.
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Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a revived effort to establish a public health insurance option in the state aimed at helping some of Nevada’s 350,000 uninsured residents get health coverage.
Legislative committees will start meeting again in earnest next week following a bill deadline that required bills to pass from Assembly to Senate and vice versa.
Nevada’s Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavkse said Wednesday her office’s just-completed review of the election found no evidence for the state GOP’s claims.
Since the start of the 2021 session. 56 percent of votes on bills have been unanimous, with just about 12 percent breaking down on party lines, an analysis shows.
There wasn’t exactly a line in Carson City after the Legislative Building was opened to the public for the first time this session after being closed to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
Touching on one of 2020’s biggest domestic issues, the Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would reform the rules for police use of force.
Bills that would abolish the death penalty, ban “ghost guns,” and allow for cannabis consumption lounges were among dozens of bills approved by lawmakers on Friday.
Bills to make mail-in voting a permanent feature of Nevada’s elections and to hold a presidential primary election before any other state passed out of an Assembly committee on Thursday.
A bill limiting how local law enforcement agencies interact with federal authorities in immigration cases passed out of legislative committee Wednesday on a party-line vote.