An amended version of a sweeping gun-control law was approved by a Nevada legislative committee Wednesday.
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As lawmakers focus on bills to enact the state’s two-year budget, plenty of policy measures — from collective bargaining for state employees to marijuana regulation — await action in Carson City.
Lawmakers approve a resolution opposing the Air Force’s push to expand its bombing range farther into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge north of Las Vegas.
The sponsor of a public-records reform bill says he’s not giving up yet, although the bill has yet to have a vote and the 2019 session ends on June 3.
The Senate voted 13 to 8 Monday to extend the fee, which was supposed to end next year, through June 2022.
SB287 is stalled in Carson City and that’s bad news for Nevada taxpayers, who often are left powerless when they can’t get public records they need.
Senate Democrats introduced a new bill Monday that ties revenue from the tax extension directly to education funding.
Nevada lawmakers passed Senate Bill 179, which liberalizes abortion rules in the state, even as a number of other states in the nation are passing laws to restrict the practice.
The Senate gave final approval Monday to a bill reversing 2015 Republican-backed changes to state prevailing wage laws.
The signature gun control measure of the 2019 Nevada Legislative session is being changed to remove a provision that would have allowed counties to pass their own gun control laws.
The Nevada Legislature passed a few bills on Thursday, but most of the work took place in committees as lawmakers worked to pass bills ahead of Friday’s bill-passage deadline.
A bill that would have transformed traffic offenses from misdemeanor crimes into civil infractions in Nevada was pulled by its sponsor.
Nevada state Senate Democrats on Monday unveiled a long-awaited proposal to revamp the state’s decades-old school funding formula, presenting a plan that would go into effect in two years.
Nevada lawmakers will tackle affordable housing, recognizing gay marriage, a special office for immigrant affairs and making traffic violations civil offenses and not crimes.
Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a bill that he says “ushers in a new era of transparency that will benefit the industry and the public.”