What looked like consensus over a water-rights bill a month ago has once again devolved into discord in the Nevada Legislature, where the bill may die before a Friday deadline.
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Nevada could soon become the latest to pledge to give its Electoral College votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote, even if another candidate gets the most votes in the state.
A bill that would restore voting rights to felons in Nevada is on its way to Gov. Steve Sisolak’s desk, after the state Senate approved the measure on a party-line vote Wednesday.
The Pupil-Centered Funding Plan, which was unveiled last week, calls for a complete rewrite of the state’s current funding formula.
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 past week in Carson City taught us that you can’t promise the world without the tools to deliver. And so far, Nevada lawmakers don’t have the funds to fix public education.
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.
After Nevada lawmakers used marijuana excise tax money to boost per-pupil funding in schools, they were at pains to find money to fund school safety and the popular Millennium Scholarship.
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.
Gov. Steve Sisolak signed bills Wednesday aimed at protecting patients with pre-existing conditions and helping them avoid high emergency-room bills for out-of-network hospitals.
A bill that would have transformed traffic offenses from misdemeanor crimes into civil infractions in Nevada was pulled by its sponsor.
A measure to prevent patients from being surprised with huge, out-of-network bills passed the Legislature on Tuesday and is headed to Gov. Steve Sisolak for a signature.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and legislative Democrats are advancing a two-pronged plan to add money to schools: First, use a 10 percent excise tax on recreational marijuana sales, and second, authorize county governments to raise the local sales tax.
A debate in the Nevada Legislature over a proposed Office of New Americans turned into an argument over immigration policies on Monday.
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