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.
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The state Assembly on Tuesday voted in favor of a bill that would abolish the death penalty in the Nevada.
The Legislative Building in Carson City will reopen to the public Thursday, the state announced.
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.
Assemblywoman Annie Black, R-Mesquite, doesn’t like limits on what she’s allowed to say on the Assembly floor, and isn’t shy about saying so.
Nevada’s attorney general and lieutenant governor want to end the death penalty, but Clark County’s district attorney is pushing for the state’s first execution since 2006.
With a likely water shortage looming next year, regulators in Southern Nevada are setting their turf-removal sights on the next big group of water hogs.
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.
Officials of Las Vegas’ pro sports teams say adding a proposed live entertainment tax to game tickets could deter other leagues from joining the market.
Two bills are threatening to change the way protesting is conducted in Nevada and although sponsors say it’s targeted only at violent protesters, local activists fear the repercussions.
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.
A bill that would have called for the gradual reduction in the use of natural gas no longer has year-by-year targets, but still drew opposition from utilities in Nevada.
Lawmakers heard bills about reforming the eviction process and building more affordable housing in Nevada as a Friday deadline for passing bills from committees approached.
A scaled back effort at civil asset forfeiture reform in Nevada, a perennial but habitually unsuccessful legislative objective, again met opposition in committee Monday from law enforcement.
Lawmakers in Carson City will be working hard to meet an April 9 deadline for bills to pass out of committee or be considered dead for the rest of the session.