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.
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A bill to let under-16 charter school students drive to school raised concerns about safety and fairness and drew opposition from urban-area lawmakers in a hearing before the Assembly Growth and Infrastructure committee Thursday.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke will make his first visit to Nevada this weekend.
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.
A Nevada Senate bill aimed primarily at strengthening the rights of police officers under investigation for misconduct will get revisions over concerns that it limits public access to body camera footage and tips the balance too far in favor of officers involved in internal affairs proceedings.
A divided legislative committee on Wednesday moved Nevada’s proposed physician-assisted suicide law to the Senate for a vote with amendments, one of which would bar the use of telehealth in connection the law’s provisions.
A bill that would have required insurance companies to pay for out-of-network care for Nevadans living more than 25 miles from an in-network provider was gutted Wednesday after the sponsor described it as unworkable as written.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is pressuring the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to enforce a rule that would protect borrowers from abusive lending.
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.
A new federal proposal, the Rebuild America’s Schools Act, would provide $100 billion for infrastructure improvements at schools across the country.