Rooftop solar companies driven out of the state when state utility regulators adopted less generous payments for the excess electricity are hopeful that Assembly Bill 405 will bring thousands of jobs back to Nevada.
2017 Legislature
Several thorny issues remain as the clock ticks in Week 16 of the 2017 session.
Candidates for the office of North Las Vegas constable would have to obtain law enforcement certification before getting on the ballot under an amendment made to Senate Bill 250 on Friday.
Senate Bill 265 would impose some of the toughest regulations on pharmaceutical companies in the nation.
Voting centers where any eligible voter in a county or city can cast a ballot on Election Day won partisan approval Friday in the Nevada Senate.
The Senate Commerce, Labor and Energy Committee voted 4-3 on party lines to approve Senate Joint Resolution 6. It now goes to the full Senate. It also must pass the Assembly to move forward.
Those requirements were shifted from SB169 to Assembly Bill 97, which has other provisions overseeing forensic kits for victims of sexual assault.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Friday unanimously passed a bill that puts more protections in place for people under the care of guardians.
The devices require an offender to breath into a device that measures the alcohol content on a person’s breath. If alcohol is measured, their vehicle will not start.
A budget subcommittee on Friday approved $346 million in state construction, maintenance and planning projects for the upcoming biennium, including funding for a northern Nevada veterans home and a new engineering building at University of Nevada, Reno.
Members of the Legislative Commission voted Friday to make Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson, D-Las Vegas, the chairman of the panel for the coming two years.
Here are three things to watch on day 103 of the 2017 legislative session:
The Senate on a party-line vote passed a bill Thursday requiring schools and higher education campuses to pay full prevailing wages on construction projects.
A bill requiring doctors and other health care providers to undergo continuing education on suicide prevention won unanimous approval Thursday in the Nevada Senate.
People who commit felonies against first responders and target them because of the jobs they do would face enhanced penalties under a bill introduced Thursday in the state Senate.
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