The Assembly education committee unanimously approved sending the Clark County School District reorganization bill to a floor vote.
2017 Legislature
A resolution restating the Legislature’s opposition to any effort to license Yucca Mountain as a high-level nuclear waste dump was approved Monday by an Assembly panel.
The Assembly Labor and Commerce Committee on Monday heard Assembly Bill 431, which would nearly triple the number of barrels a craft brewery can produce annually.
A Nevada Senate committee heard a bill Monday to undo a collective bargaining law that employee groups complained unfairly harms public workers.
Two Nevada freshmen in the U.S. House of Representatives return to the Silver State this week to address joint sessions of the state Senate and Assembly.
The Senate Judiciary committee took up a pair of bills Monday aimed at protecting vulnerable Nevadans who are under guardianships.
Lovers of Nevada’s great outdoors and seemingly endless room to roam turned out Monday to support a bill declaring the last Saturday in September as Public Lands Day.
Offenders on parole and probation who are struggling to to comply with their release terms may get a new chance at turning around their lives.
Senate Bill 425 would freeze the annual caps for property tax increases at 3 percent for residential properties and 8 percent for commercial properties.
In August 2014, California emerged as the first state to legislatively ban single-use plastic bags in major retail stores. Nevada might follow suit.
State and local government job applicants would not have to disclose arrests or convictions on job applications under a bill heard Monday by the Assembly Government Affairs Committee.
If lawmakers had their way, every Nevada school would teach financial literacy, diversity studies and the benefits of organ donations. High school wouldn’t start until 9:30 a.m. and every student would have access to dual credit courses for free.
It’s make or break time for lawmakers pushing their bills in the 2017 session of the Nevada Legislature.
It may be deadline week for Nevada legislative committees to act on bills, but that isn’t stopping lawmakers from loading up the calendar with hearings on dozens of measures introduced last month.
Nevada lawmakers talked about a range of issues in the ninth week of the legislative session that included juvenile justice reforms, stronger oversight of higher education, fracking and bestiality.
