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Nevada Legislature finally gets to work on major budget bills

A sure sign that the Nevada Legislature is on track to adjourn by a Monday deadline emerged Thursday when some of the half dozen budget bills needed to fund the operation of state government for the two years beginning July 1 were introduced.

Sandoval signs bill fixing infamous crimes against nature law

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Thursday signed Senate Bill 388, updating Nevada’s “infamous crimes against nature” law and ending discrimination against consenting same-gender partners.

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Nevada bans dog breed discrimination

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Nevadans can no longer be legally fired for being communists

Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed a bill that removes archaic language from a 1950s law passed during the Cold War era of constant tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Nevada movement draws the line on human trafficking

A modern-day abolitionist movement that includes Las Vegas law enforcement officials, the state attorney general’s office, legislators and grass-roots activists wants to reclassify the pimps who dominate the world’s oldest profession as modern-day slave traders.

Brooks’ ouster from Assembly cost Nevada taxpayers $94,000

It cost Nevada taxpayers $94,508.12 for the legal and investigative work in the review that led to the ouster of former Assemblyman Steven Brooks from his District 17 seat, documents show.

Nevada sex trafficking bill appears headed to final OK

Despite concerns that customers who mistake an underage prostitute for an adult could end up in prison for life, a sex trafficking bill now appears on its way to final approval in the Nevada Senate later this week.

Nevada Senate GOP leader introduced his own gun bill

A debate in the Legislature over how to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill took a twist Tuesday when Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson introduced his own competing bill to help accomplish that goal.