A bill that could increase the sales tax rate in Clark County to 8.25 percent — with the extra money used to hire more police — won approval 32-9 Tuesday in the Assembly.
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A bill that would allow private equity groups to place large bets at Nevada sports books saw near unanimous support Tuesday in the Senate.
In a strictly party-line vote of 26-15, Democrats passed a bill in the Assembly on Tuesday that would require the updating of sex education courses taught in Nevada’s public schools. The bill now goes to the Senate.
CARSON CITY — In a mostly party-line vote Monday evening, Assembly Democrats voted 23-16 for a bill that would allow Nevada school boards to impose a $2 fee per month on each housing unit to raise money for vocational programs.
CARSON CITY — A measure that would legalize gay marriage in Nevada if voters approve passed the Senate late Monday on a 12-9 vote after an emotional, hourlong debate.
Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson, D-Reno, returned to the Legislature on Monday, a week after she gave birth to a daughter, Sandra, who weighed seven pounds.
CARSON CITY — As the dust begins to settle from a scuffle in the Nevada Legislature over gun control, only two substantial plans remain that would overhaul firearms policy in the state.
At the beginning of the legislative session in February, so many print and TV reporters crammed into the legislative chambers to cover the sad saga of Assemblyman Steven Brooks that regular reporters such as those with the Review-Journal stood or sat on folding chairs in the press galleries.
The estimated cost for UNLV’s proposed domed, 60,000-seat stadium is $548.4 million — the biggest chunk of the university’s $900 million stadium project, the Review-Journal has learned.
With a little more than six weeks to go in the 2013 Nevada legislative session, one thing is for sure: There’s a lot more to come and the stakes are high as most of the big issues — budgets and taxes — have yet to evolve.
A controversial constitutional amendment that would allow gay marriage in Nevada was amended Friday to include language to guarantee that religious organizations would not have to perform such unions.
Former Nevada Assemblyman John Marvel is being remembered as a gravelly-voiced cowboy with a big heart.
Nevada’s largest revenue source is losing ground because of a changing economy that has shifted from consumption of goods to consumption of services, an economist told a legislative panel on Thursday.
Soon-to-be Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson’s first public comments upon his arrival Thursday in the Legislature were that he wants to hear from his Assembly District 17 constituents who have gone with representation for most of the 2013 session.
Former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks has been indicted on a felony firearms charge stemming from an arrest in January in North Las Vegas that began a spiral leading to his expulsion from the Legislature.
