Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick introduced her long-awaited Nevada Entertainment and Admissions Tax bill Wednesday that would levy an 8 percent fee on virtually all admissions, including the tickets to your local movie theater.
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Two men affected respectively with HIV and hepatitis C joined health advocates Wednesday in backing a bill that could result in needle exchange programs for Nevada drug addicts.
Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Wednesday that he is proposing to direct $8 million in additional money received from a tobacco settlement to state mental health needs.
Actor Nicolas Cage on Tuesday urged Nevada lawmakers to approve tax incentives for making movies in Nevada.
CARSON CITY — All Nevada businesses that offer live entertainment — including brothels, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the massive Electric Daisy Carnival and Burning Man — would have to pay an 8 percent tax under a bill to be introduced Wednesday.
Some members of the Nevada Supreme Court seemed skeptical Tuesday when an attorney for the state public employee pension plan said information sought by a Reno newspaper about individual retirees cannot be easily generated.
Las Vegas police and prosecutors testified against a bill Tuesday that would allow medical marijuana users to drive and not be prosecuted for impaired driving just because they have some marijuana in their blood.
CARSON CITY — A bill increasing campaign reporting requirements and clarifying what gifts can be accepted by lawmakers and other public officers saw the “Armani suit” provision raised in a hearing Tuesday.
The lawyer for former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks, charged in a car chase and a police confrontation in California, asked a judge Teusday that his client be enrolled in a court program that will push him into mental health treatment.
State Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson said Tuesday his 75-page bill to tax the mining industry another $300 million a year starting in 2015 remains the only viable tax proposal with a chance to pass before the Legislature adjourns June 3.
Each weekday floor session of the Assembly and state Senate has opened with a prayer from ministers, priests, rabbis, Native Americans and, this session, even Teji Malik, a spiritual leader of the Sikh faith in Las Vegas.
With just one month left in the legislative session, Nevadans are waiting for the big ones to be introduced: tax bills from Democrats, Republicans.
Nevada lawmakers want to take a closer look at the cost of keeping the death penalty in the state’s criminal punishment arsenal.
A bill moving its way through the Nevada Legislature would cap the cost of copies of public records at 50 cents per page.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie told a panel of state lawmakers Thursday that a hike in the local sales tax of .15 cents will fill a $30 million hole in his budget and ensure 300 current police officers continue to patrol the streets of Southern Nevada.
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