Nevada’s 3,400 medical marijuana patients could buy their medication through licensed, state-regulated dispensaries under a bill that won unanimous Senate Judiciary Committee approval Thursday.
Politics and Government
CARSON CITY — A Nevada legislative panel has narrowly approved a bill to prevent officials in rural Pershing County from imposing its own rules and fees on the Burning Man festival staged annually on the Black Rock Desert.
A bill requiring many chain restaurants in Nevada to post calorie information on their menus won approval from an Assembly committee Wednesday.
An Assembly committee considered a measure Wednesday that would build a program to teach law enforcement officers, educators and other state officials how to deal with the unique problems faced by victims of human trafficking.
A bill to prevent entertainers ages 18 to 20 from dancing nude in Nevada strip clubs will die without a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, its chairman said Thursday.
Las Vegas truck driver Sergio Lemus was honored in the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday for driving 5.2 million miles without an accident.
A bill to repeal the state law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets again has died in the Nevada Legislature, this time because its sponsor, Sen. Don Gustavson, pulled it from consideration.
Nevada lawmakers continue their drive for anti-sex trafficking legislation by passing the session’s most comprehensive bill on the subject Tuesday.
Clark County motorists could end up paying nearly 10 cents more for each gallon of gas in a few years if the Legislature gives the County Commission power to boost its fuel taxes.
CARSON CITY — Newly developed drugs that can take the place of intravenous chemotherapy treatments to fight cancer are on the market, but the cost to patients can run into the thousands of dollars a month.
CARSON CITY — Fire chiefs in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas should meet for coffee with their city managers instead of asking the Legislature to change city charters, two state lawmakers said Monday.
Four more candidates applied for the vacant Assembly District 17 seat in the Legislature Monday, bringing the total number of applicants to seven.
A few legislators got taken on April Fools’ Day by whoppers told by David Byerman, secretary of the Senate.
Nevada lawmakers are picking up the pace, trying to jam hundreds of bills through committees before a Friday deadline turns their pet legislation into pixie dust.
The public cannot see a report that led to the expulsion of Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks, the Legislative Counsel Bureau has decided.