CARSON CITY — Week 7 of the Nevada Legislature starts today with a marathon day that will include a student protest over higher education cuts and the first nighttime floor meetings of the 2011 session as legislators rush to meet the deadline for individual bill introductions.
After failing for five straight sessions to repeal the state’s 39-year-old motorcycle helmet law, Sen. Don Gustavson has developed a new, perhaps winnable, strategy: Let them take off their helmets, and they will come.
Mining companies in Nevada could lose tax deductions worth more than $2 billion under a bill making its way to the state Legislature.
Gina Griesen, president of Nevada Voters for Animals, has fought for years to stop animal abuse in Las Vegas.
So it’s no surprise that she wants state legislators to approve a bill that would make it a felony to kill, torture or maliciously injure an animal.
CARSON CITY If Nevada’s colleges and universities allowed concealed weapon permit holders to carry guns on campus it might have prevented two rapes and a murder, a sexual assault survivor told state lawmakers Friday.
CARSON CITY — Growing older in Nevada may be getting more difficult as the state’s strained finances affect programs designed to keep seniors out of nursing homes and keep property tax payments low, members of a legislative money subcommittee were told Wednesday.
