Politics and Government
A proposal to ban the use of insurance credit scoring systems to set premiums and deny, approve or continue insurance coverage drew support Wednesday from the Assembly Commerce and Labor Committee. Members expressed concern that low-income residents and minorities may be getting low scores, resulting in higher premiums or their being denied auto and homeowner insurance.
An education reform bill would allow bad teachers to remain too long in classrooms before being fired, Assemblyman Ira Hansen told other members of the Assembly Education Committee on Wednesday. Hansen objected to provisions in an education reform plan that would set up a system of merit pay and create policies to dismiss poor employees.
Carlos Hernandez, 18, told the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Wednesday someone stole his Social Security number and his name when he was a child, something he didn’t discover until his application for credit to buy a car was rejected. He asked committee members to approve Assembly Bill 83, whch change the statute of limitations on crimes like identify theft.
A bill that would boost the minimum vehicle insurance level sparked legislators’ fears Tuesday that the higher premiums would harm poor people and force more drivers to go uninsured. The bill was proposed by Assemblyman William Horne, who was injured in an accident in which the other driver had only the minimum liability insurance required by law.
A government-affairs executive has left the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce to open a business, leaving the trade group without two important executives during the state’s legislative session.
Local government lobbyists and legislators objected Tuesday to a bill that would allow the attorney general’s office to fine members of public bodies as much as $500 for violating the open meeting law. But some of them didn’t object to the fine as much as they objected to a “drafting error” that failed to include that before the fine could be levied it must be proven the violation was “willful.”
Two major bond rating agencies have downgraded the financially stressed Clark County School District as it prepares for Thursday’ s refinancing sale of $110 million in school construction bonds.
CARSON CITY — Carson City residents described a darker side to energy-smart solar panels and wind turbines at an Assembly committee hearing Monday.
