CARSON CITY — The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday for a plan that would allow for specialized courts for military veterans charged with nonviolent crimes while struggling to readjust to civilian life.
Politics and Government
CARSON CITY — The Assembly voted Wednesday for a bill aimed at blocking unwarranted use of high-priced consultants by state government agencies.
CARSON CITY — A legislative budget panel voted as expected Tuesday to reject Gov. Jim Gibbons’ recommendation and keep the old Nevada State Prison, which dates to the 1870s, open for the next two years.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly panel was asked Tuesday to back a bill that would streamline the process for restoring civil rights to criminal offenders after they have paid their debts to society.
CARSON CITY — A Senate panel was urged Tuesday to support an Assembly-approved plan that would help prevent identity theft by making less credit card information available on printed receipts.
CARSON CITY — Don’t count on Nevada joining the movement to elect the president by popular vote anytime soon.
CARSON CITY — A bill extending the legal deadline for notifying school district employees that they will be rehired or laid off for the next school year was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate panel was asked Tuesday to back a watered-down plan, already approved by the Assembly, that would require government agencies that employ lobbyists to submit reports explaining terms of their contracts.
CARSON CITY — Changes to speed up workplace safety training for new employees, in efforts to reduce on-the-job deaths and injuries, prompted questions Monday in a Nevada Assembly committee hearing.
CARSON CITY — About 340 lawyers have volunteered to serve as mediators to work with lenders to keep Nevadans from losing their homes to foreclosure, Nevada Chief Justice Jim Hardesty said Monday.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada assemblyman said Friday that he was not trying to get back at any particular governor with his bill that would require a legislative committee to review and confirm some gubernatorial appointments.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Assembly advanced a plan Friday to create a database that would make it easier to find low-income housing.
CARSON CITY — Wedding chapel lobbyists and advocates for programs to stop domestic violence clashed Friday over a bill to help fund those programs by adding $5 to the cost of a Nevada marriage license.
CARSON CITY — With copper prices on the rise again, scrap metal dealers and utilities urged senators Thursday to pass a bill designed to make locating and prosecuting scrap metal thieves easier.
