CARSON CITY — The Nevada Senate’s top Democrat told lawmakers Monday that a new program for low-risk parole violators and drug and alcohol offenders would reduce the state’s prison population and save millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
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CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio on Monday pitched the need for a state-financed tax study, noting that one hasn’t been performed in 20 years.
Nevada’s lieutenant governor asked a judge on Monday to disqualify the state attorney general, who’s prosecuting him on charges of mishandling a big college savings program, and to dismiss the charges.
CARSON CITY — The sale of novelty lighters would be outlawed in Nevada under a bill approved 28-12 Monday in the state Assembly.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers start the 11th week of their 2009 session on Monday by reviewing a plan that could hold down state costs by keeping some probation violators from serving more prison time.
CARSON CITY — It was deadline day Friday at the Legislature.
CARSON CITY — Patrons who visit Nevada’s 25 legal brothels won’t be handing over an extra $5 to cover the costs of a state tax on sex.
The Senate Taxation Committee on a 4-3 vote Thursday killed Senate Bill 369, which would have imposed the first state tax on services performed by prostitutes.
A proposal to allow a $1 billion privately funded toll lane project in Southern Nevada is expected to die today in a state legislative committee.
CARSON CITY — After hours of debate on a bill to raise Nevada’s taxes on diesel fuel by 12 cents per gallon, the state Senate Taxation Committee voted Thursday to kill the plan.
CARSON CITY — A key Senate panel voted Thursday to keep alive a solar-energy tax break measure after being told the abatements will help bring solar projects to Nevada rather than to other solar-rich states such as California and Arizona.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Assembly panel voted Thursday for a bill that would make it a felony to solicit a minor for an act of prostitution.
The dire situation faced by cancer patients whose outpatient care was cut off by University Medical Center has been in the news locally for months, but state lawmakers are now scrambling to find a solution in the wake of a report by a national news show.
CARSON CITY — Discrimination based on sexual orientation would be prohibited under a bill approved 19-2 Wednesday in the state Senate.
CARSON CITY — Some rural Nevada hospitals will fail unless legislators restore the $25 million a year in indigent accident funds that Gov. Jim Gibbons wants to take from them, a longtime county lobbyist testified Wednesday.
