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.
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There’s a $3 billion hole in the Nevada budget. Or is it $2.2 billion?
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.
CARSON CITY — A bill that would ease the terms of a voter-approved measure that banned smoking in many Nevada bars and other public places was approved on a 6-1 Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
CARSON CITY — Proposals dealing with hybrid cars, energy-efficiency standards and solar power were among green energy bills endorsed Tuesday by a key Nevada Senate committee.
CARSON CITY — Clark County residents could start paying higher sales taxes in July 2011 to hire more police officers under a bill approved Tuesday by a key Senate panel.
CARSON CITY — Accounting changes by Nevada lawmakers created a revenue shortfall estimate of $2.2 billion that, while grim, is less than a nearly $3 billion gap to close if government services stay at current levels, the state’s budget chief said Monday.
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