The Legislature’s latest effort to end its constitutionally set biennial sessions and begin meeting every year started its latest journey through the Statehouse on Wednesday.
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Based in Reno, Bill Dentzer covers government and politics and related state news out of the Review-Journal’s capital bureau in Carson City. He joined the RJ in October 2018 after similar assignments at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah and the Idaho Statesman in Boise. He earlier covered state and local government in his home state of New York, where he graduated from Hamilton College.
A bill to require ward-by-ward voting for city council members in all of Nevada’s cities – primarily a response to how the city of Henderson elects its leaders – looks like it’s heading for reworking after getting a rough welcome in committee Tuesday.
The Washoe County Commission Tuesday chose Greg Smith, a retired labor union apprenticeship coordinator and widower of a state senator, to succeed Sparks Assemblyman Mike Sprinkle, who resigned from the Legislature March 14 amid claims of sexual harassment .
Lawmakers Friday took up three bills related to strengthening laws and protecting victims of sex trafficking and prostitution, passing two out of committee to the full Assembly for floor votes.
A bill to let under-16 charter school students drive to school raised concerns about safety and fairness and drew opposition from urban-area lawmakers in a hearing before the Assembly Growth and Infrastructure committee Thursday.
A bipartisan pair of state senators Thursday introduced a bill to ban prostitution outright in Nevada, the only state where it’s legal.
A Nevada Senate bill aimed primarily at strengthening the rights of police officers under investigation for misconduct will get revisions over concerns that it limits public access to body camera footage and tips the balance too far in favor of officers involved in internal affairs proceedings.
A divided legislative committee on Wednesday moved Nevada’s proposed physician-assisted suicide law to the Senate for a vote with amendments, one of which would bar the use of telehealth in connection the law’s provisions.
Nevada could follow California in banning civil settlements that conceal an accused sexual abuser’s offenses by demanding silence from the accuser as part of settlement terms.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus slapped Trump administration moves on plutonium shipments and nuclear waste storage in Nevada, congratulated state lawmakers on gun control efforts and criticized sheriffs who’ve said they won’t enforce them in remarks to the Legislature on Tuesday.
A proposed rewrite of Nevada’s abortion laws has been revised to leave in place existing parental notification requirements for minors while still amending informed consent provisions and removing from statute outdated criminal penalties.
A bipartisan bill that would remove the statute of limitations on reporting and prosecuting sex crimes where DNA evidence has been collected is running into a partial snag due to the lack of a statewide standard on how long unprocessed rape kits must be retained.
After a week that saw a second state lawmaker resign for impropriety – in the latest instance, amid sexual harassment claims – legislators return to work Monday for what will be the longest day of this session to date. Monday is the deadline for bills sponsored by individual lawmakers to be introduced.
Backed by a bipartisan and diverse coalition of government transparency advocates and news organizations, a newly introduced bill is looking to add some bite to Nevada’s toothless public records laws.
A bill forbidding Nevada hotels and motels from giving law enforcement agencies details on the immigration status, citizenship or nationality of their guests without a warrant is likely to get some tweaks, partly to address concerns that it might discourage crime reporting.
