The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved Senate Bill 143, sending it to the full body for a final vote before being sent to Gov. Steve Sisolak’s desk, who has long signaled his intent to sign it into law.
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The department is pushing for Assembly Bill 74 in the Nevada Legislature this session, which would require anyone who buys, sells or trades antlers harvested from a big game animal to have a state license.
Nevada’s stalled gun background check law took another step on it’s all-but-sure path toward becoming reality Wednesday as the state Senate approved a legislative tweak to the language.
The National Rifle Association dubbed it a “secret” meeting, but hundreds of gun rights supporters showed up to express their opposition to a bill that would implement Nevada’s stalled expanded background checks initiative.
New Nevada Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson has come a long way since he was the freshman “getting into all kinds of trouble” some 16 years ago.
Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, the man accused of killing four people in Northern Nevada last month, will be transferred to Washoe County next week to face the murder charges levied against him.
Senate Bill 135, introduced on the Senate floor Thursday, it would require the state’s executive branch to negotiate with labor organizations representing state workers on issues such as wages, benefits and other employment terms.
The goal is to help prevent those who use the highly criticized loans from getting trapped in a “cycle of poverty,” said the bill’s sponsor, Assemblywoman Heidi Swank, D-Las Vegas.
Morgan said in an interview after the hearing that state regulators deal with illegal gaming operations “all the time,” and the bill would give them another tool to combat those kinds of activities.
Recently announced Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will hit the Silver State this month as part of her early campaign stump around the country.
Nevada is appealing a federal judge’s ruling the stop the transfer of the nuclear material from South Carolina to a federal site north of Las Vegas.
Monday marked a historic day in Nevada as the first female-majority Legislature in the history of the U.S. was sworn into office to kick of the 80th meeting of the Legislature.
With a near-supermajority in Legislature and control of the governor’s office, Democrats hold nearly all the cards as the 2019 Legislative session begins Monday.
With nearly $1 billion more at their disposal over the next two years, Nevada lawmakers are likely to devote much of the next four months looking at how to allocate that windfall to the two largest categories of state government spending: education and health care.
In the last 13 months, Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas, Henderson and Reno have hired the Eglet Prince law firm to sue opioid manufacturers.
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