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Reid To Address Legislature On Monday
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid will address a joint session of the Senate and Assembly during the third week of the Nevada Legislature that begins Monday. The Democratic Senate Majority Leader is scheduled to...
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Speak Out On School Budget Cuts
An Assembly panel has approved a bill allowing school districts to use more money from their bonds for building new schools and improving old ones. It would thwart plans by Governor Brian Sandoval to...
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Nevada Legislature Enters 5th Week
School reforms, prisons, concealed weapons, water rights, gender identity and more budget reviews are scheduled to be discussed as the Nevada Legislature enters the fifth week of a 120-day session...
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Bill to End Early Voting
(Carson City, NV) — One lawmaker has introduced a bill to end early voting in Nevada. Mesquite Assemblyman Cresent Hardy says an unnamed group asked him to introduce the measure. Hardy claims early...
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Lawmakers Introduce Flood of Bills
(Carson City, NV) — Yesterday was the last day for lawmakers to introduce their own bills in the Legislature. More than 200 bills were submitted, including one that would raise taxes on mining,...
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Bill Would Give Unclaimed Casino Winnings To State
(Carson City, NV) — Unclaimed winnings from cashless slot machines could go to the state, under a bill introduced in the Legislature. It can happen quite often: a gambler sits down at a slot machine,...
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Stronger Seat Belt Law Considered
(Carson City, NV) — More testimony is scheduled tomorrow on a stronger seat belt law. The Senate Transportation Committee is considering a measure that would allow law enforcement officers to stop a...
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Gov Threatens to Veto School Bill
(Carson City, NV) — Governor Brian Sandoval has threatened to veto a bill that would allow Nevada school districts to use money from a reserve account to build and renovate campuses. The state...
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Weighing Odds of Internet Gambling
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers today discuss a bill to allow the Silver State to take the lead on regulating the multibillion-dollar Internet poker industry. The bill calls on Nevada...
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$120m Added to State Budget
CARSON CITY, NV – Governor Brian Sandoval made the following statement this morning after the Legislature received an amendment to the Executive Budget: “This morning the State Budget Office delivered...
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Tough Talk on Taxes
(Carson City, NV) — A battle is brewing in the Legislature over taxes. Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford says Governor Brian Sandoval’s proposed two-year budget would leave the state with a...
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Lawmakers Look at Lottery
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Lifting a constitutional ban in Nevada on a state lottery will be discussed during a legislative hearing. Senate Joint Resolution 1 was proposed by the Nevada Youth...
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Looking for a Lottery
(Carson City, NV) — Several Las Vegas high school students have urged lawmakers to approve a state lottery. The students spoke before a Senate committee yesterday, saying a lottery would generate at...
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Texting Ban Moves Ahead
(Carson City, NV) — An Assembly panel has approved a bill to ban drivers from texting or chatting on cell phones. The measure would make it a fine to use a mobile phone while behind a wheel, except...
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Safety Of Athletes Debate
Photo By: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Nevada legislators are working to knock out head injuries among high school athletes. A Senate panel is taking up a bill Friday calling on school districts and the...
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Camping In Carson City For A Cause
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Tents are scattered about the grounds of the Nevada Legislature for a campout by advocates who support a Democratic tax package. The compound is being dubbed “Sandoville” — a...
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Gov. Sandoval’s Budget Under The Microscope
(Carson City, NV) — Members of Nevada legislative money committees have begun a review of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $6.5 billion general fund budget proposal. The Legislative Commission’s Budget...
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Nevada Legislators Approve Paychecks
(Carson City, NV) — State lawmakers began their first day in the Legislature by voting to get paid. Senate and Assembly members yesterday approved a bill that sets aside $15 million for salaries. Each...
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Bill Creates Student Loan Program For Unemployed
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The 2013 Nevada Legislature began discussing measures to curb the state’s unemployment problem just days into the session with a new student loans bill. The bill seeks to help...
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Lawmakers Hear Bill For 150th Anniversary Plates
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A proposal for a specialty license plate marking 150 years since Nevada became a state has had its first hearing in the Legislature. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the...
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Nevada Officials Deny Assemblyman’s Rifle Purchase
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A troubled Nevada assemblyman who has been barred from the Legislature after allegedly threatening some colleagues won’t be able to buy a gun for at least a year, and authorities...
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Arizona Lawmakers Warn Of Terrorist, Communist Plots Backed By Feds
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Republican lawmakers and activists warned of terrorist and communist plots backed by the government during a passionate hearing last week that saw one state representative joke...
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Fewer Bills Becoming Nevada Law
(Carson City, NV) — Governor Brian Sandoval has put his signature on just six bills approved by the Legislature this session. More than one-thousand bills have been introduced by lawmakers this year....
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Lawmaker Debate Mining Tax Cap
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Consequences of removing constitutional tax measures for the mining industry was the focus of lengthy debate before an Assembly panel, with the mining industry saying it would...
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Lawmakers Pass Bills In Special Session
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Sleep-deprived Nevada lawmakers quickly passed all five bills they had to deal with in a special session called overnight by Gov. Brian Sandoval. The Republican ordered the...
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Ariz. GOP Leadership Accuses Brewer Of Playing ‘Chicago Politics’ After...
PHOENIX (AP) — Ending a six-month legislative session, Arizona lawmakers endorsed a key element of President Barack Obama’s health care law in a huge political victory for Republican Gov. Jan Brewer,...
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Sandoval Completes Actions On Legislative Bills
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has finished making decisions on bills approved by the 2013 Legislature. Lawmakers passed 15 bills that were ultimately vetoed by Sandoval. The...
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Legislature Moves Toward A Digital World
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state Legislature, which has been criticized at times for hidebound plodding, is about to leap into the ’90s. After years of debate and after much of the rest of the world and...
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Legislature To Debate Winery Bans, Speed Limit
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The legislative session is a whole month away, but Nevadans can already get a sneak peak at nearly 200 bills and resolutions expected to end up before lawmakers this spring. One of the...
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Ex-Nevada Lawmaker Gets 3 Years’ Probation
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Nevada lawmaker whose arrests and expulsion from the Legislature drew intense interest two years ago has been sentenced to three years’ probation on a felony gun charge. A...
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Lawmakers Look At Live Entertainment Tax
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) _ Nevada lawmakers are taking the first step toward reworking a live entertainment tax that many complain is confusing and filled with too many exemptions. The live entertainment...
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Break Up CCSD ?
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – A Nevada panel has passed a bill attempting to break up the Clark County School District. The Assembly Education Committee unanimously passed a heavily amended version of AB...
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Uber’s Bumpy Ride
(CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – A bill that would allow for ride-hailing companies such as Uber in Nevada has failed in the state Senate. Senators on Wednesday rejected SB439, which would create regulations...
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Governor And Legislature
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval says he’s optimistic that Nevada lawmakers will reach a deal to fund the state’s budget with only slightly more than a month to go in the state...
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Lawmakers Repealing Winery Ban
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – The Nevada Senate has passed a compromise bill that repeals the state’s partial ban on wineries. The Senate voted unanimously on Saturday to approve AB4. It already passed the...
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Fending Off Foreclosure
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – Nevada lawmakers want to pull the plug on a program that helps homeowners fend off foreclosure in a sign of just how far the state has come since the Great Recession....
View ArticleState Senate Approves 50 Measures In One Day
CARSON CITY, NV (KXNT) – It can be good or bad. You can call it hardworking, or pushing agendas through as fast as possible. Whatever your take, members of the Nevada State Legislature were busy...
View ArticleAssemblyman Wheeler Elected GOP Leader
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republicans in the Legislature have elected Assemblyman Jim Wheeler as their interim Assembly minority leader. Wheeler has represented Douglas County in Assembly District 39...
View ArticleNevada Ranked Last In Education, State Officials Upset With Report
CARSON CITY, NV (KXNT) – Nearly $500 million in new categorical spending and recent academic achievement results from Nevada are not included in Education Week’s release of its 2018 Quality Counts...
View ArticleGov. Sandoval Endorses Regulations Of Drug Overdoses
CARSON CITY, NV (KXNT) – Governor Brian Sandoval recently signed a Statement of Emergency endorsing the need for emergency regulations related to the reporting of overdoses and suspected overdoses as...
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