A joint legislative subcommittee Thursday rejected a new proposal to double the number of inmates Nevada will send to out-of-state prisons because of a looming bed shortage.
2017 Legislature
A bill that would instill stiffer penalties for reckless drivers was unanimously passed Thursday — after it was amended to soften the punishment.
A Legislative budget subcommittee on Thursday signed off on a big chunk of the public schools budget for the coming two years, voting to include $63 million in revenue from a new 10 percent retail tax on recreational marijuana as proposed by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The Senate Transportation Committee wants to send left-lane slowpokes back to school.
Here are three things to watch on day 102 of the 2017 legislative session.
State senators split along party lines Wednesday to approve a resolution expressing support for the designation of two new national monuments in Nevada.
A scaled-back, less-expensive plan to provide more money to certain Nevada students was unveiled Wednesday.
Reforms passed in 2015 to block Nevada legislators from playing the gimme, gimme, gimme game are on the chopping block, courtesy of Assembly Democrats and Republicans.
Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute princess who served as a translator for the U.S. military in the 1800s and spent much of her life negotiating between different cultures, will have her own special day in Nevada.
The Nevada Senate gave final legislative approval Wednesday to a resolution strongly opposing any attempts by Congress to make Yucca Mountain the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump.
The Nevada Assembly unanimously voted Wednesday on a bill that could spark increased growth of the state’s fiber optic network.
The Nevada Senate took another first step Wednesday toward annual legislative sessions, passing a resolution to start the lengthy process.
A bill to gradually raise Nevada’s hourly minimum wage won approval Wednesday on a partisan vote in the state Senate.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill Wednesday prohibiting mental health professionals from conducting sexual conversion therapy on minors.
Nevada lawmakers are reworking legislation to create a clemency board to replace the state’s pardons board.