Shocked and saddened lawmakers eulogized Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson Monday as they grappled with pushing into the final weeks of the 2019 session without a beloved colleague.
2019 Legislature
Residents moving to the Silver State from U.S. territories are hit with a surprise when they try getting a Nevada driver’s license.
The Legislature begins its final month in session Monday with Senate and Assembly finance committees working to resolve budget differences and close budgets while bills that have passed in one house move through their second round of committee hearings.
Facing one of the worst affordable housing shortages in the country, Nevada lawmakers are hoping the 2019 Legislature can mark a turning point.
Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson, a champion for education and homelessness initiatives, died Saturday morning in Carson City. The North Las Vegas lawmaker took ill in the capital midweek. He was 51.
A charitable organization that rescues abused and injured wild horses has lost its source of state funding for a second time, prompting Nevada lawmakers to propose a bill aimed at addressing such cases.
A bill to cap funding for a popular private-school scholarship program — passed by the Assembly last month on a party-line vote — got its second legislative hearing Thursday, again drawing parents of current or would-be recipients to oppose the proposed limit.
The loosely affiliated anti-government extremists known commonly as sovereign citizens are the “largest terroristic threat” facing Nevada, according to Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford.
CARSON CITY – A revised state revenue forecast gives lawmakers $42.8 million more to work with for the two-year budget cycle that begins in July, a nominal increase equal to 0.3 percent of general fund state spending through mid-2021.
Stopping new charter schools in Nevada until 2021 is no longer on the table following the substantial modification of the bill that first proposed a moratorium, but now requires the State Public Charter School Authority to establish a plan for charter school growth.
A bill that would tweak the 2015 mandated reorganization of the Clark County School District would reclassify certain funds used for schools, a move the district said would decrease the burden on principals.
A bill that would make the names of marijuana business owners public in Nevada cleared the state Assembly Tuesday, and now heads to the governor’s desk where it is expected to be signed.
A bill from state Democrats that would roll back changes made to Nevada’s prevailing wage laws by Republicans in 2015 was approved by state Assembly Tuesday on a party-line vote.
After a hectic two weeks that saw lawmakers in Carson City vote and pass hundreds of bills, things will return to a more normal pace as the final one-third of the Nevada Legislature’s session gets underway.
A bill to ban involuntary microchipping of people, unanimously passed earlier this month by the Assembly, ran into a skeptical Senate committee Friday where members raised concerns that its prohibitions were too broad.