Nevada lawmakers will testify before a House hearing this week in opposition of revising Yucca Mountain as a permanent nuclear waste site, the Energy and Commerce Committee announced Monday.
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Nevada lawmakers hunkered down for a long day Monday, processing dozens of bills to meet a looming deadline.
Here are three things to watch for on Day 78 of the 2017 Legislative Session.
Rep. Dina Titus last week said violent protests on college campuses are responses to Donald Trump’s presidency and proposed budget. She also included violent protests in a list of ways people are “coming together” to oppose Trump.
State lawmakers will be spending hours on the Senate and Assembly floors and behind closed doors in caucus meetings as they jam through countless bills that need action by midnight Tuesday.
Nevada lawmakers changed their focus in the 11th week of the session, shifting to more floor sessions and less time in committee hearings as another deadline approached.
CARSON CITY – The good idea fairy is alive and well in Carson City.
The Nevada Assembly on Friday unanimously passed legislation that would put in place a Juvenile Justice Bill of Rights for youthful offenders.
Senate Democrats rolled back collective bargaining reforms Friday on party-line votes, approving two bills that Republicans argued gut bipartisan changes enacted two years ago.
The Nevada Senate approved a bill Friday to outlaw possession, sale or purchase of animal parts or byproducts from sensitive species.
The Nevada Assembly on Friday unanimously approved legislation to put more oversight over private, professional guardians.
The Nevada Assembly on Friday passed a resolution strongly objecting to storing spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain.
WASHINGTON — Nevada’s congressional contingent from Las Vegas are demanding to be heard at a hearing next week on proposed legislation to develop the mothballed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
People arrested for drunken driving would be required to install ignition interlock systems on their vehicles under a bill approved Friday by the Nevada Senate.
CARSON CITY — The board of Nevada’s Public Employees Retirement System voted Thursday to give its support to a bill that required the disclosure of retiree names. PERS chair Mark Vincent even said he sees “value” to the public in releasing the names, if directed to do so by the Legislature.
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