A panel of lawmakers signed off Tuesday on a budget for the Nevada higher education system that includes a double-digit increase in funding.
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3 things to watch on Legislative Session Day 93: reform rollbacks, gun-free libraries and pot tax.
The measure would establish sessions in odd-numbered years of 90 working days within 120 consecutive calendar days. It would create sessions of 30 working days within 45 consecutive calendar days in even-numbered years.
Nevada law would codify medical standards for determining when a patient is brain dead under a bill previously approved by the Assembly and heard Monday by a Senate committee.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday signed four bills into law besides the Clark County School District reorganization bill.
A measure heard Monday would give the Nevada Legislature more ability to oversee the Board of Regents and the state higher education system.
“So many child victims are not able to recognize the impact of what happened to them until much later in their lives,” Daniele Dreitzer, executive director of The Rape Crisis Center, wrote in a letter to lawmakers.
A projected shortfall in Nevada’s general fund Medicaid budget is not as large as previously estimated, a legislative money committee was told Monday.
Recreational marijuana cleared the final state hurdle Monday, paving the way for sales to begin in less than two months.
State bonds will likely cover roughly $200 million in improvements meant to relieve freeway traffic near the 62-acre stadium site for the NFL’s Raiders on Russell Road, just west of Interstate 15.
State senators are moving closer to formally voicing objections to storing spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain.
State Sen. Mark Manendo said Monday he has hired an attorney as the Nevada Senate investigates allegations of sexual harassment against him.
Opponents of a bill updating sex education in public schools focused Monday on costs as reason for lawmakers to reject the bill.
Assembly Bill 247 would allows victims to terminate leases without financial penalties with the showing of certain documentation.
The stories told by SB201 supporters were horrifying: electrodes on sensitive body parts and ice baths intended to change someone’s sexual orientation. What’s happening behind the scenes at the Legislature, however, shows that those stories are just smoke screens for banning speech that liberals find intolerable.