Assembly Bill 469 is an attempt to head off a lawsuit filed by the Clark County School Board challenging the process by which the reorganization legislation has been implemented.
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A bill that would restore commercially viable rates for homeowners who want to install rooftop solar panels and participate in net metering had its first hearing Monday in an Assembly subcommittee.
Legislators would meet every year for limited times and be paid on a regular basis under a proposed constitutional amendment introduced Monday in the Nevada Senate.
President Donald Trump signed a bill Monday that kills a federal rule dictating planning on public lands in Western states — including 47.5 million acres in Nevada.
State workers would be entitled to collective bargaining under a bill introduced Monday in the Nevada Senate.
Henderson Constable Earl Mitchell bluntly gave his thoughts Monday about a bill that would eliminate the certification requirement for urban constables. The proposal, he told a panel of lawmakers, is “ill-advised.”
Senate Bill 253 creates the Nevada Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act. It is similar to the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act and would apply to businesses with 15 or more employees, as well as state and local governments.
Nevada judges may end up deciding if juvenile sex offenders will have to register and appear in the public sex offender database.
Nevada continues to make progress on testing a backlog of rape kits from Southern Nevada, with 2,456 sent for analysis and 984 of those completed, lawmakers were told Monday.
It’s Day 50 of the 2017 Legislative Session. Expect a late night, as it’s the deadline for introducing committee bills.
The return of Yucca Mountain should be the clarion call that unites Nevada in demanding that the federal government give us back our land.
They only missed the deadline by 35 years, but Nevada lawmakers made history last week with approval of the Equal Rights Amendment, taking action nearly a half-century after Congress sent it to states for ratification.
The intensity level at the Nevada Legislature will ramp up in Week 8 as dozens of bills get hearings ahead of a looming “do or die” April deadline for passage out of committee.
The death penalty may be ending in Nevada. Assembly Bill 237 in the Legislature would ban capital punishment and commute the sentences of some 81 inmates on death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty stood proudly outside the 26,600-square-foot marble structure at Clark Avenue and Fourth Street on Friday, pointing to the county, state and court seals etched around the top.