Keep an eye on school building, bilingual education and renewable energy mandates on Day 31 the 2017 Legislative session:
Nevada
Special education students and teachers will have more protections if a proposal laid out in the Senate education committee meeting moves forward.
Many liberals believe in “positive rights,” aka the right to free stuff, like birth control. But that reading necessarily means that government will infringe someone else’s rights.
A bill to update technical aspects in state water law received only token opposition Tuesday in a Senate committee hearing.
The number of Nevada children cultivating green thumbs at school could grow under a proposed grant program.
Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment on Tuesday disputed arguments that the time for the ratification of the amendment to the U.S. Constitutional is past.
The Senate voted mostly along party lines Tuesday to kill a federal rule that gives a voice to the American public on the use of public lands in western states — including 47.5 million acres in Nevada.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday he has not decided if he’ll sign an initiative to automatically submit voter registration applications when people conduct certain transactions at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
The governor’s office is not yet taking a firm stance on a pair of bills that would expand birth control coverage to every insurance plan in Nevada.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday he agrees with Sen. Scott Hammond and will not propose any kind of income or means test for the Education Savings Account program he is seeking to fund this session.
Most of Nevada’s most seriously mentally ill inmates have been relocated to a correctional facility in the capital as the Department of Corrections moves to implement a policy to treat prisoners with psychiatric issues.
The chairwomen of the Nevada Legislature’s two money committees have invited Attorney General Adam Laxalt to appear at his agency’s budget hearing set for Wednesday.
Here are three things to watch on Day 30 of the 2017 Legislative session.
Nevada high school students would start creating a post-high school “road map” as early as ninth grade, under a program proposed to the Assembly education committee.
Supporters of a measure to automatically submit voter registration applications when people conduct certain transactions at the Department of Motor Vehicles said the change would modernize Nevada’s election system and make registering to vote easier.
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