Nevada
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers kick into high gear as they approach a key deadline and take up weighty issues such as collective bargaining, education reform and taxes as the 10th week of the 2011 session begins today.
The Impact Nevada TV program, which examines critical issues during the 2011 Legislature, examines the first half of the 2011 Legislature in Carson City. (5:30 p.m., Ch. 8).
The Assembly voted 35-6 Friday for a bill that gives the governor, not the state Wildlife Commission, the authority to name the director of the state Department of Wildlife.
CARSON CITY — Sex education classes in public schools would include lessons on avoiding dating violence, abstinence and contraceptives if a new bill passes.
CARSON CITY — Discrimination against transgender people in public accommodations or in the purchase or rental of housing under bills passed on a part-line votes Friday by a Senate panel.