CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers on Friday debated a bill to boost penalties for thieves who steal copper wiring and then peddle it on the street or to recycling firms.
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CARSON CITY — Nevada’s every-other-year legislative sessions would be changed to every year under the latest of many such attempts to be proposed by state lawmakers.
CARSON CITY — Legislative money committee members have told Nevada Human Services officials that money must be added back into budgets providing services to children from low-income families and to pregnant women.
CARSON CITY — More than 60 measures were proposed Friday in the Nevada Legislature as lawmakers rushed to meet a Monday deadline for bill introductions by individual lawmakers.
CARSON CITY — A key Nevada Senate panel voted unanimously Friday for a bill that would help homeowners win court judgments for personal property damaged or sold during improper foreclosure proceedings.
CARSON CITY — A new bill introduced in the Nevada Assembly would expand the pool of people who are required to submit to genetic testing if they are linked to a crime.
Legislators will hold public forums on the budget Saturday aimed at soliciting people’s opinions on the state’s fiscal picture and the governor’s budget proposals.
CARSON CITY — Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley’s bill to require state government to place money into a new rainy day fund was approved unanimously Wednesday by the Assembly.
CARSON CITY — Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons’ announcement that he’ll let a hotel room tax increase take effect without his signature has prompted state Senate leaders to accuse him of misleading them and being a political coward.
CARSON CITY — Mothers of construction workers killed on the job told legislators Wednesday that their sons would be alive today if they had received proper safety training.
CARSON CITY — A Senate panel voted Tuesday for a bill directing state regulators to require that long-term planning by NV Energy, Nevada’s major utility, factor in future costs of carbon emissions.
CARSON CITY — A room tax increase that could bring in $233 million over the next two years was approved by the state Senate on Tuesday, but it will go forward without Gov. Jim Gibbons’ signature.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers reviewing the state’s nearly $1.5 billion share of federal stimulus money were told Tuesday that the agency overseeing the state’s social service programs could start running out of money by the end of this month.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly committee was asked Tuesday to endorse a broadly written bill that would make anyone who induces a minor to become a prostitute subject to felony charges and possible lifetime supervision as a sex offender.
Dozens of people wearing red and carrying signs arrived outside the Sawyer Building on Monday to show their support for Assembly Bill 162, which would require certain insurance plans to cover treatments and therapies for autism.
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