CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers start the ninth week of their 2009 session on Monday with more hearings that are likely to produce challenges to deep budget cuts proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
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CARSON CITY — A state Senate panel was urged Friday to approve a power-of-attorney measure aimed at protecting Nevada seniors from abuses by caregivers and, in some cases, their own children.
CARSON CITY — A bill to prohibit motorists, including police and emergency personnel, from text-messaging on cell phones while behind the wheel won committee approval Friday and now moves to the full Nevada Senate.
CARSON CITY — Chancellor Jim Rogers urged legislators Friday to tell him the exact figure at which they will fund the Nevada System of Higher Education, not just offer more guesses on how much money will be available.
CARSON CITY — Reno resident Pamela Brooks said Friday that when her longtime same-sex partner died, she was treated like a criminal and told to leave the hospital room.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Assembly panel voted Thursday to back a plan for a lottery in the nation’s No. 1 gambling state, despite arguments that it would compete with slot machines and other games of chance.
CARSON CITY — Members of a Senate-Assembly budget panel said Thursday they want to find funding to keep state museums operating as close to current levels as possible, rejecting Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed cuts that would close some museums or cut hours.
CARSON CITY — A plan allowing no-warrant seizures of funds on prepaid debit or stored-value cards, to block money-smuggling by drug-dealers or financing for terrorists, was approved Thursday by a state Senate panel despite critics’ constitutional concerns.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada legislator pressed Wednesday for a state law to prevent Taser use that could result in deaths, but faced opposition from police who said they already have thorough stun-gun policies in place.
CARSON CITY — Fifty-four legislative staffers earned more than $100,000 as a result of overtime during the 2007 legislative session, including 18 who made more than the governor’s own salary of $141,000.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers were urged Tuesday by Chief Justice James Hardesty to approve measures that would result in major changes in the state’s judicial system.
CARSON CITY — A state lawmaker has proposed a $5 tax on acts of prostitution in Nevada, where brothels operate legally in some areas, and a counseling agency for sex workers that would be funded by part of the tax revenue.
CARSON CITY– A bill debated Tuesday by Nevada lawmakers would impose a moratorium on capital punishment in Nevada until mid-2011, while a study is done on the cost of the death penalty.
CARSON CITY — A bill designating the vivid dancer damselfly as Nevada’s official state insect has won unanimous support in the state Senate and is on its way to the Assembly.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously Monday for two measures that allow lawmakers to accept federal stimulus funds for jobless benefits — despite earlier concerns by Gov. Jim Gibbons.