The hepatitis C crisis that continues to unfold in Southern Nevada played a critical role in the introduction Monday of an Assembly bill that would remove the key element of the 2004 medical malpractice reform initiative: a $350,000 cap on pain and suffering damages.
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CARSON CITY — State Sen. Mike Schneider, D-Las Vegas, wants to spend $1.6 billion for education, besides the lawmakers’ usual allocation for schools, to help improve Nevada’s ranking near the bottom among states in educational dollars spent per student.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers are expected to introduce more than 100 bills and discuss federal stimulus funds, budgeting accountability and pay raises in the Nevada governor’s office as they start the eighth week of the 2009 session on Monday.
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This is not an article about whether the Legislature should raise taxes.
CARSON CITY — A measure that would give Nevada bankers a tax break isn’t likely to win approval given the state’s bleak finances, its author says.
CARSON CITY — Nevada higher education officials and legislators agreed Friday that rather than cutting the budgets of the state’s two universities by 50 percent, reductions should be equalized in all colleges and universities.
CARSON CITY — A proposal by Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons to merge commissions on economic development and on tourism in this tourist-dependent state bogged down Thursday in a Senate-Assembly budget panel whose members agreed it’s a bad idea.
CARSON CITY — The property tax rebates some senior citizens receive each year should be doubled to $1,000, but they’d have to hold out until 2012, a legislative committee decided Thursday.
CARSON CITY — Legislators were critical Thursday of a bill that would allow private companies to construct and maintain toll roads in Nevada, including a $1 billion toll road alongside existing Las Vegas freeway lanes.
CARSON CITY — An Assembly panel was urged Thursday to support the latest attempt to replace Nevada’s every-other-year legislative sessions with annual sessions.
Gov. Jim Gibbons on Wednesday forwarded the hotel room tax increase approved by the Legislature to the secretary of state to become law without his signature.
CARSON CITY — After scant deliberation Wednesday, the Senate Government Affairs Committee accepted the recommendation of three Clark County fourth-graders and voted for a bill to make the vivid dancer damselfly the official state insect. “I feel very excited we are halfway there,” said Meagan Anders, a fourth-grader at Beatty Elementary School in Las Vegas, following the 7-0 vote. She and Beatty fourth-graders Lexie Arancibia and Ryan Underwood asked the committee to support Senate Bill 166 that names the damselfly as Nevada’s insect.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers were told Wednesday that the state’s worker compensation system makes it tough on injured Nevadans to get the medical care and follow-up rehabilitation and training they need to return to their jobs.
CARSON CITY — Lawmakers were told Wednesday that many doctors, counselors and other professionals who deal with seniors don’t always recognize signs of abuse and need to get online training that would help them spot such mistreatment.