Nevada lawmakers on Friday took a bill in the state Legislature that would require all single-stall public bathrooms to be gender neutral.
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Based in Reno, Bill Dentzer covers government and politics and related state news out of the Review-Journal’s capital bureau in Carson City. He joined the RJ in October 2018 after similar assignments at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah and the Idaho Statesman in Boise. He earlier covered state and local government in his home state of New York, where he graduated from Hamilton College.
A pair of bills in the Nevada Legislature would ban the death penalty in Nevada, but they face an uncertain future even among Democrats.
The resolution, first passed in 2019, could see a constitutional amendment on the ballot to guarantee equal rights regardless of gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.
Proposals that could allow for a safe injection site pilot program and significantly alter medical pricing in Nevada were introduced Monday among 91 new bills.
With a bill-introduction deadline looming on Monday, Carson City lawmakers are bracing for a long day.
A bill that would ban so-called ghost guns drew plenty of testimony on both sides in Carson City on Wednesday.
More than 50 bills were introduced Monday as lawmakers waived a deadline for them to submit bills for consideration.
The leader of the Assembly Democrats on Friday unveiled a proposal that could see college athletes in Nevada earning pay and signing endorsement deals.
Venues for large gatherings in Nevada can begin hosting events at up to 50 percent of capacity starting Monday under an emergency directive from Gov. Steve Sisolak on Friday.
Senate Bill 153 would put Nevada on a path to observe either daylight saving time or standard time year round, avoiding the “archaic” semiannual clock switching.
State officials and workers represented by a union authorized under a 2019 collective bargaining law announced a tentative contract agreement on Tuesday for four of 11 affected employee groups.
A bill that would reverse the current organ donation policy — in which people opt-in to becoming organ donors — drew critics at a legislative hearing Monday.
An upcoming March 15 deadline for lawmakers to introduce their bills might quicken matters in Carson City this week as the Legislature reaches the one-third mark of its 120-day session.
Landlords opposed a bill that would automatically seal eviction records for nonpayment of rent during the ongoing pandemic and require landlords to give some tenants longer notice for a no-cause eviction.
Democratic state lawmakers will propose using federal pandemic stimulus to bolster summer school programs to help students recover from a year of learning lost to pandemic restrictions.