The Nevada Legislature has passed a law writing federal protections on pre-existing health conditions into state law, sending the bill to the governor for his signature.
Bill Dentzer
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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.
Presidential candidate Eric Swalwell said he supports Medicare for all, legalizing marijuana and a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan during a stop in Reno Monday.
The Legislature begins its final month in session Monday with Senate and Assembly finance committees working to resolve budget differences and close budgets while bills that have passed in one house move through their second round of committee hearings.
A bill to cap funding for a popular private-school scholarship program — passed by the Assembly last month on a party-line vote — got its second legislative hearing Thursday, again drawing parents of current or would-be recipients to oppose the proposed limit.
CARSON CITY – A revised state revenue forecast gives lawmakers $42.8 million more to work with for the two-year budget cycle that begins in July, a nominal increase equal to 0.3 percent of general fund state spending through mid-2021.
A bill to ban involuntary microchipping of people, unanimously passed earlier this month by the Assembly, ran into a skeptical Senate committee Friday where members raised concerns that its prohibitions were too broad.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke made two appearances on a campaign swing through Northern Nevada on Thursday.
Democratic and Republican leaders from both houses Wednesday gave similar and largely conciliatory assessments of lawmakers’ efforts to pass a combined 180 bills Tuesday to meet a deadline for first house passage — a cutoff that saw just 18 bills fail to advance.
The Senate and Assembly worked late into the evening Monday ahead of a Tuesday deadline for bill passage, with senators narrowly approving new confidentiality requirements around public employee retirement records among two dozen Senate bills passed.
The Senate and Assembly moved through relatively light pre-Easter agendas Friday ahead of expected back-to-back marathon sessions starting Monday to meet the next legislative deadline for bill passage.
The Nevada Supreme Court Friday unanimously rejected a legal appeal by Republicans pressing to recall two Las Vegas Valley Democratic state senators.
Gov. Steve Sisolak — the first Democrat to hold the office in 20 years — reflects on his first 100 days in office.
Republicans enter the 2019 Nevada legislative session at a distinct advantage against Democrats, focused as much on steps needed to rebuild their numbers and make the case for a return to strength while not raising a white flag of surrender for the session entirely.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford on Wednesday named the members of a sexual harassment policy task force created by Gov. Steve Sisolak in his first official act as governor on Jan. 7.
Gov. Steve Sisolak named an advisory panel Friday that will write rules and procedures for a new compliance board to regulate Nevada’s exploding cannabis industry.