Nevada Politics

The Nevada Senate gave final legislative approval Tuesday to a measure designed to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill....

Rep. Dina Titus, who had hinted about a “big announcement,” said in a video today that she was running for re-election to her House seat, and will not run for U.S. Senate....

A bill making permanent a package of sunset taxes and raising cigarette taxes is being counted on to raise $996 million over the upcoming two-year budget cycle....

Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed into law a bill that extends the statute of limitations for bringing forward rape charges from four years to 20 years....

Rep. Dina Titus said Tuesday she plans to run for re-election, choosing not to gamble a safe House seat against a campaign for U.S. Senate....

An amendment to a bill lost in a confusing Assembly floor vote early Saturday that would have given regulatory authority over ride-hailing companies to the Nevada Transportation Authority sailed through in a second vote Tuesday....

The Assembly Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday heard a bill that would allow government employees to quit their union membership whenever they wish....

A controversial bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns on Nevada college campuses was given a brief hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and could soon move to the full Assembly for a vote....

The joint Senate Finance/Assembly Ways and Means committees held their second extended hearing into the compromise business tax plan proposed by the governor.The plan is a combination of the flat business license fee,...

The Senate Finance Committee on Monday approved the bill making dramatic changes to the historic Nevada Plan that funds K-12 education in the state.SB508 sets up a system in which children with different needs get dif...

The Assembly Ways and Means Committee on Monday was asked to approve a bill city and county officials say would help rein in binding arbitration for their workers.AB249 by Assemblyman Jim Wheeler, R-Gardnerville, woul...

A compromise measure meant to ensure that Nevada’s rooftop solar industry continues to grow while protecting utility customers who do not participate in net metering won approval Monday in an Assembly committee....

Nevada lawmakers grilled administration officials Monday about Gov. Brian Sandoval’s “Plan B” tax proposal, with most queries focused on how a new commerce tax will be implemented and enforced....

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A collective bargaining bill in the Legislature has one lobbyist concerned that it would lead to local governments playing “hide and seek” with money. But supporters say the legislation is needed to give government agencies more long-term financial stability....

Time is running out for Nevada lawmakers. With adjournment one week away, they must confront and resolve the biggest issues that have been percolating all session....

Las Vegas City Council members on Tuesday didn’t blink while passing a $524 general fund budget, but they did spend the better part of an hour weighing different ways to pay for the transfer of neighborhood service staffers to three council offices....

The U.S. House voted last week for a two-month extension in federal highway funding, averting an interruption of state projects while buying more time to come up with a better solution to federal road woes....

The Nevada Assembly has passed a bill aimed at saving the state’s Public Employees Retirement System $1 billion every 10 years. Assembly members voted 41-1 on Friday to pass SB406, which is sponsored by Republican Sen...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers have approved a measure that would repeal a state law requiring overtime pay after eight hours of work.

A bill authorizing ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft to operate in Nevada won approval early Saturday in the Nevada Legislature, but it didn’t happen without plenty of confusion....

The Ways and Means Committee was told Friday giving aircraft maintenance companies tax breaks would bring them to Nevada, more than offsetting the amount of any abatements.Director Steve Hill of the Governor’s Office ...

The Assembly on Friday passed SB225 adding electronic cigarettes, vapor products and other alternative nicotine delivery systems to the laws regulating the sale and advertising of tobacco products.Stores would be barr...

The Department of Motor Vehicles and Supreme Court officials are working on a glitch in the rules that’s stopping newly released prison inmates from getting drivers’ licenses.Until about a year ago, inmates were getti...

Sen. Dean Heller on Friday urged fellow senators to support two pieces of public lands legislation including the Douglas County Conservation Act.He said that act is designed to “jump-start economic development through...

A bill encouraging people involved in an injury accident not to leave the scene is expected to be signed by the governor.SB245 was requested by prosecutors who said existing law prescribes a stiffer penalty for some o...

The Assembly on Friday passed a gun bill that would expand and clarify Nevada’s justifiable homicide law and prevent people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from possessing firearms....

The state Senate on Friday approved a bill that would authorize a needs-based scholarship program for Nevada students, but the measure lacks funding to support it....

A bill to shield grade-school students from discipline for bringing tiny toy guns to school or nibbling their breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun received final legislative approval Friday....

Or most of them do.
Or most of them would prefer that but some actually live in the real world.
That's according to a confidential Assembly Republican Caucus document I've obtained, the product of an informal survey by rookie Brent Jones, a charter member of the so-called "MFers" -- Michele Fiore an...