nevada legislature

Nevada’s never-implemented educational voucher program may be getting a second chance at life, if two newly filed ballot measures get their way.

More than 50 bills passed during the 2021 legislative session went into effect as new laws on Jan. 1.

A split vote between Democrats and Republicans yesterday means the University of Nevada and Truckee Meadows Community College have to drop coronavirus vaccine mandates for students.

The Nevada Legislature’s interim finance committee today approved more than $21 million of federal funding to support COVID-19 treatments.

An effort to take the power to draw Nevada’s political boundary lines away from the Legislature and place it in the hands of an independent redistricting committee has been officially resurrected for the 2022 election cycle.

Now that Nevada has passed legislation to decriminalize traffic tickets and end debt-based license suspensions, lawmakers and organizers are looking at other policies to ensure poverty isn’t criminalized. 

Body camera footage released this week shows how Nevada Highway Patrol officers confiscated $87,000 from Stephen Lara in February 2021.

Legal challenges are likely and frustrations are deep after a divisive special session where Democrats found themselves with virtually no supporters.

Nevada lawmakers revised redistricting maps on Monday to count hundreds of residents at their pre-incarceration addresses rather than at the prisons where they were counted during the 2020 census.

The Nevada State Senate on Sunday approved a bill containing the congressional and legislative maps they hope to use for the next decade.