March 31, 2021
Economic Forum said General Fund revenues should come to $11.4 billion for the 2024-25 budget cycle.
The program is designed to make a combination of private and public funding available to start-ups and other small businesses.
The seven major revenue streams brought in $689.6 million more than forecast this fiscal year, about $3.5 billion so far.
Members of both parties objected strongly that the spending plan essentially cut the legislative branch out of a say in exactly how it would be spent.
The maps split rural Nye County into three state Assembly districts.
Democratic lawmakers made it clear Saturday evening they intend to push their redistricting maps through despite strong opposition not only from Republican lawmakers but county officials, Hispanics and Nevada Indian tribes.
A flurry of laws passed by the Nevada Legislature earlier this year took effect Friday.
The proposal first appeared in Sisolak's State of the State address but was never introduced in the Legislature.
All or parts of 208 bills passed by the 2021 Legislature take effect Thursday, including the so-called “public option” health insurance plan.
Gov. Steve Sisolak has vetoed four bills including the measure that would have turned ethics investigations within the legislative branch over to lawmakers instead of the independent statewide Ethics Commission.
The law is designed to create a health plan for all Nevadans that is less expensive but at least as generous as Medicare.
Nevada lawmakers introduced a proposal late Saturday to impose additional taxes on mining, opening the door for consensus between an industry that has long sought to protect its unique tax structure and reformers who want to increase state spending on education.
Four of the five bills that create the state budget for the coming biennium have now been introduced in the 2021 Legislature.
The Nevada Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would expand the definition and penalties for deceptive trade practices, including price gouging, during a state of emergency.
The Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means committees met in joint session Monday to review a sweeping rental assistance bill.
Long-simmering disputes over coronavirus restrictions in the Nevada statehouse boiled over on Thursday when the Democratic majority voted to punish Republican lawmakers for refusing to comply with rules in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
A joint session of Senate Finance and the Assembly Ways and Means committees Wednesday added more than $500 million to state spending for K-12 education in the coming biennium.
Lawmakers voted Saturday to restore nearly 500 positions that were originally held vacant because of budget cuts ordered last summer.
Several members of the money committees objected Tuesday to specific cuts to K-12 education funding in the governor’s recommended budget.
Lawmakers Friday accepted a compromise plan to fund the China Spring/Aurora Pines youth camps in Douglas County.
Lobbyists representing doctors and hospitals clashed with affordable health care advocates on Tuesday in the Nevada Legislature's first hearing on a proposal to create state-run health insurance plans
Defense advocates objected Thursday to an amendment in a bill designed to remove an unconstitutional bail statute.
Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro of Las Vegas on Wednesday introduced legislation that would create a Public Option program that would provide health insurance coverage to “all natural persons who reside in this state.”
Tuesday’s deadline for bills to pass out of the house of origin saw just four pieces of legislation left behind.
The Nevada Senate on Monday voted unanimously in favor of a proposal to allow pharmacists to provide patients birth control without authorization from a doctor or health care provider with a traditional prescription pad.
The Nevada Legislature reopened its doors to the public on Thursday after months of only allowing lawmakers, staff and a limited number of reporters into the building.
Nevada lawmakers sped through hundreds of proposals on Friday to meet another major deadline of the 2021 legislative session, which required most bills to pass out of their first committee before Saturday to remain up for consideration.
Friday is the Nevada Legislature’s deadline for passage of non-exempt bills from committee in the house where they were introduced.
The Assembly Ways and Means Committee was asked Monday to support a bill expanding the ability of governments and agencies to seek reimbursement from people who willfully or negligently cause wildfires.
After years of leadership and legislative counsel directors opposing electronic security, the Nevada Legislature is getting metal detectors and X-ray machines at its main entrances.
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