This week, Governor Sisolak was busy signing legislation. Some of the highlights are below, and the full lists of the status of bills can be found here:
Bills in the Governor’s Office
Accessible & Secure Elections Legislation
Assembly Bill 121: Improves voting access for those with a disability or overseas
Assembly Bill 321: Makes Nevada the sixth state to adopt a permanent vote-by mail-system
Assembly Bill 126: Makes Nevada first in the nation for primaries in the general elections
Assembly Bill 422: Improves voter registration and data collection
Assembly Bill 432: Expands the automatic voter registration process
Economic Development Legislation
Senate Bill 283: Authorizes the governing body of a municipality to create a district to finance or refinance qualified improvement projects for energy efficiency, renewable energy, resiliency, or water efficiency
Senate Bill 430: Expands and makes structural changes to the State Infrastructure Bank
Senate Bill 448 : accelerate transmission development, renewable energy and storage, bolstering Nevada’s clean energy economy
Healthcare Legislation
Assembly Bill 224: Requires middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools to provide feminine hygiene products in school bathrooms at no cost to the students
Senate Bill 190: Allows women to receive birth control through a pharmacy and bypass a doctor’s visit by requiring the Chief Medical Officer to issue a standing prescription order
Senate Bill 209: Requires certain employers to provide paid leave so employees can take time off to get the COVID-19 vaccine
Senate Bill 420: Public option for healthcare
Senate Bill 424: Creates the Public Health Resource Office to analyze the existing infrastructure for meeting Nevada’s public health needs
Criminal and Social Justice Reform Legislation
Assembly Bill 116: Decriminalizes minor traffic violations, making them civil infractions and ends the practice of issuing warrants when an individual can’t afford to pay fines, fees and assessments
Assembly Bill 286: Restricts the manufacture, possession, purchase, transfer, transportation, or sale of firearms and unfinished frames or receivers that have not been imprinted with a serial number (ghost guns)
Senate Bill 219: removes a court’s authority to suspend a driver’s license or prohibit a defendant from applying for a driver’s license as the result of any delinquent fine, administrative assessment, fee, or restitution the defendant owes
K-12 Education Legislation
Assembly Bill 495: Creates a 1% levy on large silver and gold mines for public school funding
Senate Bill 173: ‘Back on Track’, aimed at helping districts address the learning loss experienced as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
Senate Bill 450: Authorizes the board of trustees of a school district to issue general obligation bonds previously authorized by a vote of the people for a second additional period of 10 years without additional approval
Today, we also saw the first four veto notices:
AB65: Revises provisions relating to ethics in government. (BDR 23-257)
AB368: Revises provisions relating to improvement districts. (BDR 22-17)
SB254: Revises provisions relating to discrimination in housing. (BDR 18-38)
SB391: Revises provisions relating to dentistry. (BDR 40-455)
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