The League of Women Voters of Nevada is tracking the following bills the week of April 1, 2019. If you are interested in how we select bills for tracking, please see the LWV US “Impact on Issues 2016-2018,” which details the League’s approved issues and positions. https://www.lwv.org/league-management/other-issues-tools/impact-issues-2016-2018-online-edition
We are a non-partisan organization that does not promote nor work directly with either political party or candidates, but we do advocate for issues that align with our mission. Issues and positions are vetted, studied, and approved through a rigorous consensus process. You can learn more about League here: https://www.lwv.org/
You can view legislative hearings online and read the content of bills through the legislature’s website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/
For a full review of the Nevada legislative website’s tools and as well as tips for tracking bills and providing testimony, the League of Women Voters of Nevada offers a 2019 Legislative Engagement and Advocacy Guide. https://lwvnvblog.org/civics/
If you would like to send comments on bills, you can find email addresses for Assembly members here:
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Legislator/A/Assembly/
Email addresses for Senate members are here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Legislator/A/Senate/
You can also use the Legislative Polling tool to indicate support or opposition on bills here:
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/80th2019/
Monday, April 1, 2019
AB153: AN ACT relating to crimes; making it a crime to negligently store or leave a firearm under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB291: AN ACT relating to public safety; prohibiting certain acts relating to the modification of a semiautomatic firearm; reducing the concentration of alcohol that may be present in the blood or breath of a person while in possession of a firearm; repealing state preemption of the authority of counties, cities and towns to regulate the transfer, sale, purchase, possession, carrying, ownership, transportation, storage, registration and licensing of firearms, firearms accessories and ammunition; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
8:00 AM
Joint Meeting of the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and Senate Committee on Judiciary
- Room 4100 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Videoconferenced to Room 4401 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
- Videoconferenced to McMullen Hall, Great Basin College, 1500 College Parkway, Elko, NV
The hearing for A.B. 291 will start at 8 a.m. and will end when the Assembly and Senate go to Floor Session. The hearing for A.B. 153 will start at 6 p.m. when the joint committee will reconvene.
AB76: AN ACT relating to mental health; requiring the Commission on Behavioral Health to employ a coordinator for each regional behavioral health policy board; revising the counties that comprise certain behavioral health regions; revising the duties of a regional health policy board; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
See Agenda
Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services
- Room 3138 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Videoconferenced to Room 4406 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
AB76 (WS)
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Budget closing for the Secretary of State’s Office: Help America Vote Act
8:00 AM
Joint Meeting of the Senate Committee on Finance and Assembly Committee on Ways and Means
- Room 4100 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Videoconferenced to Room 4412 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
AB431: AN ACT relating to convicted persons; revising provisions governing the restoration of the right to vote for convicted persons who have been discharged from probation or parole or released from prison; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
8:00 AM
Assembly Committee on Judiciary
- Room 3138 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Videoconferenced to Room 4401 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
SB287: AN ACT relating to public records; clarifying the records of a governmental entity that must be made available to the public to inspect, copy or receive a copy thereof; revising provisions relating to the manner of providing copies of public records; revising provisions governing the actions taken by governmental entities in response to requests for public records; revising provisions relating to the relief provided for a requester of a public record who prevails in a legal proceeding; revising provisions governing immunity from liability for public officers and employees who disclose or refuse to disclose certain information; revising provisions governing the fees that governmental entities are authorized to charge for a copy of a public record; providing civil penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
1:00 PM
Senate Committee on Government Affairs
- Room 2149 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Videoconferenced to Room 4404B of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
SB326: AN ACT relating to convicted persons; revising provisions governing the restoration of the right to vote for certain persons who have been convicted of certain felonies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
8:00 AM
- Room 2135 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Videoconferenced to Room 4412E of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
AB137: AN ACT relating to elections; authorizing an elector to register to vote or update voter registration information during the period for early voting and on the day of certain elections and setting forth the requirements for such registration or update; revising certain provisions related to establishing polling places within the boundaries of Indian reservations and Indian colonies; revising certain provisions relating to voting after the time that polls close; requiring a provisional ballot to include all offices, candidates and measures upon which the person casting the provisional ballot would be entitled to vote if he or she were casting a regular ballot; extending the period for early voting in certain counties and cities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Fiscal Notes: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/6204/FiscalNotes
Unfunded Mandate: CONTAINS UNFUNDED MANDATE
4:00 PM
Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 3142 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Videoconferenced to Room 4406 of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
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