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Legislative Update Week of April 24, 2017
The League of Women Voters of Nevada will be tracking the following bills the week of April 24, 2017.
The League offers an Advocacy Guide to navigate the legislative website at: https://lwvlvvblog.org/2017/01/22/lwvlvv-2017-advocacy-guide/
You can live-stream legislative hearings here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/
You can watch archived hearings here: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Granicus/
If you are interested in turning your passion for an issue into real power, please find your local League of Women Voters chapter in Nevada:
League of Women of Northern Nevada: www.lwvnn.org
League of Women of Southern Nevada: www.lwvlasvegasvalley.org
The Nevada legislature will be approaching the second major deadline of the session on Tuesday April 25, 2017. On Tuesday any bill not designated exempt must pass out of the house of origination or it will be considered dead; therefore, most of this week will focus on floor votes and closing agency budgets.
League of Women Voters will be watching the floor sessions, which always appear at the top of this page:
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/
And we will be tracking the budget closing for behavioral health:
8:00 AM
Room 3137 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
3161, 3162, 3168, 3170, 3255, 3645, 3648
Legislative Update: Week of April 17, 2017
The League of Women Voters of Nevada will be tracking the following bills the week of April 17, 2017.
LWVNV also offers help using the legislative website’s advocacy tools with our Advocacy Guide:
https://lwvlvvblog.org/2017/01/22/lwvlvv-2017-advocacy-guide/
If you would like to learn more about League, please visit our website: www.lwvnv.org
You can watch legislative hearings live on this page: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/
You can watch archived hearings here: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Granicus/
THESE ARE THE BILLS THAT FAILED TO PASS THE FIRST DEADLINE: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/MissedApril14th.cfm
Monday April 17, 2017
Most committee hearings cancelled
Tuesday April 18, 2017
No bills League is tracking are up for hearings.
Wednesday April 19, 2017
8:00 AM
- Room 3137 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.
Behavioral Health Services Budget
Thursday April 20, 2017
No bills League is tracking are up for hearings.
Friday April 21, 2017
No bills League is tracking are up for hearings.
Update: Fines and Fees Meeting
League supporters,
Thank you to everyone who attended our meeting on criminal justice fines and fees. We had an energizing discussion about a very serious problem.
Here is some brief background information on the topic: While the Nevada constitution mandates funding our court system, it is silent on how to generate the funding.
Currently, the state generates a portion of this funding from fines and fees paid by Nevada residents. The thinking behind this is that people who interact with the courts should largely pay for associated services, and if someone wishes to opt out of paying, simply abstain from activities covered by the courts.
The Nevada Independent’s Megan Messerly covered testimony from Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty at a legislative budget hearing on January 26, 2017, on this topic.
You can read the story at https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/indy-briefs-latest-news-justice-warns-possible-racial-bias-fee-collections/
You can listen to the testimony here: http://nvleg.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=14&clip_id=6424
Fast forward to the Administrative Assessments slide, which is at 1 hour and 50 minutes.
The problem with this underlying reasoning is that it ignores how poverty and mental illness can force individuals into the criminal justice system with little power to extricate themselves. When a person is already living at the margins, and could possibly require medical attention, it can be very difficult to avoid fines and the fees assessed when fines go unpaid.
And once someone becomes locked into a cycle of fines and fees assessed for failure to pay fines, it can be very difficult to escape going to jail. (It should be noted that sending someone to jail increases the system’s costs.)
And sadly, if our courts continue to be funded with fines and fees, there will be a perverse incentive to not take hardships, mental illness, and various other mitigating issues into consideration. Not because our judicial branch employees are unethical, but because we have put them into an impossible situation.
We therefore decided to pursue this issue further to better understand the scope of the problem as well as to investigate ways we can fund our courts apart from fines and associated fees.
Anyone interested in becoming more involved with this issue and anyone who has reports, data, or other information on this topic, please email your interest and/or send your resources to lwv@lwvlasvegasvalley.org Put “Fines and Fees” in the subject line.
Additionally, our League’s annual planning meeting, during which we lay out projects for the 2017-2018 year, will be on August 5th. I will put this topic on the agenda.
If you are interested in attending, when the invitation to attend goes out to the membership, please RSVP. Most likely it will start at 10am and will be at the University United Methodist Church at 4412 S. Maryland Parkway.
Our next regular League community meeting will be September 16th; until then stay in the loop by liking us on Facebook, following us on Twitter, and subscribing to our blog.
Search on Facebook for League of Women Voters of Las Vegas Valley
Search on Twitter for @LWVLVV
And our blog is at: https://lwvlvvblog.org/
Legislative Update Week of April 10, 2017
The League of Women Voters of Nevada is tracking these bills for the week of April 10, 2017.
League of Women Voters of Nevada offers an Advocacy Guide with instructions for using all the legislative website’s tools for public engagement at: https://lwvlvvblog.org/2017/01/22/lwvlvv-2017-advocacy-guide/
You can live-stream legislative hearings here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/
You can watch past meetings archived here: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Granicus/
You can find out more about League of Women Voters at:
Monday April 10, 2017
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.
These three bills all reform the guardianship system.
3:30 PM
Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 2144 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.
SB447 (WS) AN ACT relating to elections; authorizing a registered voter with a physical disability to request absent ballots for all elections held after submission of the request; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB492 (WS) AN ACT relating to elections; authorizing the county clerk in counties with larger populations to establish polling places where any registered voter of the county may vote in person on the day of a primary or general election; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
6:30 PM
Senate Committee on Commerce, Labor and Energy, Subcommittee on Energy
- Room 2144 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.
SB65, SB145, SB146, SB150, SB392, SB407
All these bills deal with energy.
Tuesday April 11, 2017
1:30 PM
Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 3142 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.
AB45 Revises measures related to elections
AB272 (WS) Revises measures related to elections
AB418 Revises measures related to elections
AB478 Changes the deadline by which a person may register to vote by mail for certain elections
Wednesday April 12, 2017
3:30 PM
Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 2144 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.
AJR2 (WS) Proposes to amend the Nevada constitution to recognize all marriages regardless of gender
SB93 (WS) Proposes various changes to elections.
SB144 (WS) Proposes various changes to elections.
SB491 (WS) Allows the Secretary of State to lease electronic voting equipment to small counties
LWV Las Vegas Valley April Community Meeting: Funding Our Courts with Fines & Fees
Please join the League of Women Voters LVV for our April 15th community meeting as we examine the practice of funding our judicial system through municipal fines and fees. This was the issue the Department of Justice investigated in Missouri after Michael Brown’s death.
Legislative Update: Week of April 3, 2017
The League of Women Voters of Nevada will be tracking the following bills the week of April 3, 2017.
We offer a legislative Advocacy Guide with instructions for using the legislative website’s advocacy tools at:
https://lwvlvvblog.org/2017/01/22/lwvlvv-2017-advocacy-guide/
You can live-stream any legislative committee hearing at:
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/
You can watch archived recordings of legislative hearings at:
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Granicus/
You can learn more about League of Women Voters at
www.lwvnv.org
Monday April 3, 2017
8:00 AM
Assembly Committee on Government Affairs
- Room 4100 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.
AB423 Requires the Nevada Commission for Women to collect and report information related to gender equality in the workplace.
3:30 PM
Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 2144 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Video conferenced to Room 4412E of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
SB93 (WS) AN ACT relating to city elections; authorizing, under certain circumstances, the governing body of a charter city to conduct a city election in which all ballots must be cast by mail; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB447 Revises provisions relating to absentee voting.
SJR3 (WS) Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to provide certain rights to voters.
SJR4 Urges Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to allow the regulation of independent political expenditures by corporations.
See Agenda For Time
Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor, Subcommittee on Energy
- Room 4100 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.
AB206 AN ACT relating to renewable energy.
AB223 AN ACT relating to energy efficiency programs.
AB270 AN ACT relating to energy; revising provisions governing the eligibility of certain customers of electric utilities in this State to participate in net metering.
AB342 AN ACT relating to renewable energy.
AB405 Establishes certain protections for and ensures the rights of a person who uses renewable energy in this State.
AB452 AN ACT relating to energy; directing the Legislative Committee on Energy to conduct an interim study on energy choice; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AJR10 Expressing opposition to the development of a repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in the State of Nevada.
Tuesday April 4, 2017
1:30 PM
Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 3142 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.
AB272 AN ACT relating to elections
AB392 AN ACT relating to elections
AB403 AN ACT relating to governmental administration
ACR8 Directs the Legislative Commission to create an interim study concerning reports relating to public education.
Wednesday April 5, 2017
4:00 PM
Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 2144 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Video conferenced to Room 4412E of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
SB94 AN ACT relating to elections
SB491 Makes various changes relating to mechanical voting systems and mechanical recording devices.
SB492 (WS) Revises provisions relating to polling places
Thursday April 6, 2017
1:30 PM
Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 3142 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.
AB104 Makes various changes relating to elections.
League Legislative Update: Week of March 27, 2017
The League of Women Voters of Nevada will be tracking the following bills for the week of March 27, 2017.
You can review how to use all the advocacy tools on the legislative website with the LWVNV Advocacy Guide:
https://lwvlvvblog.org/2017/01/22/lwvlvv-2017-advocacy-guide/
You can live-stream committee hearings from any wifi-enabled device on this page:
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/
You can provide your feedback on bills on this polling page:
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/79th2017/A/
You can watch archived committee hearings and floor sessions here:
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Granicus/
And you can learn more about League of Women Voters at:
Monday March 27, 2017
1:00 PM
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.
Creates four behavioral health regions in this State and a regional behavioral health policy board for each region.
3:30 PM
Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 2144 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,
Omnibus voting & election bill.
3:30 PM
Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor, Subcommittee on Energy
- 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.
AN ACT relating to energy; revising provisions governing the eligibility of certain customers of electric utilities in this State to participate in net metering; revising provisions governing the billing of customers of electric utilities in this State who participate in net metering; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
You can register your opinion on any of the above bills at: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/79th2017/A/
Tuesday March 27, 2017
1:30 PM
Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 3142 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.
This bill allows the major political parties to request that the Secretary of State and the Election Departments run a presidential primary instead of the parties running caucuses.
3:30 PM
Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development
- Room 2135 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.
Requires the Office of Economic Development to collect and report information related to gender equality in the workplace.
You can register your opinion on any of the above bills at: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/79th2017/A/
Wednesday March 29, 2017
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.
Abolishes capital punishment
You can register your opinion on any of the above bills at: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/79th2017/A/
Thursday March 30, 2017
1:30 PM
Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 3142 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.
Creates the Task Force on the Modernization of State Government.
You can register your opinion on any of the above bills at: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/79th2017/A/
League Legislative Update: Week of March 20, 2017
The League of Women Voters of Nevada will be tracking the following legislation the week of March 20, 2017.
If you would like to live-stream any legislative hearing, you can do so from this webpage: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Calendar/A/
The League of Women Voters of Nevada also offers an Advocacy Guide to help you navigate through the Legislature’s various features. You can access the Guide on our blog: https://lwvlvvblog.org/2017/01/22/lwvlvv-2017-advocacy-guide/
Monday March 20, 2017
3:30 PM
Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 2144 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, NV.
- Video conferenced to Room 4404B of the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., Las Vegas, NV.
AN ACT relating to elections; requiring certain accommodations be made for voters who are disabled or not physically able to wait in line to vote.
The time on the committee below is variable, depending on when the committee before adjourns, the committee below usually starts between 4 and 4:30 pm.
Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor, Subcommittee on Energy
- Room 4100 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.
Expresses opposition to the development of a repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in the State of Nevada.
Tuesday March 21, 2017
1:30 PM
Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Room 3142 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.
Enacts the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Wednesday March 22, 2017
8:00 AM
Assembly Committee on Government Affairs
- Room 4100 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.
Revises provisions governing the Nevada Commission for Women.
League Update: Change Our Guardianship Laws
League Supporters,
I want to update everyone on our March 18th community meeting.
Our community meeting speaker was Rana Goodman who runs the Stop Guardian Abuse NV organization. Rana told us some pretty horrific stories about elderly and disabled Nevadans who were abused by a state-appointed guardian. You can read more about this organization here: http://www.stopguardianabusenv.org/blog
There are a number of bills currently pending in our legislature to address the myriad problems with guardianship that must pass. Here is a summary of those bills and information on how to contact legislators.
AB150 Sponsored by Assemblyman Michael Sprinkle
Committee: Commerce and Labor
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/79th2017/Bill/4897/Overview
Please contact the members of the Commerce and Labor Committee:
- Put Please Pass AB150 in the Subject line
- Provide a brief statement about why AB150 is an important bill to pass
This bill is in Senate Judiciary
SB168 Sponsored by Senator Becky Harris
Committee: Judiciary
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/79th2017/Bill/5013/Overview
For each member of the committee, please write:
- Please pass SB168 in the subject line
- Write a brief message about why reforming our guardianship laws are important.
| Tick Segerblom – Chair
Tick.Segerblom@sen.state.nv.us Nicole J. Cannizzaro – Vice Chair Nicole.Cannizzaro@sen.state.nv.us
|
Michael Roberson
Michael.Roberson@sen.state.nv.us
|
These bills are in Assembly Judiciary Committee
AB158 Sponsored by Senator Becky Harris.
Committee: Judiciary
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/79th2017/Bill/4996/Overview
AB229 Sponsored by Senator Becky Harris
Committee: Judiciary
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/79th2017/Bill/4996/Overview
AB319 Sponsored by Assemblyman Michael Sprinkle and Senator Becky Harris
Committee: Judiciary
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/79th2017/Bill/5295/Overview
AB130 Sponsored by Assemblyman Michael Sprinkle
Committee: Judiciary
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/79th2017/Bill/4872/Overview
AB254 Sponsored by Assemblymen Steve Yeager and Michael Sprinkle
Committee: Judiciary
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/79th2017/Bill/5137/Overview
For each committee member, please write:
- Please pass AB130, AB158, AB229, AB254, AB319 in the subject line.
- Write a brief statement on why it is important to reform our guardianship laws.
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