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Well before Republicans fired off a volley of legislation this year to weaken Nevada’s weapon laws, this gun-loving state already had a reputation for loose firearm restrictions. And now, the recent GOP takeover of the Legislature has sparked life into more than 10 measures that could make it even ...

Nevada Republicans are sponsoring a bill that would allow local governments to opt out of future collective bargaining agreements with their employees. Assemblyman Erv Nelson is sponsoring AB280 and testified ......

Several Nevada Republicans are trying to scrap the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange launched as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, saying the program is expensive, suffered a rocky start and ...

Several Nevada Republicans are trying to scrap the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange launched as part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. A Senate committee held a hearing Monday to review SJR14, which proposes a constitutional ban on ......

Senate Republicans pushed legislation through the upper house Friday opponents say weakens overtime laws and takes money away from those making the lowest hourly wages in Nevada.SB193 changes the rules for workers at ...

A Nevada assemblyman who broke rank with fellow Republicans on a key bill opposed by unions has moved from a committee where he was a swing voter. Assemblyman Glenn Trowbridge, a Las Vegas Republican who was appointed to his seat by the all-Democrat Clark County Commission and who has described him...

A group of Nevada Republicans are leading the charge to repeal the state's Common Core K-12 education standards. Assemblyman Brent Jones is the primary bill sponsor of AB 303 and will present the bill Wednesday before ......

Nevada Republicans are a lot like the Donner Party; without someone as juicy as Harry Reid to pick on, they wind up eating their own....

Controller Ron Knecht and a group of Assembly Republicans headed by Jim Wheeler of Gardnerville rolled out a budget plan they say would fund the governor’s education enhancements without raising ...

Carson City, Nev. — Controller Ron Knecht and a group of Assembly Republicans headed by Gardnerville’s Jim Wheeler rolled out a budget plan they say would fund the governor’s education enhancem...

Controller Ron Knecht and a group of Assembly Republicans headed by Jim Wheeler of Gardnerville rolled out a budget plan they say would fund the governor’s education enhancements without raising ...

A group of Nevada Republicans are bringing forward a bill allowing for the break-up of the Clark County School District, despite the district’s opposition.Freshman Assemblyman David Gardner is sponsoring AB394, which ...

A proposed no-new-taxes state budget plan was outlined today by a group of Republicans who called it a “living-within-our-means proposal.” The plan calls for spending ......

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a “death panel” because it was designed to cut Medicare costs....

A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad....

House Republicans and Democrats came together last week to resolve a decade-old deficiency in the way doctors are reimbursed by Medicare....

A group of conservative Nevada Republicans plan to introduce an alternative budget plan that doesn't raise taxes. Republican Assemblyman Jim Wheeler said the plan would ......

The latest round of conflict between Nevada Republicans and unions came to a head on Wednesday during a bill hearing that would dramatically change collective-bargaining rules for public employee unions.Ass...

In what unions are slamming as an Armageddon for workers, legislative Republicans today vetted a bill that would weaken collective bargaining for police, firefighters, teachers and other local government employees. A panel of state lawmakers ......

There came a time during the Assembly Judiciary Committee’s hearing Monday when Las Vegas Republican Michele Fiore wondered — out loud — why it was that county sheriffs weren’t arresting federal law enforcement officers (she called them “thugs”) for impersonating police officers....

There were major developments Monday in the debate over taxes to fund Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $7.3 billion two-year budget, with Assembly Republicans scheduled to introduce an alternative revenue plan in an evening floor session....

A bill approved by the state Senate today 14-5 got more Democratic votes than it would have otherwise because of a willingness to compromise on both sides....

Republicans surprised their Democratic colleagues on Friday by tacking a provision raising Nevada’s minimum wage to $9 an hour to a bill that would repeal a law limiting the regular workday to eight hours.T...

Republicans blindsided Democrats on a Nevada Senate committee Friday when they amended an overtime bill to raise Nevada’s minimum wage to $9 an hour, which would be a 75-cent increase for workers who do not receive employer-paid insurance.....

Republicans have added a surprise minimum wage hike to a bill that would repeal a law limiting the regular workday to eight hours. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Labor and Energy approved an amended version of ......

Assembly Republicans have crafted a tax plan that is a hybrid of the business licesne fee component used by the govervor and an expansion of the payroll tax plan sought by some business types, sources confirm.
The plan is expected to drop Monday, the deadline for committee bill introductions.
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Trial lawyers are coming under fire this legislative session as never before, a faceoff many say has been long in the making. There are at least 15 proposals that proponents say will decrease the number of civil lawsuits and diminish the influence of trial attorneys in Nevada. The bills are support...

Nevada Republicans are proposing a bill repealing the state's requirement for concealed gun permits. Republican Sen. Don Gustavson is leading a group of Republican legislators supporting ......

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid says Republicans must remove an abortion provision from a human trafficking bill or the legislation won't pass ......

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s refusal to allow the Senate to vote on a nuclear deal with Iran left him “no choice” but to sign the provocative message that Republicans delivered to the Middle East power this week....