Our spreadsheet and rolling updates show who is in and who is out for the dozens of Nevada Legislature seats on the ballot in 2024.

On Wednesday, lawmakers heard and voted to advance a bill that would appropriate $64.5 million to replace the Owyhee Combined School on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in northeastern Nevada.

This week’s Indy Environment looks at the water bills that are advancing in the Legislature as a bipartisan group on a budget subcommittee supported increasing the state’s water funding.

The end of filing means campaign season is officially underway, as candidates — including more than 60 who filed in Clark County on Friday — prepare for the June 14 primary election and Nov. 8 general election.

A decision by Senior District Judge Robert Estes on Wednesday will have the likely effect of keeping the new legislative district maps — which favor Democrats — in place for the 2022 election.

A law firm known for representing Nevada Democrats is representing the state Legislature in the ongoing redistricting lawsuit filed by Republican Assembly members.

In an email on Monday, Hafen said an amended complaint will be filed this week with Elko County as an additional plaintiff and with additional maps.

Nye County residents are suing over new maps the Legislature adopted earlier this month, saying they split Pahrump and could prevent like-minded voters from electing a candidate of their choice.

When lawmakers kicked off their 120-day legislative session in February, the state was still recovering from a brutal winter surge of COVID-19, which saw a thousand new cases of the virus reported across the state each day.

Nevada lawmakers stand poised to vote out dozens of bills banning ghost guns, changing criminal justice procedures including bail and a host of other measures affecting education, cannabis and health care heading into one of the final major bill passage deadlines of the session.

In this edition: Recapping a Q&A with the head of the state mining association, how one lawmaker went viral on TikTok and details on a bill aimed at getting more Native American involvement in the naming of geographical places. Plus, a look ahead at this week’s major bill hearings.

Members of the Assembly, after a five-hour hearing Wednesday night, voted 31-10 to grant final approval to SB4, the last major piece of legislation to advance in the special session. It mandates certain health and safety protections for hospitality workers, in addition to granting broad liability protections to nearly all businesses, governmental bodies and nonprofit groups in the state so long as they follow required local, state and federal health protocols.

As proposed, implementing furloughs and merit pay freezes for the state’s 18,000 employees would save the state a combined $66 million ($51.7 million from state workers and $14.3 million from merit pay freezes), a sizable portion of the governor’s plan to meet the $1.2 billion shortfall in the state budget.

The long delay in reporting was a result of Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s decision to hold a mostly all-mail election in an effort to mitigate potential spread of COVID-19, with limited in-person voting sites in each county. Most voters opted to use a mail-in ballot, with only around 7,800 people opting to cast their ballot in-person.

At least one legislator has lost their re-election bid, while several caucus-backed candidates remained locked in close contests as mail-in ballots continue to be counted in the wake of Tuesday's election.

With less than a year to go until the presidential election, Nevada Republicans are hosting trainings and reactivating their volunteer army. National Republicans have promised to invest in the state no matter what. But to what extent Nevada is actually in play in 2020 will likely come down to who wins the Democratic presidential nomination.

Freshman Republican appointed to replace brothel owner Dennis Hof, who died prior to being elected to the Assembly in 2018. Hafen represents the Republican-leaning District 36, which includes parts of Nye, Clark and Lincoln counties.

Even state lawmakers and elected office-holders who won’t be back on the ballot for two more years at the earliest continued to bring in large campaign contributions in the last two months of 2018, according to campaign finance reports required to be filed with the secretary of state on Tuesday. The reports span Nov. 2 to Dec. 31.