There’s just seven days until government funding lapses, and with House Republicans yet to pass a spending bill, federal agencies are preparing to close. The last government shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — lasted 35 days in 2018 and 2019.

Gov. Joe Lombardo has begun issuing vetoes in earnest ahead of the end of the state’s 120-day legislative session, striking down measures ranging from gun control bills to mental health care reforms.

Algunas propuestas se relegaron como parte de acuerdos de alto nivel entre el gobernador y los líderes legislativos, y otros simplemente se consideraron demasiado complicados o costosos para avanzar en la sesión de 120 días.

Some were left behind as part of high-level deals between the governor and legislative leaders, and others were simply considered too fraught or too expensive to advance in the 120-day session.

Proponents of SB184, which makes several changes to the city’s charter and would expand the North Las Vegas City Council by two wards, urged lawmakers on the Assembly Government Affairs Committee Tuesday to base their decision on “adequate representation” and the city’s population growth following the 2020 census, which shows that North Las Vegas has increased its population by nearly 10,000 residents, making it one of the fastest growing cities nationwide. The city population has grown to more than 274,000 as of 2022.

Nevada lawmakers are considering a bill that would prohibit any government limitations or requirements that may block patients’ access to birth control and reproductive health services.

After legislators attempted to tackle issues of sexual violence and misconduct at the state’s colleges and universities in 2021, a bipartisan group of lawmakers and advocates are again looking to expand the scope of those policies — in part by putting more power in the hands of legislative appointees. 

“Every Nevadan has a fundamental right to participate in the electoral process,” Torres said during a hearing of the bill Tuesday. “However, this right is often restricted for limited-English proficient Nevadans.” 

Major political donors in the health care and pharmaceutical industries pumped more than $1.3 million into legislative campaigns in the 2022 election cycle, ahead of a 2023 legislative session likely to be rife with fierce debate over health care issues. 

Several Nevada educators from testified in support of two bills that would do away some of the restrictions on exclusionary disciplinary practices put in place in 2019.

During the Legislature’s first-ever Environmental Justice Day, environmental advocacy organizations lobbied for legislation to address the way climate change disproportionately affects certain communities.

Assemblywoman Selena Torres (D-Las Vegas) confronted a representative of the LVMPD during a hearing over differing accounts of the agency’s role in deportations. 

Though two Democratic lawmakers said they have no position or did not want to comment on Gov. Joe Lombardo's push to speed up licensure processes, they are working on some licensing reform efforts of their own.

Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna introduced the resolution in Congress Tuesday to urge President Joe Biden to acknowledge the United States’ role in El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.

Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) had filed the suit in 2020 to try to answer the long-standing question of which, if any, public jobs a part-time state lawmaker should be allowed to hold.

As the results for the midterm election pour in, Democrats appear to be maintaining control of the Legislature, but they will likely fall short of hoped-for supermajorities in either house.

Not impressed with the state’s Pre-K-12 education system, Republican gubernatorial candidate and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo has released his priorities for Nevada schools if elected. 

All three Clark County sheriff candidates — Stan Hyt, Kevin McMahill and Tom Roberts — spent most of their law enforcement careers serving on the Las Vegas police force.

Alleviating the pain of sharp rent and home price increases continues to dominate Nevada local governments’ priority lists as they spend millions in federal pandemic response dollars, officials reported to lawmakers.

The Clark County School District's school violence problem has some pointing out deficits in a 2019 law that they say, if addressed sooner, could have helped prevent a share of misconduct that’s occurring.