Nevada is experiencing a growing housing and economic crisis, and community groups and advocates are taking the fight to the Legislature with the goal of ensuring all Nevadans have access to reliable housing and resources.
Nevada school districts would have to provide at least a $450 monthly health care coverage stipend for long-term substitute teachers who are hired for 30 or more consecutive days under a bill that passed out of a legislative panel Thursday.
Advocates in the Nevada Legislature, however, want to improve access to gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-nonconforming people across the state.
Assembly Bill 161 aims to make traffic stops safer by creating a voluntary DMV designation that will warn police of communication impairment at the start of an encounter.
A bill before the Nevada Legislature would transform a generation of Nevadans born into poverty, proponents say.
State Treasurer Zach Conine asked lawmakers to fund a baby bond program designed to help children born into financially stressed households get a boost out of poverty.