Gov. Joe Lombardo broke his own record for most vetoes issued from a single legislative session, rejecting 87 bills that advanced out of the Legislature’s 120-day session. Lombardo also signed 518 bills into law, meaning that he vetoed about 1 out of every 7 proposals that reached his desk.
In his first vote against the Trump administration since the president retook office, Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) opposed the White House’s multibillion dollar rescission request Thursday over his support of public radio. The Trump administration sent Congress a package of 21 already-approved expenditures that the president wanted Congress to claw back. The funding had been targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as part of its mission to slash federal spending. Successful passage would codify the cancellations for funds that have been appropriated by an earlier Congress but have not yet been spent.
Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s budget plan would rapidly push more than 300 financially struggling rural hospitals toward a fiscal cliff, according to researchers who track the facilities’ finances. The hospitals would be at a disproportionate risk of closure, service reductions or ending inpatient care, according to a report authored by experts from the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research following a request from Senate Democrats, who released the findings publicly Thursday. Many of those hospitals are in Kentucky, Louisiana, California, and Oklahoma, according to the analysis.
State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media companies, The Markup and CalMatters found. The data, including prescription drug names and dosages, was sent by web trackers on state exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act to help Americans purchase health coverage.
“Don’t say this is going to be the worst fire season,” Gov. Joe Lombardo jokingly told State Forester and Fire Warden Kacey KC at a June 10 wildfire briefing in Carson City. “You say that every year.” KC smiled in reply, but her cautious forecast for the coming fire season didn’t quite comply with the governor’s request.
CARSON CITY—Fire restrictions went into effect June 19 across much of western Nevada due to rising temperatures, dry vegetation, and a recent uptick in human-caused fires. The restrictions apply to federal, state, and tribal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Nevada Division of Forestry.
As the famous Vladimir Lenin quote goes, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” This week felt like the latter. Through it all, the U.S. Senate has still been working through the reconciliation bill — and though far down the list of headlines this week, land sale provisions being debated could have major downstream effects on Nevada, where the federal government owns over 80 percent
The Nevada Health Centers Mammovan will be making stops in Battle Mountain, McDermitt, Winnemucca, and Lovelock from June 10 through June 13 to provide mammography screenings for women ages 40 and older.
No. Nevada does not require all judges in the state to have law degrees.
(AP) — Nevada-based public media stations are appealing to listeners and viewers for help after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR, alleging bias in the broadcasters’ reporting. The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. The White House, in a social media posting announcing the signing, said the outlets “receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Travelers who aren’t REAL ID compliant by the upcoming deadline this week will still be able to fly but should be prepared for extra scrutiny, the head of Homeland Security said Tuesday. Kristi Noem told a Congressional panel that 81 percent of travelers already have IDs that comply with the REAL ID requirements. She said security checkpoints will also be accepting passports and tribal identification when the deadline hits Wednesday.
Nevada lawmakers had hoped to come up with a permanent funding source this session to build wildlife bypasses — structures that help animals safely cross busy highways and cut down on the estimated 5,000 animal-vehicle collisions that happen in the state each year. But the effort suffered a major setback after AB486, a bill looking to double the existing $1 fee the state charges on new tires and send the funding toward the projects, was gutted. It faced opposition from the trucking industry — a heavy consumer of tires — and political challenges because it would require a two-thirds majority approval to increase a tax.
The fate of more than 15 million customers’ genetic data remains in limbo after popular DNA testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March. The data is up for sale, stoking fears about how it might be used and prompting attorneys general from more than a dozen states to warn 23andMe users: Delete your data. “Your genetic data is your most personal, confidential data, and you should be able to protect who has access to it,” North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, a Democrat, said in a March statement.
Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) will introduce a bill Thursday to cap the price of insulin drug copays to $35 a month for Nevadans on private insurance — a measure that could have major implications for the more than 1 in 10 Nevada adults with diabetes. The measure, announced at a press conference in Carson City, comes as Yeager said some Nevadans are paying as much as $500 a month out of pocket for an essential substance discovered a century ago. It would place Nevada among the 26 states that have already set limits on the price of insulin for private payers — caps in other states range from $0 to $100 a month.
Nevada’s main budget fund for K-12 education is expected to bring in about $160 million less in revenue for the upcoming budget cycle than projected at the start of the year, raising questions about how much the Legislature can do to expand education funding and programming for the next biennium. The forecast, prepared by state finance analysts and obtained by The Nevada Independent Thursday, predicted the State Education Fund will bring in about $8.6 billion during the 2025-2027 biennium. The fund is a special budget account devoted solely to education filled with specific tax revenue, including room taxes, marijuana taxes and a special mining tax. The decreased projections largely result from downturns in expected revenue from the local school support tax, which is a 2.6 percent sales tax included as part of the state’s overall sales tax.