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Protecting Your
Health |
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SB5 |
Establishes the Cancer
Drug Donation Program. (Co-Sponsor) This bill died in the
Assembly due to the removal of immunity provisions for those that donated
the drugs. |
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SB58 |
Provides for the
imposition of an administrative assessment for certain traffic
violations to be used for the awarding of grants to volunteer
organizations that provide emergency medical services. (Primary Sponsor)
The Assembly failed to pass this measure |
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SB59 |
Adopts the Family
Opportunity Act for families of disabled children (Primary Sponsor)
This bill did not make it out of Senate Finance. |
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SB171 |
Creates the Nevada
Academy of Health. (Primary Sponsor) Passed |
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AB232 |
Provides for
certain information relating to pharmacies and the prices of commonly
prescribed prescription drugs to be made available to consumers.
Passed |
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Protecting Your
Property |
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SB85 |
Makes various changes
to provisions relating to eminent domain. While this bill did
not pass, three other measures concerning eminent domain (SB 16, AB 102
& AJR 3) did pass. |
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SB542 |
Increases the homestead
exemption. The Homestead Exemption was increased to $550,000
in AB 483 |
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AB137 |
Revises provisions
concerning acts of terrorism. Institutes penalties and requires
restitution for creating a "hoax" and causing a public safety response
Passed |
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AB279 |
Requires a certain portion of the unused
value of certain gift certificates to escheat to the State VOTED
AGAINST: Passed |
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AJR3 |
Proposes to amend the
Nevada Constitution to revise provisions relating to the taking of
private property by eminent domain (Joint Sponsor) Passed |
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Protecting Your
Rights |
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SB92 |
Revises certain
provisions pertaining to the regulation of firearms by local
governments.(Primary Sponsor) Passed |
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SB237 |
Revises certain
provisions governing permits to carry concealed firearms. Passed |
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SJR2 |
Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to
allow appointment of judges
VOTED AGAINST: Passed |
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AB95 |
Prevents confiscation
of firearms during an emergency or disaster. Passed |
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Protecting Your
Purse |
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SB94 |
Revises provisions
governing the occupancy tax imposed on lodging in Douglas County.
VOTED AGAINST: Failed. |
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SB131 |
Increases certain court fees charged by
county clerks.
VOTED AGAINST: Passed |
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SB141 |
Contingently imposes or
increases the rate of certain taxes in certain counties to fund capital
projects for the county school district. VOTED AGAINST: Failed |
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SB146 |
Authorizes the boards
of county commissioners of certain counties to levy an ad valorem tax to
pay the costs of operating a regional facility for the detention of
children. VOTED AGAINST: Passed |
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SB248 |
Revises
provisions concerning the salaries of justices of the Supreme Court and
district judges in Nevada. VOTED AGAINST: Passed |
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SB257 |
Authorizes the Board of
County Commissioners of Nye County to increase the sales tax to support
public safety services. VOTED AGAINST: Failed. This measure
was amended into AB 461, and although I continued to vote nay, it
ultimately passed. |
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SB469 |
Increases the amount of the annual transfer
of money from the Abandoned Property Trust Fund to the Millennium
Scholarship Trust Fund. VOTED AGAINST While I support the
Millennium Scholarship, I cannot support the continued use of tax
dollars to prop up a program that was originally intended to be funded solely by
tobacco settlement dollars. Did not pass out of the Assembly |
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SB516 |
Increases the
compensation of certain elected county officers. VOTED AGAINST: Passed |
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SB579 |
Makes various
changes concerning financial administration. This innocuous sounding
bill is the legislative pork bill. VOTED AGAINST: Passed |
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AB196 |
Makes changes
concerning the limitation on the total proposed expenditures of the
State. This bill would have placed state spending on the unfunded PERS
liability outside of the legislatively mandated spending cap. VOTED
AGAINST: Passed |
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AB478 |
Revises provisions governing payday loans.
This important piece of legislation provides safeguards for all Nevadans
against predatory lending, but perhaps most importantly provides
significant protections for our military men and women who often fall
prey to these practices. Passed |
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AB629 |
Makes various
changes concerning financial administration. This is the Assembly's pork
bill. VOTED AGAINST: Passed |
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Protecting Those Who
Protect Us |
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SB3 |
Revises various
provisions relating to the death benefits payable to surviving spouses
of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty
Passed |
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SB219 |
Creates the Gift
Account for Veterans in the State General Fund and authorizes the use of
money in the Account for the support of outreach programs and services
for veterans and their families. Passed |
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Protecting Our
Children & Communities |
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SB6 |
Includes marijuana in
the provision which prohibits persons from intentionally allowing
children to be present at certain locations where certain crimes
involving controlled substances are committed. Primary Sponsor
No action was taken on this bill in the Assembly |
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SB158 |
Establishes the Special Needs Scholarship
Program - A school voucher program No action was taken in the
Assembly |
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SB232 |
Makes various changes
to the provisions governing sex offenders. (Co-Sponsor) Did
not pass out of Senate Finance - provisions incorporated in other bills |
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SB286 |
Authorizes teachers who
hold permits to carry concealed firearms and who have completed a
specified program of firearm training to carry concealed firearms on
school grounds under certain circumstances. Failed |
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SB404 |
Revises provisions
governing homeschooled children. Passed |
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SB471 |
Makes various
changes to provisions related to sex offenders, offenders convicted of a
crime against a child and other criminal offenders. Passed |
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AB72 |
Revises provisions governing the crime of
luring a child Passed |
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AB510 |
Makes various changes
pertaining to offenders. VOTED AGAINST This bill increases "good
time" credits and decreases the mandatory enhanced penalties for
committing a crime with a weapon. Passed |
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Protecting The
American Way of Life |
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SB325 |
Makes English the
official state language. Co-Sponsor No action was taken on
this bill in the Assembly |
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SB415 |
Provides that certain
alien students are not eligible to receive certain types of financial
assistance through the Nevada System of Higher Education and revises
provisions governing eligibility for a millennium scholarship. Primary
Sponsor No action was taken on this bill in the Assembly |
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AB383 |
Makes various changes to laws related to
immigration. Penalizes businesses that hire illegal aliens. Passed |
