In addition to floor sessions, lawmakers are scheduled to hold hearings on bills raising penalties for firing a gun into an occupied building or vessel, increasing the number of Clark County commissioners and approving studies on renewable energy and electric vehicles.

Rep. Mark Amodei reiterated his plans to run for re-election in 2020 on Tuesday, though he said the Republican primary for Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District would make the Democratic presidential primary “barely look like it’s just a little ice cream social.”

Sen. Jacky Rosen raised almost $550,000 between the beginning of the year and the end of March, the most raised by any member of the congressional delegation in the first quarter of the year. Rep. Susie Lee raised the second-highest total with nearly $450,000.

Large class sizes, not enough mental health workers, transportation headaches and inadequate funding emerged as some of the primary concerns among educators, students and parents who participated in a town hall-style discussion about Nevada’s K-12 education system on Saturday.

The need-based Nevada Promise Scholarship requires students to fill out the FAFSA and seek out federal aid before the state funds kick in. That can be daunting for undocumented students who don’t have a Social Security number and don’t want to reveal too much information to a federal government that also has the power to enforce immigration laws against them.

Lawmakers have a long list of votes on their agenda Tuesday, including measures to freeze the growth of the Opportunity Scholarship and prevent police from detaining a person on an immigration hold unless there’s an underlying crime.

California Rep. Eric Swalwell — one of the latest Democrats to enter the crowded presidential race — cast himself as a frustrated millennial ready to take on national matters such as student debt, health care and gun violence during a town hall Monday at UNLV.

According to the utility’s 2018 Portfolio Standard Annual Report, NV Energy reported a 24.2 percent compliance with the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), well above the required 20 percent set in state law. The utility reported a 24 percent clean energy portfolio in 2017 and has met renewable standards set under state law over the last nine years.

In a six-page internal memorandum, which was sent to staff of the attorney general’s office last week and shared with The Nevada Independent, Ford and his staff outlined a number of ambitious recommendations and policy goals aimed at addressing the premise that just locking people up isn’t working.