Lawmakers will consider bills on Tuesday that would protect federal workers during a government shutdown, create a statewide homelessness council and define what it means to be a navigable lake or river.

“While Promise Scholarships are an important and praiseworthy step toward college access, this age requirement leaves many Nevadans behind,” Harris testified. “It leaves out those who are mid-career and may need vocational training in order to move forward in their jobs, and working parents who seek to further their education and make better lives for their families.”

Steve Wynn’s sudden exit a year ago from the casino company he founded was the first chapter in what turned out to be a series of shake-ups in the leadership of the Las Vegas casino industry. Four major Strip casino companies – encompassing 23 of the boulevard’s most recognized resorts – are facing varying degrees of uncertainty that have caught the attention of gaming industry followers.

Lawmakers will consider ramping up prison sentences for certain domestic violence offenses and creating a scholarship for older students attending community college.

Dozens of Nevada’s law firms or lawyers have long been major donors come election season. In 2018, more than 240 lawyers, law firms or law-related PACs donated roughly $630,000 to 56 legislators, good for nearly 6 percent of all contributions to lawmakers during campaign cycle.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said during a campaign swing through Las Vegas this weekend that he would not look to fund or reopen the shuttered nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, a rebuke of efforts by the Trump Administration to kickstart the mothballed facility over the last two years.

In her two years in the Legislature, Cannizzaro has earned a reputation as a fair, decisive leader who fosters collaboration. But she also views criminal justice reform through a distinct lens as a criminal prosecutor — a fact that critics fear could doom ambitious bills to move away from “tough on crime” policies and reduce the prison population.

Lawmakers are crafting legislation that would set a roadmap for untangling the existing funding formula and implementing a more transparent method. The effort has been years in the making. At its core is what many describe as a complicated and archaic mechanism for doling out the state’s education dollars that goes back a half-century.