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2-Minute Preview: Lawmakers to hear bills on warrants for body cavity searches, licensing fees for social workers

Megan Messerly
Megan Messerly
Riley Snyder
Riley Snyder
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The Nevada Legislature building

With only a few days to go until the deadline for bills to pass out of their house of origin, lawmakers will continue voting on Friday.

They’ll also hear a handful of bills in committees that would bar law enforcement from conducting a body cavity search without a warrant and raise the maximum licensing fees the social worker board can charge.

Budget subcommittee members will close several budget accounts, too, within the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services and the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. But lawmakers’ light agenda ahead of Passover and the Easter weekend belies the mountain of work ahead of them, with the hundreds of bills awaiting a vote of Tuesday’s deadline.

For more information on the status of bills working their way through the Legislature, check out The Nevada Independent’s bill tracker. And for the bills in committee today, check out the Legislature’s website for committee times and links to watch live committee meetings and floor sessions.

Here’s what to watch for on Friday at the Legislature:

More budget closings

The budget subcommittee on human services will close several budget accounts, including the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, within the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services budget. The subcommittee will also close several Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation budget accounts, including workforce development and unemployment insurance.

The budget subcommittee on general government will also close several Department of Administration budgets.

The committees meet at 8 a.m.

AB189: Search warrants and body cavity searches

This bill by Democratic Assemblywoman Susie Martinez would prohibit any law enforcement officer from conducting a body cavity search on an individual unless specifically authorized in a search warrant.

The bill passed unanimously out of the Assembly, and is up for a hearing at 8 a.m. in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

SB74: Eviction legal proceedings

If approved, this bill would clarify that either a landlord or tenant could appeal a summary eviction for nonpayment of rent within ten days, and makes it clear that the appeal process also applies to mobile home parks.

The bill is sponsored on behalf of the Nevada Supreme Court, and would take effect on Oct. 1, 2019. It passed unanimously in the Senate on April 16.

The bill is up for a hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee at 9 a.m.

SB502: Licensing fees for social workers

A newly introduced bill that increases the maximum amounts for application and licensing fees the Board of Examiners for Social Workers can charge is up for a hearing in the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee. The bill would raise the initial application fee from $40 to $200, the provisional license free from $75 to $150, and the annual renewal of a license from $150 to $350, among other changes.

The bill will be heard at 1:30 p.m.

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