Day 6 of Nevada's special session ends with Senate approving Lombardo's crime bill
The end may be near for the Nevada Legislature’s special session, with votes potentially coming on Tuesday (but timing uncertain) on the two most significant items on the agenda.
Film tax credit expansion (AB5) and Gov. Joe Lombardo’s criminal justice package (AB4) were still awaiting votes in the Senate when Day 6 began, though only the latter saw a vote that came after midnight. Other bills that did not pass out of both chambers included:
- SB4, an appropriations bill that funds a variety of state programs, including administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
- SB5, a bill to create a grant program to decrease health care provider shortages
SB6, a measure to relocate residents of the Windsor Park neighborhood in North Las Vegas, advanced to Lombardo’s desk after the Senate concurred on an Assembly amendment to the bill. The Assembly also passed two bills Monday evening to clarify what is considered a work-related lung disease (SB7) and appropriate $2.2 million for legislative security (SB2).
The Assembly also passed two bills Monday evening to clarify what is considered a work-related lung disease (SB7) and appropriate $2.2 million for legislative security (SB2).
Follow below for updates.a work-related lung disease (SB7) and appropriate $2.2 million for legislative security (SB2).
This page will be updated throughout the day. You can view our bill tracker spreadsheet here. You can read today’s edition of our legislative newsletter, Behind the Bar, here for a breakdown of what's been going on during a largely quiet day of the special session.
- Amended crime bill passes
- School safety bill amended
- Bill added to session agenda
- Signs point toward overlapping special session
- Labor bill passes Assembly
- Another special session?
Amended version of Lombardo's crime bill passes Senate, corridor court bill introduced — 12:57 a.m.
In a past-midnight vote Wednesday morning, the Nevada Senate passed an amended version of Lombardo’s criminal justice package (AB4) on a vote of 16-2. Two Democrats, Sens. James Ohrenschall (D-Las Vegas) and Dina Neal (D-North Las Vegas), cast the two votes against the bill.
The amendment would prohibit school districts and public schools from allowing law enforcement from accessing school grounds without a lawful order except in exceptional circumstances. It would also require detention facilities in the state to maintain a running list of the people they hold.
It now heads back to the Assembly, which will vote on adopting the amendment. The Assembly passed an earlier version of the bill 31-11.
Stay tuned for more details about what is and isn’t in the approved legislation.
The Senate also introduced a new bill (SB9) to re-establish a special court program around the Las Vegas Strip — language that also exists in Lombardo's crime bill.
— Isabella Aldrete and Eric Neugeboren
Senate tweaks school safety bill flagged for constitutional concerns — 11:05 p.m.
A last-minute amendment was adopted in the Senate Tuesday night to AB6, a measure aimed at boosting school zone safety, after a member of the Legislative Counsel Bureau’s legal division said a prior amendment puts it “outside the call of the special session” and would make it “vulnerable to constitutional challenges.”
The bill would now prohibit a school district or public school from disclosing the phone number or address of a student except in limited circumstances, such a legitimate journalistic inquiry, and limits school directories to a student’s school photo, name and grade level. Previously, the bill would have more broadly curtailed sharing the “personally identifiable information” of any student or their guardians.
The bill, which passed out of the Senate on an 18-0 vote with three absences, now goes back to the Assembly for final approval of the new amendment.
– Isabella Aldrete
Bill to limit corporate home buying added to special session — 7:20 p.m.
The Indy reported a bipartisan group of lawmakers has added a bill to the special session agenda intended to limit corporate home buying. You can view the story here.