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In a unanimous decision published Thursday, the seven members of the Court ruled in favor of a petitioner, Christopher Anderson, who had appealed charges of battery offense constituting domestic violence on the grounds that he was erroneously denied the right to a jury trial.

The scorecard released was this week ahead of the organization’s Conservative Political Action Conference spinoff, CPAC West, which is scheduled for Friday in Reno. Its overall score for the Assembly — 29 percent — reflects the fact that Democrats have a two-thirds majority in the chamber and advanced legislation that ACU strongly opposes.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a developmental and behavioral condition that affects more than 10,000 children under the age of 18 in Clark County, making it more prevalent than autism, according to UNLV Medicine Ackerman Autism Center. A panel hosted by Ackerman Autism Center on Monday focused on meeting the challenges of living with FASD.

Summers-Armstrong has served as chief steward for Regional Transportation Commission. Since May, she has been an executive board member of SEIU Nevada, which represents thousands of health care workers and public employees in the state. According to her campaign announcement, advocating for cash bail reform is one reason Summers-Armstrong decided to run for office.

Parra’s family is one of many thrown into uncertainty by the Legislature’s changes to Opportunity Scholarships, which were created in 2015 and help low- to middle-income families afford private school. The tax credit-based program has broad support from Republicans, but Democratic leaders who argue Nevada should be laser-focused on funding its cash-strapped public schools took steps to rein in the program.

Those meetings and others held between Sisolak with high-powered lobbyists, legislators with major pending bills, federal government officials and a slew of well-known business leaders were revealed in a public records request submitted by The Nevada Independent for the governor’s calendar through the legislative session.

Gov. Steve Sisolak excoriated Clark County School District leaders during a press conference Friday over a breakdown in negotiations for additional pay for teachers who completed certain professional development — an impasse that has led the Clark County Education Association to call for a strike next month. 

A capstone bill to expand tenants’ rights was among the most controversial of the 2019 session, and triggered a coordinated backlash campaign that tried — unsuccessfully — to pressure Gov. Steve Sisolak to veto the measure.

More than two dozen California legislators sent a letter to Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson on Monday urging the state to adopt new laws restricting gun access, including a ban on assault weapons and prohibiting gun sales to people younger than age 21. The letter comes weeks after a 19-year-old gunman legally bought a semiautomatic rifle in Fallon less than three weeks before his July 28 attack at the Gilroy Garlic festival that killed 3 people and wounded 13.

Nevada lawmakers have approved nearly $300,000 in funding for the nascent Patient Protection Commission, an advisory health-care panel that was one of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s top priorities in the last legislative session.

Opportunity Scholarships receive funding when businesses donate to approved scholarship organizations, which then offer awards to individual students that can be worth more than $8,000 a year. As enacted in 2015, the amount of tax credits authorized each year grows by 10 percent. But AB458 caps the size of the program at existing levels, largely preventing new enrollees or accommodating inflation in tuition.

Senate Republicans are mounting a legal challenge to a Democratic-backed bill removing a scheduled decrease in the state’s payroll tax rate, which could have significant ramifications for the state’s two-year budget.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered former Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson to serve 27 months in prison and pay $249,900 in restitution for his misuse of campaign funds.

More than 250 bills take effect either in whole or in part on Monday, from a measure that immediately restores voting rights for formerly incarcerated individuals to legislation that allows noncitizens to apply for a professional or occupational license.

The city of Reno pushed SB556, with the help of Democratic state Sen. Julia Ratti, as a last minute measure to fund public safety services. The bill, which would have allowed local governments with less than 700,000 residents to send an increase in property tax to the ballot in 2020, died without a hearing as well. 

In spite of the benefits to absorbent young minds, Nevada lawmakers largely maintained the status quo rather than broadening a state-run pre-K program that is currently serving only 11 percent of eligible, low-income 4-year-olds.

Ford’s office is planning a “multi-pronged” public information campaign to educate Nevadans regarding the changes in AB431, a bill by Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson that automatically restores the right to vote to any Nevadan previously incarcerated without requiring any court approval. The bill, which takes effect on July 1, passed the Legislature on a mostly party-line vote and was signed into law by Sisolak on May 29.

Between casting votes and attending committee meetings, GOP state Sen. Scott Hammond offered his perspective as a member of the Republican minority — and the reason for his staunch opposition to extending the payroll tax rate. As the sponsor of the bill in 2015 that created the Education Savings Account, he also discussed his support of the Opportunity Scholarship program — another school choice initiative — and other topics.