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Carson City liaison briefs supervisors on bills tracked at the Nevada Legislature
Summary
Carson City government affairs liaison Cameron Grama updated the Board of Supervisors on the status of roughly 423 bills the city tracked, noted deadlines and reported that the city's own study bill remains exempt from expedited deadlines.
Carson City Government Affairs Liaison Cameron Grama told the Board of Supervisors on April 8 that the city is tracking about 423 bills this session and updated supervisors on which measures survived committee passage.
Grama said the list of bills Carson City is tracking is available at Carson.org/legislature and that roughly 309 of those bills achieved committee passage, with about 130 carrying amendments. He noted the next major deadline is the first-house floor-passage cutoff, after which bills that do not pass their chamber of origin by the end of the day on Tuesday will be dead.
The liaison reported that AB 32, a Carson City-sponsored bill, is currently in the Assembly Ways and Means Committee and is exempt from the early deadlines because the Legislative Counsel Bureau is preparing a fiscal note for the study the bill would mandate. "We participated in a hearing," Grama said, and staff are coordinating with committee members to schedule a work session and a committee vote.
Grama briefed the board on other tracked measures he had discussed previously: two bills that included removing a workers'compensation salary cap (AB 332 and AB 469) did not make it out of committee. Two public-records bills (AB 152 and SB 51) also failed to achieve committee passage. SB 324, sponsored by Sen. Melanie Scheibel, would prohibit sale of bottled water under certain sizes in communities bordering the Lake Tahoe watershed; Grama said staff are engaging the sponsor to clarify the bill's intended scope because the county boundary extends into the lake.
Turning to a bill the board had supported, Grama said SB 402, which would create funding mechanisms for rehabilitating older buildings, survived committee in a 50-bill work session and remains live. He said staff previously testified in support at the board's direction.
Grama told the board he will return with an update after the first-house floor votes and as bills move toward possible amendments in the final month of the session.
