April Corbin

1 week ago | nevadacurrent.com | April Corbin Girnus |April Corbin

A ballot measure to establish an open-primary, ranked-choice voting system in Nevada may have been rejected by voters last November, but its underlying message of voter disenfranchisement clearly struck a chord with Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager. The Assembly’s top Democrat, who opposed that ballot measure, said he suspects changes to Nevada’s closed primary system are coming whether the political establishment wants it or not: “The dam is going to break one way or another.

1 week ago | nevadacurrent.com | April Corbin Girnus |April Corbin

The Nevada State Constitution requires the Legislature pass the K-12 education budget bill before other budget bills. But that doesn’t seem to stop lawmakers from bickering about education policy until the very end of each session. This year may prove no exception. Education. Of course. Legislators must end the 120-day session — sine die, they call it — on Monday, June 2. In this final week, two major education bills backed by two major political players are still in play.

1 week ago | nevadacurrent.com | April Corbin Girnus |April Corbin

The tax benefits in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will only be big and beautiful for Nevadans’ wealthiest households, according to a new analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The progressive think tank released a state-by-state analysis of the tax provisions of the “Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed Thursday by House Republicans. They found that in Nevada, the richest 1% — households making $796,500 or more a year — would see an average tax benefit of $82,590 in 2026.

2 weeks ago | nevadacurrent.com | April Corbin Girnus |April Corbin

Tens of thousands of Nevadans could pay less each month for insulin if lawmakers approve a proposed out-of-pocket cap on commercial insurance plans, according to the state Division of Insurance. Assembly Bill 555, sponsored by Speaker Steve Yeager, would prohibit private insurance companies from charging people more than $35 for a 30-day supply of a prescription insulin drug.

2 weeks ago | nevadacurrent.com | April Corbin Girnus |April Corbin

The Nevada State Legislature’s latest deadline brought an unsurprising end to a “medical aid in dying” bill Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo had promised to veto. The bill was one of 31 declared dead Friday. Similar to a bill vetoed by the governor two years ago, Assembly Bill 346 would have legalized the prescribing, dispensing and administering of medication designed to end the life of terminally ill patients.