It feels strange to even write these words, but, June 30th will be my last day serving as State Director of Faith in Action Nevada. The time I have spent as Executive Director of ACTIONN and now State Director for Faith in Action Nevada has been deeply meaningful and rewarding. I am proud of all …
May 7, 2021 Welcome to the end of week 14! There are now 25 days left with a lot of work left to be done. The next upcoming important date is the second committee passage on May 14. The bills that were heard this past week were AB195, SB420, and SB50. AB195 is the English …
April 30, 2021 We’ve made it to the end of week 12! There is now only 31 days left of the Nevada Legislative Session. An upcoming important deadline is the second committee passage on May 14. Some bills that were heard this week were AB363 and AB141. AB363 is to regulate and tax short term …
April 23, 2021 Welcome to the 12th week of the Nevada Legislative Session! We have reached the halfway point of legislative steps with 39 days left to go. We just made it through the first house passage, where bills had to pass out of their house of origin in order to move forward. The next …
April 16, 2021 Welcome to the end of week 11 of the Nevada Legislative Session! There is only 46 days left to go, so let’s keep hanging in there. The deadline for the committee passage was last week, so no new bills have been heard, but some of the bills we’re supporting made it through. …
Black America needed this. We needed these years of relief. We needed a reminder that our labor, our organizing, our prayers, our lament and our Black Lives are not in vain. We needed this verdict, a small step towards justice, to say that #GeorgeFloyd was a man. A man due the respect and dignity imbued …
The Nevada Legislative Session is a period of time––biennium (once every two years), usually 120 calendar days, in which legislators are convened for the purpose of lawmaking at the state level. This event means that new bills (SB – Senate Bills) or (AB – Assembly Bills) go through a process to then become laws. This …
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April 9, 2021 We have made it to the end of the 10th week with 53 days left to go in the Nevada Legislative Session! This is a special week because it was the first committee passage deadline which means that if a bill did not make it through, then it is dead and will …
April 2, 2021 We made it to the end of the 9th week of the Legislative Session! We are now halfway through with only 60 days left to go. There is one week left until the committee passage deadline on April 9th. The bills introduced this week that we are focused on are AB321, SB254, …
March 26, 2021 Welcome to the 8th week of the Nevada Legislative Session! We have 67 days left until the end, and a lot of new information to cover for this week. The bills that were heard this past week were SB218 and AB213. SB218 from Senator Ratti is a housing bill that provides additional …