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Lawmakers Eye More Money For Rental Assistance Program While County Struggles To Approve Applicants
The county's current iteration of rental assistance has denied far more applications than it has approved so far.
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Postpartum Medicaid Expansion Is The First Step To Maternal Health Equity, Experts Say
U.S. maternal mortality rates keep growing, an anomaly compared to other economically similar countries.
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Nevada May Become The Latest State To Allow Human Composting After Death
If the bill becomes law, the Nevada Funeral and Cemetery Services Board would regulate and oversee any businesses that emerge.
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Legislation Would Make Pandemic-Era Expansion Of Telehealth Services Permanent
Senate Bill 119 would also require third party insurers to cover telehealth at the same rates as in-person care.
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Bill That Would Require Schooling For Fiore And Others Opposed By Rural Judges
Nevada has long allowed non-attorneys to be JPs and municipal judges, especially in rural areas.
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Purportedly ‘Historic' Indictment Actually Tackles Trump At His Most Insipid
Perhaps as many as three more indictments are headed his way.
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Plan To Collect Health Care Provider Data Scrapped To Align With Governor's Executive Order
Nevada administrators have abandoned plans to survey health care providers about the patients they serve and office wait times.
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U.S. Judge Rules Insurers Don't Have To Cover Many Free Preventive Health Services
The decision could affect millions of Americans' access to no-cost preventive health care.
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Rent Stabilization For Seniors Among A Handful Of Bills Proposed To Address Housing Crisis
Nevada lawmakers are considering several measures to address skyrocketing rents and regulate rental application fees.
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Flipping NV's Unique Eviction Process, Bill Would Make Landlords, Not Tenants, File In Court First
“This bill would require the first document filed with the court in a summary eviction action to be a complaint followed by a response.”
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Rosen, Cortez Masto Join Republicans To Undo Biden Rule On Wetlands
Federal water regulation, and the definition of Waters of the United States, has been a politically fraught issue for years.
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NV Energy Gets Green Light To Seek Rate Hikes For Greenlink
Nevada’s electric company is one step closer to sticking customers with the bill for a massive $2.5 billion transmission line project.
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Nevada 988 Hotline In-State Answer Rates Among Nation's Lowest
Only Texas, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida had lower in-state answer rates.
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Tax Credits Eyed As Means To Ease State's Doctor Shortage
“We do not want to be a net exporter of physicians.”
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The Cost Of Degrading Low-Wage Workers
Jobs in food service, retail, caregiving, child care, janitorial services and the hospitality industries are essential to our economy.
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USDA Secretary Battles With U.S. House Republicans Over Costs Of Federal Nutrition Programs
Republicans criticized nutrition’s “outsized” proportion of farm bill spending as they lobbied for tightened allocations to SNAP.
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Voter ID, Public Money For Private Schools, Top Lombardo's Legislative Agenda
“Anyone who wants or needs a mail-in ballot should have the right to request and receive one.”
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Proposal To Expand Medicaid To Undocumented Immigrants Draws Criticism From Republicans
Undocumented immigrants are federally barred from enrolling in Medicaid or buying insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
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Bill To Beef Up Childrens' Behavioral Health Services Watered Down
Now, the continuation of community-based programs, many provided by non-profit organizations, is in doubt.
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Mobile Home Park Residents Urge Lawmakers To Stabilize Rents: ‘We Are In Dire Need'
The bill limits annual increases to be 60% of the yearly Consumer Price Index, the main measure of inflation.
