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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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The county's current iteration of rental assistance has denied far more applications than it has approved so far.

U.S. maternal mortality rates keep growing, an anomaly compared to other economically similar countries.
If the bill becomes law, the Nevada Funeral and Cemetery Services Board would regulate and oversee any businesses that emerge.
Senate Bill 119 would also require third party insurers to cover telehealth at the same rates as in-person care.
Nevada has long allowed non-attorneys to be JPs and municipal judges, especially in rural areas.
Perhaps as many as three more indictments are headed his way.
Nevada administrators have abandoned plans to survey health care providers about the patients they serve and office wait times.
The decision could affect millions of Americans' access to no-cost preventive health care.
Nevada lawmakers are considering several measures to address skyrocketing rents and regulate rental application fees.
“This bill would require the first document filed with the court in a summary eviction action to be a complaint followed by a response.”
Federal water regulation, and the definition of Waters of the United States, has been a politically fraught issue for years.
Nevada’s electric company is one step closer to sticking customers with the bill for a massive $2.5 billion transmission line project.
Only Texas, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida had lower in-state answer rates.
“We do not want to be a net exporter of physicians.”
Jobs in food service, retail, caregiving, child care, janitorial services and the hospitality industries are essential to our economy.
Republicans criticized nutrition’s “outsized” proportion of farm bill spending as they lobbied for tightened allocations to SNAP.
“Anyone who wants or needs a mail-in ballot should have the right to request and receive one.”
Undocumented immigrants are federally barred from enrolling in Medicaid or buying insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
Now, the continuation of community-based programs, many provided by non-profit organizations, is in doubt.
The bill limits annual increases to be 60% of the yearly Consumer Price Index, the main measure of inflation.