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Nevada Seeking to Switch Caucus to Primary to Become Early Voting State
Nevada Democrats are pushing to shift the state from holding a caucus for presidential elections to a primary system.
Nevada Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson introduced a bill this week that would place the primary elections on the calendar in mid-January of presidential election years.
Frierson said the bill “will lay the groundwork for Nevada to become the first state in the nation in the presidential nominating process.”
If approved, Nevada would leapfrog both New Hampshire and Iowa in the primary order.
The bill would also require Nevada’s top election official to move the primary even earlier if another state in the West tried jumping ahead of Nevada.
Nevada legislative leaders call for federal aid
NEWS: As congress moves closer to passing a new stimulus package, Nevada s leaders plead for inclusion of state and local aid.
and last updated 2021-02-09 10:37:11-05
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) â Measures implemented to control the coronavirus pandemic crippled Nevada s economy in 2020 and continued to batter it at the beginning of 2021.
In announcing Nevada s budget for the 2021 biennium, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak didn t include any federal aid that hadn t been promised, leaving the state roughly $500 million short of the budget passed in the 2019 legislative session.
Chamber leaders from both parties in Carson City said they hoped the new administration under President Joe Biden would come to the rescue with a stimulus package including aid for state and local governments.
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Robert Davis) Nevada’s state lawmakers adopted a slate of new rules this week allowing them to remotely participate in committee hearings, party meetings, and voting.
According to
Assembly Resolution 1, which adopted the standing rules for the 81st Assembly that began Monday, the new rules are intended to “authorize necessary protective and safety measures intended to keep the legislative process as safe and free as reasonably possible from the extraordinary danger, risk, harm, injury and peril posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Known as the Remote Technology Rules, the resolution says it is to be construed liberally and any uncertainty regarding the rules “must be resolved in favor of carrying out the intended public purposes of the Remote Technology Rules.”