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The Legislature also moved ahead with a popular effort to cap fees charged by online food delivery platforms such as Doordash, Postmates and Uber Eats, as well as a measure that will make it easier to build so-called “tiny homes” in residential neighborhoods. But they did not take action on a pair of proposals to permanently expand mail-in voting and adopt a primary election system to replace Nevada’s party-run caucuses. Both were moved to a budget committee on Monday. Those bills, like nearly 200 others declared exempt from legislative rules last week, may still get a vote before the state’s latest legislative session ends on May 31. ....
gdornan@nevadaappeal.com A dozen Senate and Assembly Republicans joined forces Tuesday to introduce legislation that would sharply increase the penalties for crimes committed during a riot. AB168 would generally raise existing misdemeanors to a gross misdemeanor and gross misdemeanors to Category E felonies the lowest category of felonies. But if the assault on an officer is committed with a deadly weapon, the penalty would be a Category B felony, the second most serious category of crimes after murder and kidnaping. Under the proposed legislation, it would be a felony for seven or more people to come together to commit an unlawful assembly or riot. ....