What's Cooking at the Legislature?

A recap of our recent reporting plus bonus content.

Feb 19, 2025

This is all with the caveat that these ideas might get watered down, not go through to the governor’s desk or get vetoed by Joe Lombardo, as was his predilection last session, but still it’s nice to see interesting ideas being worked on at our legislature.

These include Assembly Bill 211 to go after unresponsive landlords, allowing a third party to take over a property until repairs are made and living conditions improved.

It would be to provide “a solution to the extreme situation when a property is significantly substandard and all attempts to bring the property to standard are rebuffed and ignored,” the bill’s sponsor Assemblymember Venicia Considine, from District 18 in Clark County, said.

Twenty other states already have similar legislation so it would be nice for Nevada to become just a bit more tenant responsive.

Turning to bike safety, Heather Goulding from Reno’s District 27, has introduced AB 168 which would create for cyclists “an exception to the requirement to stop in obedience to a stop sign if the person can safely proceed through the intersection without stopping,” in other words, getting to treat stop signs as yield signs.

This is for allowing what’s known as the Idaho stop which increases biker safety at intersections. It first became a law in Idaho in 1982, while recently being adopted in other states.

On Instagram, this week, Erica Roth, from Reno’s District 24, posted a video with a caption indicating she just introduced AB 235, as “reproductive healthcare workers have faced increasing threats since Roe v. Wade was overturned—with incidents of stalking increasing by over 900%. These threats have only continued to increase under a Trump presidency.”

She previously explained to us the aim of this bill is to keep the addresses of abortion providers hidden.

What early legislative work are you noticing?