The 360 Legislative Summary Week of April 18, 2021
This week we discussed a few new bills as well as prepared for the next steps in the legislative process. Below is the list of bills discussed in case you are interested in following or testifying on any of the bills as they make their rounds through the process. You can access the bills on NELIS, the Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System, which you can access at this link: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/81st2021
TIP: Search all bills by choosing All bills and resolutions for the 81st Session and then typing in the bill number with NO SPACES (ex: AB321, SB200, et al)
Many bills have already had a committee hearing. The deadline to pass bills out of committee to a floor vote was April 9th. The next deadline is April 20th where bills that passed out of committee and were passed by the house in which they were introduced go to the next house for debate and discussion by the other house.
BILLS THAT PASSED COMMITTEE AND HOUSE OF INTRODUCTION
The following bills made it out of the 1st house and are on their way to the 2nd House. The bill numbers are linked so that you can monitor progress and where the bills land on the other side.
AB 16 – (HHS) -prohibits charging a fee for vital documents to certain persons
AB 395 - (JUD) – abolishes the death penalty
SB 16 – (GA) – establishes the Nevada Commission on Minority Affairs
SB 28 – (GA) – Revises provisions to Military Code adding sexual harassment as an offense
SB 212 – (Harris) – revises provisions to use of force by police officers
SB 346 – (Neal) -revises provisions to the tax code to capture revenue from digital goods
To find any of the listed bills:
1. Go to leg.state.nv.us
2. Click NELIS in the top-right corner.
3. Choose Legislation and a drop-down menu will appear
4. Select “Assembly Bills” for bills starting with AB or “Senate Bills” for bills starting with SB
5. Enter the bill number with no spaces or punctuation (ex. AB321)
6. Hit Enter
BILLS STILL WAITING FOR COMMITTEE or 1ST HOUSE PASSAGE:
The below listed bills still awaiting committee and/or house passage. The bill numbers are linked to the NELIS page for information on the progress of the bill.
SB 340 – (Neal) revises provisions of the wages and working conditions of home health workers
SB 254 – (Neal) –“ban-the-box” for housing applications
SB 327 – (Neal) -revises provisions related to hair discrimination
SB 341-(Spearman) -revises provisions related to healthcare and the Office of Minority Health
SB 302 – Spearman) – Revises provisions related to government administration and establishes the Kidney Disease Task Force
AB 286 – (Jauregui) – establishes a gun trespass offense
SB 190 – (Cannizzaro) - allows pharmacists to prescribe birth control
SB 200 – (Harris) – establishes a pension plan for private sector employees
SB 275 – (Harris) – modernizes laws related to HIV
OTHER UPCOMING BILLS
The following bills will have a hearing in scheduled in the opposite house from which they were introduced. The bills listed are not an exhaustive list of bills but the ones we were tracking or gave information about on The 360. Check out the Legislative Calendar link on mpower360.org or NELIS. You can also reference our “Guide to Legislative Engagement” for a step-by-step process.
Bills (tracked) that were exempt from the 1st Committee Passage deadline:
· AB 322 – social event licenses for cannabis
· AB 388 – low-income housing assistance
· AB 230 – direct filing of youth into adult system
· AB 88 - changes to government entities
· AB 97 – governing toxic chemicals
· AB 108 – creates Office of Inspector General
· AB 224 – governing landlords and tenants
· AB 336 – requiring behavioral health exams for police officers
· AB 256 – Medicaid coverage for doulas
BILLS THAT PASSED THE 1st COMMITTEE:
Senate Bills:
· SB 148 – related to the reporting of hate crimes
· SB 143
· SB 150
· SB 236
· SB 268
· SB 211
· SB 289
· SB 237
· SB 346
· SB 254
· SB 340
· SB 310
· SB 255
· SB 327
· SB 320
· SB 314
· SB 8
· SB 187
· SB 302
· SB 110
· SB 109
· SB 297
· SB 123
· SB 341
· SB 267
· SB 145
· SB 188
· SB 846
DON’T forget that you can submit your opinion on any bill outside of the hearing at the opinion link available on NELIS. You can submit an opinion up to 48 hours after a bill hearing.
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/81st2021/
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The bills we selected to include on “The 360” Legislative RoundUp are bills that have significant implications for communities of color. Many of the bills introduced during the legislative session impact communities of color and it is important to follow the process on bills that may have profound direct or unintended consequences for communities of color. Key issues like healthcare access, criminal justice, reproductive justice or economic issues tend to have dire impacts on specific groups. Our intent is to make the community aware of these bills so they can follow them and advocate for or against them during the session and also complete the process by measuring their impact and effectiveness after implementation. Moving the needle for racial justice is imperative since our legislature only meets once every two years for 120 days. Everything in the previous and following biennium needs to be legislated. If the community is not involved in the process, it takes two years to change anything that was passed.