Police reforms, education funding revamp survive late-stage deadline at Nevada Legislature Reno-Gazette-Journal 2 hrs ago James DeHaven, Reno Gazette Journal
Efforts to overhaul Nevada’s school funding formula and limit no-knock warrants survived another major deadline at the Legislature, where lawmakers on Friday coolly and quickly culled dozens of bills from a stack of legislation set for a final vote over the next two weeks.
Death penalty opponents, who have spent decades trying to end capital punishment in Nevada, were not amused. The Nevada ACLU issued a searing statement calling the move “an embarrassment,” while progressive activists jammed the phone lines at a series of unrelated committee hearings to protest the bill’s demise.