The 120-day Nevada legislative session ended on June 5. Here is a look at some of the legislation KUNR has been following that’s been signed into law or vetoed.
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Listen as KUNR “Morning Edition” host Noah Glick checks in with political editor Paul Boger on Friday, Apr. 30.
Noah Glick: Well, let’s talk about innovation zones. You know, that’s been a topic that we’ve been talking about quite a bit. So earlier this week, Governor Sisolak and Democratic leaders in the legislature announced they will study the measure over the next couple of years. What happened there?
Paul Boger: All right, so let’s recap, shall we? Innovation zones are this proposal that Governor Steve Sisolak mentioned in his State of the State in January. We didn’t get a whole lot of information at that time, but as the session began and a few weeks in, we did see the language of the bill for the innovation zones. . [That bill] would have given tech companies the ability to essentially buy large parcels of land and form their own county governments.