Governor Sisolak signed several bills into law on Tuesday, including bills in support of women's health and criminal justice reform.
The following is a list of some of those bills:
Women's health:
- Assembly Bill 196 - Sponsored by Assemblywoman Benitez-Thompson and presented with Lt. Governor Kate Marshall and Jennifer Richards, a disability rights attorney, this bill requires each courthouse to contain a lactation room that may be used by members of the public to express breast milk – separate from a bathroom.
- Assembly Bill 224 - Sponsored by Assemblywoman Duran, this legislation requires middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools to provide feminine hygiene products in school bathrooms at no cost to the students. An evaluation related to how accessible these products are will be included in a school’s annual accountability reports.
- Senate Bill 190 - Sponsored by Senator Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, this legislation will allow women to receive birth control through a pharmacy and bypass a doctor’s visit by requiring our Chief Medical Officer to issue a standing prescription order.
Criminal and social justice reform:
- Senate Bill 219 - Sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Cannizzaro and presented with Leisa Mosley from Fines and Fees Justice Center, this bill removes a court’s authority to suspend a driver’s license or prohibit a defendant from applying for a driver’s license as the result of any delinquent fine, administrative assessment, fee, or restitution the defendant owes.
- Assembly Bill 116 – Sponsored by Assemblywoman Nguyen and presented again with Leisa Mosley and Alex Wong, a Nevada Youth Legislator, this legislation will decriminalize minor traffic violations, making them civil infractions and end the practice of issuing warrants when an individual can’t afford to pay the fines, fees and assessments.
- Assembly Bill 371 - Sponsored by Assemblywoman Miller, this legislation is aimed at creating a safe and responsible learning environment for all students. This legislation allows reported incidents that pertain to discrimination to have a process in which there is a formal investigation.
- Assembly Bill 132 - Sponsored by Assemblyman Flores, this legislation requires a peace or probation officer who takes a child into custody to make certain disclosures to the child concerning his or her rights before initiating a custodial interrogation.
Additional bills:
- Assembly Bill 404 - Sponsored by Assembly Committee on Judiciary, Allows an applicant for a temporary or extended order for protection against domestic violence to decline to disclose his or her address and contact information in an application under certain circumstances.
- Senate Bill 177 - Sponsored by Julia Ratti, among other provisions, revises the eligibility of nonprofit organizations that provide services for victims of domestic violence to receive grants from the Account for Aid for Victims of Domestic Violence and renames the Account as the Account for Aid for Victims of Domestic or Sexual Violence
- Senate Bill 283 - Sponsored by Senator Chris Brooks, Authorizes the governing body of a municipality to create a district to finance or refinance qualified improvement projects for energy efficiency, renewable energy, resiliency, or water efficiency.
He also signed 28 other bills, listed below. You can read up on them at this link here.
- Assembly Bill 7
- Assembly Bill 52
- Assembly Bill 105
- Assembly Bill 115
- Assembly Bill 146
- Assembly Bill 186
- Assembly Bill 230
- Assembly Bill 251
- Assembly Bill 287
- Assembly Bill 343
- Assembly Bill 388
- Assembly Bill 440
- Senate Bill 21
- Senate Bill 44
- Senate Bill 67
- Senate Bill 77
- Senate Bill 215
- Senate Bill 267
- Senate Bill 269
- Senate Bill 276
- Senate Bill 329
- Senate Bill 352
- Senate Bill 354
- Senate Bill 356
- Senate Bill 369
- Senate Bill 386
- Senate Bill 404
- Senate Bill 456
