The 80th session of the Nevada Legislature is set to begin on Monday.
The Assembly is scheduled to gavel in at 11 a.m. and the Senate is scheduled to start at noon.
Leading Democratic state lawmakers say they have no plans to override vetoes by former Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval after Nevada's last legislative session.
Instead, Democrats expect some vetoed legislation to be revisited through new bills, including measures that would ban private prisons and allow courts to vacate low-level marijuana convictions.
In Nevada, bills that are vetoed by the governor within 10 days after a legislative session return for the following session, where they can become law by a two-thirds majority vote in each body.
Nevada Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson said they have no interest in overriding any vetoes, noting Democrats do not have a two-thirds majority in the Senate. Democrats in the Assembly have a two-thirds supermajority.
Sandoval vetoed 15 bills in the 10-day window following the 2017 legislative session. Those measures ranged in topic - one would have raised the state's minimum wage.
“I am thrilled to celebrate the start of a new legislative session today with a supermajority in the Assembly, a majority in the Senate, a historic female-majority state legislature and a Governor who knows how to get things done,” said Nevada State Democratic Party Executive Director Alana Mounce. “Because of the hard work of Democrats across the state, our party made extraordinary gains in 2018 and are now poised to benefit from a state government that works for all Nevadans regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or income. Nevada has always been an independent state known for its fighting spirit and that is exactly what our new leadership embodies.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
