FYI On April 11, 2025 there was a deadline that removed bills that didn’t get a hearing. None of these bills were removed.
AB540 Nevada Attainable Housing Account- Governor Lombardo
The bill states the following: Nevada Attainable Housing Account and setting up of money in accounts requiring, with certain exceptions, an eligible entity to provide or secure certain matching funds as a condition of receiving money from the account; exempting any attainable housing project from provisions of law relating to public works and the payment of prevailing wages; requiring the Administrator of the Housing Division of the Department of Business and Industry to adopt an allocation plan for attainable housing; creating and setting forth the duties of the Nevada Attainable Housing Council; authorizing the Division to establish programs for the reporting of rental payments to credit reporting agencies; providing that attainable housing projects that receive financial assistance from the Nevada State Infrastructure Bank are not subject to prevailing wage requirements; revising provisions governing the sale, lease or conveyance of certain real property by the governing body of a county or city; requiring the governing body of a county or city to adopt certain expedited processes relating the attainable housing; revising the definition of certain tiers of affordable housing. The bill provides that the provisions of law that require the payment of prevailing wages to skilled labor apply to any contract for construction work on a qualified project if all or part of the costs of the qualified project are paid for using a loan or other financial assistance from the bank.
This bill provides an exception so that the requirement to pay prevailing wages do not apply to any contract for construction work on a qualified project relating to attainable housing if the qualified borrower demonstrates that the qualified project addresses a need for critical infrastructure in an area with a shortage of attainable housing. The bill also authorizes the bank to give a preference for approval to such a qualified project if the qualified borrower, contractor and subcontractors agree to pay prevailing wages.
Nevada State AFL-CIO opposed the bill stating “When we talk about bridging the Nevada housing gap, there are two sides to that bridge.One side is housing supply. The other is wages sufficient to afford the housing available in your community. When the government exempts public dollars from prevailing wages, they drive down wages for the whole region, which hurts working families. When construction workers on affordable housing projects can’t afford housing themselves because they are being underpaid, the housing gap only gets wider. Solving the problem requires addressing both sides of the gap. Southern Nevada Desert Pines and Northern Nevada Carville Park Apartments are shining examples of how affordable housing should be developed, providing more than 1600 units of housing. The AFL-CIO, and its 150,000-plus members, strongly oppose AB540.
AB 81 Stop the Clock Assemblymember Hatch
The State of Nevada exempts itself from being required to change to Daylight Saving Time. This would mean that the State would stay on Standard Time for the entire year. This would start July 1,2026. When the country started doing this more than 50 years ago,we were all on Standard time but we added Daylight Saving Time so that is the only one we can remove. This bill passed out with three nays.
AB73 Introduced, Communications relating to elections and Synthetic Media Cisco Aguilera, Secretary of State
Any communication made in support of or opposition to a candidate, group of candidates, or political party or that solicits contributions for the same, that which includes any form of synthetic media in the communication must disclose the communication in a clear and conspicuous manner. The bill states as an example, This (image/video/audio) has been manipulated. If a civil penalty is imposed for a violation of the requirements, the amount to the violation can not exceed $50,000 of each violation.
AB343 Introduced, Hospital Pricing of Goods and Services Assembly member Yeager
This bill requires hospitals to publish pricing for certain goods and services.In 2019 President Trump signed an Executive Order for this issue. Biden issued an update to the order in 2022. Then on 2/2025 President Trump added an enforcement clause. Some of Nevada hospitals are compliant but this has been a slow process. This bill codifies similar requirements into Nevada Law. The bill requires the hospital to also publish and update annually a list of standard charges for all items and services they provide.
Mesquite City Council meeting 4/08/25 by Linda Perkowski
Ceremonial Matters – Building Safety, National public works and National Public Safety.
Telecommunicators week. Acting Chief Fails gave a presentation on how grateful we are to have those dedicated people that answer 911 calls everyday on peoples worst days. He also included our Animal Control employees and volunteers.
Public Comments – Comments were made regarding the City Managers racial slurs and comments. It seems like they are just sweeping that under the rug with a written warning from the City Mayor.
Consent Agenda – aside from the regular budget, paid bills and purchase orders there was discussion about a block grant of $254,249.00 for use on the Woodbury All Wheels Skate Park Project. This final allotment has been delayed and they are just waiting for it to go through the payment process which has slowed down a bit.
Special Items – 3.1 Presentation of Mesquite Public Arts Commission 5 year plan. Presented a five year plan to the Council. They are proceeding with trying to create a butterfly pollination area within the arts district.
The new mural on the Jimmy Hughes building in front of the Mesquite Theater is finished and very impressive.
3.2 – Presentation from George and Mindy Creamer for the purchase of 9 acres of City owned property for a strip mall at 1220 Hardy Way. I believe this is the same parcel that the pickle ball courts were presented a few weeks ago. It seems like the public is more supportive of the pickleball courts.
3.3 – Presentation from Richard Weldin on the purchase of 44.97 acres of City Owned Property near the camel refuge. He owns the adjacent property and would like to preserve the area with a rv park or something that the community could enjoy. This area is restrictive in terms of what can be built there due to it being in a flood area. Public seemed to support this plan.
3.4 and 3.5 – These were two different presentations given for the same 15 acre parcel of City owned property adjacent to the Hospital. The Hospital wants to purchase this for expansion of services and so does the Commonwealth Development Corporation for the low income Senior Housing.
The Hospital claims they did not know that the Senior Housing project was planned, however they had the first right of refusal which they let expire and have no claim to the parcel.
The Council approved the Senior Housing Development and encouraged both parties to see if they could come up with plan to allow the hospital to purchase a small portion of the parcel that is attached to another city owned parcel, however significant grading would need to be done because that parcel is on an elevated parcel of property.
4 – Appraisal for the 44.97 Acres discussed in item three were presented and the City voted that it is in the best interest of Mesquite to sell the parcel.
5 – No council or department reports.
6 – Introduction of Bills.
6.1 – Consideration of allowing changes to Mesquite Municipal Code Chapter 10 “Signs” The entire code will be rewritten to make it simple and allow small businesses some latitude with that regard. The preliminary language was discussed and will be presented in its final form at a future meeting.
7.1 Consideration of an extension of time of 24 months for “The Retreat at Mesquite” No public comments – passed.
7.2 Consideration of Police Chief residency requirement – Discussion was heard about making it a requirement for the Chief of Police to live within Mesquite City limits. Some public comment though we should grandfather clause the requirement. That was not received well and the bill passed to require COM Police Chief to live in Mesquite City Limits.
7.3 & 7.4 Public Right of Way on Canyon Crest from Canyon Crest LLC and L&B Holdings no public comment, passed.
7.5 – Consideration of Resolution adopting Contract between COM & Regional Transportation Commision of Southern Nevada for Canyon Crest Boulevard and Horizon Boulevard Roadway Improvements – no public comment – passed.
7.6 Consideration and approval of Interlocal Contract between COM and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for the Mesquite Boulevard and Sandhill Boulevard Old Mill and Overlay Project. – no public comment – passed.
8.0 Public Comments – Ann Bley gave a report on the indivisible protest on April 5th and thanked the police for their presence and our protection.