Summary

Meg Fitzgerald serves as the Student Actualization and Engagement Graduation Specialist for the Honors College, where she supports students on their journey to successfully graduating with Honors.

With a strong focus on honors advising and student engagement, Meg is deeply committed to fostering student success and helping each student reach their full potential. Throughout her decades-long career, her guiding goal has always been to empower students to thrive academically and personally.

In her free time, Meg enjoys traveling with her family, experimenting with new recipes, and reading.

Education

M.Ed in Counseling, Northern Arizona University
B.A. in Psychology, The College of New Jersey

CARSON CITY — With less than half an hour until the end of the legislative session, lawmakers voted to send a budget funding capital improvement projects to Gov. Joe Lombardo’s desk — the last budget bill the Legislature is constitutionally required to pass.

Senate Bill 502 would pay for about $1.56 billion worth of projects, $1.1 billion financed through bonds.

It faced hurdles Monday after the Senate did not concur on an amendment that would have provided up to $50 million of general obligation bonds for attainable housing projects. The Assembly had first approved the amendment Sunday in a 38-4 vote, but it receded the amendment around 11:40 p.m., or else it would have faced going into a special session.

Before the housing amendment was removed, Assemblymembers Sandra Jauregui and Daniele Monroe-Moreno urged their colleagues to support the amended bill late Sunday night. It would have created the Nevada Attainable Housing Infrastructure Account for housing development projects. Up to $50 million of general obligation bonds would have been deposited in the account in the 2025-2027 biennium to be used for loans.

“With this amendment, we are keeping our promise to focus on affordable, attainable housing this legislative session,” Jauregui, D-Las Vegas, said Sunday night. “With the amendment, we are making sure that we are going to fund those projects that will help the affordability of housing in our state, and I want to thank the housing division and the executive branch for the hours that we have worked together to make this possible.”

Republican Assemblymembers Heidi Kasama, Danielle Gallant, Ken Gray and Jill Dickman voted in opposition Sunday.

In a statement, Kasama said she was concerned with structural deficits that were not resolved when the vote took place.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Contact Jessica Hill at jehill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @jess_hillyeah on X.

Today, June 2, 2025, the 83rd Nevada Legislative Session ends. Several key processes take place. Bills passed by both the Nevada Assembly and Senate during the session are sent to the Governor for approval. The Governor has five days to sign or veto bills if presented before the session ends, or ten days if presented after adjournment, excluding Sundays. Bills not acted upon within these timeframes become law without the Governor’s signature. The Legislative Counsel Bureau begins compiling and publishing the session’s statutes, updating the Nevada Revised Statutes to reflect new laws, which typically take effect on October 1, 2025, unless otherwise specified. This means we need to tell the Governor he needs to veto at least the following bills before they become law!

The NVGOP sent out this list:

They include this link here to send Governor Lombardo a prepopulated email; it only takes about 30 seconds to do. Send the Governor an email and tell him he needs to veto these before they become law!

https://nevadagop.org/advocacy/?vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f127420%2fRespond

_______________________________________

Speak Up, Nevada! What’s on Your Mind? Send us your opinion!

Got the inside scoop on something happening in Nevada? Or the country? Do you have thoughts about life in Nevada that are too good to keep to yourself? Whether it’s a hot take on our politics, crime, education, or even the secret to surviving our summers, we’re all ears! Swing them our way at editor@thenevadaglobe.com. Come on, give us the scoop on what makes Nevada tick—or what ticks you off. Let’s make some noise and have some fun with it!