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Public Option Bodes Ill for Nevada Taxpayers and Constitution – Nevada Globe
This year, one issue sure to be discussed among citizens and candidates across Nevada is affordable health care. But is a taxpayer-backed health insurance system that will bring higher costs really the solution to Nevada’s challenges?
The answer is no.
Nevada’s so-called “public option” will threaten patients’ access to care while exposing taxpayers to unneeded risk — and state legislators rushed into the idea so quickly that it might not even be legal.
In 2021, Nevada lawmakers pushed through Senate Bill 420 to create the public option despite warnings from health care leaders that it would hurt access and affordability and burden providers.
With the bill moving toward implementation, it is critical for Nevadans to understand that, in addition to the negative consequences SB420 will have for health coverage and care, it was also enacted in violation of the state constitution.
That is why we recently joined together to file a lawsuit challenging SB420. Our lawsuit, which asks the court to stop the implementation of SB420, because it violates three provisions of the Nevada Constitution: the requirement for a two-thirds majority in both chambers of the legislature to pass a bill that increases public revenue, the appropriations clause, and the separation of powers principle.
While Nevada’s current administration has proposed moving ahead with SB420’s implementation via a market stabilization program, this approach does not change the fundamental problems with the bill and how it was enacted.
As federal regulators consider the state’s proposal to move ahead with this risky, unaffordable new health insurance system, we will continue pursuing our case in court.
Nevadans deserve access to high-quality, affordable health coverage and care — and they also deserve to have their constitutional rights upheld. SB420 fails on both fronts. Nevada can do better.
This opinion editorial is authored by Nevada State Senator Robin Titus (SD-17) and Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union.
SUN VALLEY, Nev. (KOLO) – Ulysses Development Group and state and local leaders celebrated the grand opening Tuesday of The Ridge at Sun Valley, a 195-unit affordable housing community and the first project in Nevada to close financing using funds from the Home Means Nevada Initiative.
The community serves individuals and families earning 50-60% of area median income. Nevada State Treasurer Zach Conine said rent for the units stays below 30 percent of a renter’s income.
“These are apartments that people can pay for and they can still have money left over for groceries and medicine and all the other things they need in their life,” Conine said.
Historic funding milestone
The project marks a milestone as Nevada’s first to use Home Means Nevada Initiative funding. During the pandemic, Nevada allocated $500 million from COVID funds to create the initiative, the most allocated by any state in the union for affordable housing, Conine said.
“That initiative put $500,000,000 into affordable housing,” Conine said.
Washoe County Board of County Commissioners District 3 member Mariluz Garcia said 49 percent of people in Reno are cost burdened by housing costs.
Community amenities and design
The units include washers and dryers, according to apartment manager Hailee Penberthy. Community amenities include a toddler playground, gazebo and grill, picnic tables, pet stations, a heated pool and a 24/7 gym, Penberthy said.
The development was designed with green elements including a solar energy system and Energy Star building standards.
Penberthy said the units are over 50 percent occupied.
Nevada Infrastructure Coordinator Chris Reilly, Nevada Housing Division Administrator Steve Aichroth and Ridge at Sun Valley resident Jaidyn Avalos also spoke at the event.
She says she enjoys the mountain views and the people she now calls her neighbors.
The Ridge at Sun Valley is located at 5100 W 1st Ave in Sun Valley.
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On December 1, 2025, during Nevada’s 36th Special Session, the Legislature enacted Senate Bill No. 7, sponsored by Senator Nicole Cannizzaro. The act amends NRS 617.455, which governs when diseases of the lungs are treated as occupational diseases resulting in compensation for temporary or permanent disability or death for certain firefighters, arson investigators, police officers and volunteer firefighters. The act becomes effective upon passage and approval.
A fourth grade student from Nevada helped light the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree on Tuesday evening.
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Grady Armstrong, a fourth grader from Virginia City, Nevada, helped U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and members of the Nevada Congressional Delegation light the Capitol Christmas tree on Tuesday night.
The tree is a 53-foot-tall red fir from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada. It’s the first time in 61 years that a tree from Nevada is featured on the West Lawn of the Capitol.
The tree traveled roughly 3,000 miles to D.C., and is decorated with about 6,000 LED lights and more than 5,000 ornaments, many of them made by children from across Nevada.
Armstrong earned the honor of lighting the tree after winning an essay contest.
“You don’t have to go far to enjoy Nevada. Right from my school playground, you can look east for hundreds of miles over the mountain ranges that make up the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest,” he said.
“I want the country to know how special Nevada’s public land and national forests are. These lands are full of wonder, from big animals like elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep and even moose,” Armstrong added.
The tree, nicknamed “Silver Belle” as a nod to Nevada being the “Silver State,” will be lit from dusk until 11 p.m. every night through early January 2026.
WTOP’s Alan Etter contributed to this report.
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