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Voted for Senate Bill 324, a bill to ban selling water in small disposable plastic bottles in communities bordering Lake Tahoe. The Nevada Senate passed it 16-4, but the Assembly never voted on it, so it never became law.

April 18, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 88, which bars collecting medical debt from people after they leave prison. The Nevada Senate passed the debt-wiping version 14-7, and the bill was later signed into law as a ban on collecting the debt.

May 21, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Assembly Bill 155, a bill to make student-teacher ratios something school districts must negotiate with unions. The Nevada Senate passed it 16-4, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 23, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 217, a bill to bar schools from letting federal immigration officers on school grounds without a warrant. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-6, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 23, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted for Assembly Bill 527, which lets school districts put cameras on school buses to catch drivers who pass a stopped bus. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-5, and the bill was signed into law.

May 23, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 193, a bill to put $10 million into lowering mortgage rates for first-time buyers. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-5, but the Assembly never voted on it, so it never became law.

May 28, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Assembly Bill 121, which makes landlords offer a fee-free way to pay rent and list rent as one figure including all fees. The Nevada Senate passed it 16-5, and the bill was signed into law.

May 23, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Assembly Bill 185, a bill to stop homeowners associations banning licensed child care homes. The Nevada Senate passed it 16-4, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 23, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Assembly Bill 155, a bill to make student-teacher ratios something school districts must negotiate with unions. The Nevada Senate passed it 16-4, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 23, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Assembly Bill 589, a bill to bar governments from collecting or sharing data identifying people with autism. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-7, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 29, 2025Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for Assembly Bill 488, a bill to widen when a human trafficking victim can have a conviction erased. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-7, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 23, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 420, which makes school districts publish a yearly report on force used by their own police. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-6, and the bill was signed into law.

May 21, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted against Assembly Bill 597, a bill to let voters with no party pick one major party's primary ballot. The Nevada Senate passed it 12-9, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 282, a bill to make hospitals and doctors investigate disputed medical bill charges within 30 days. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 414, a bill to add air quality duties to the safety programs of large warehouse-type workplaces. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 259, a bill to bar charging more than the Medicare negotiated price for those drugs in Nevada. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 416, a bill to stop schools and public libraries removing library materials because of their content. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 204, a bill to bar medical debt collectors from threatening arrest, home liens or bank account seizures. The Nevada Senate passed it 12-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 540, which puts $133 million of state money into a new attainable housing fund. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-6, and the bill was signed into law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 460, which gives parents a form for naming a guardian to raise their child if they cannot. The Nevada Senate passed it 16-4, and the bill was signed into law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 483, which moves health license applications to the front of the line for people committed to working in underserved communities. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-6, and the bill was signed into law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 123, which makes threatening a candidate for public office a crime. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-7, and the bill was signed into law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 105, a bill to make carrying a gun at or within 100 feet of a polling place a crime. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 30, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 260, which starts state rules protecting workers from wildfire smoke when the air quality index reaches 150. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-6, and the bill was signed into law.

May 30, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 156, a bill to create a Special Counsel for the Prevention of Gun Violence in the Attorney General's office. The Nevada Senate passed it 11-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 28, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 85, a bill to make Nevada's collection of traffic stop data permanent. The Nevada Senate passed it 11-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 28, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 63, the Youth Online Safety Act, a bill to bar online platforms using minors' data to pick their content and ads. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the Senate never voted on the Assembly's changed version, so it never became law.

May 27, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 391, a bill to cap corporate purchases of Nevada homes at 100 a year. Nevada requires a two-thirds majority for a bill that creates a fee, so the Senate's 13-8 vote was not enough and the bill failed.

May 27, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 112, a bill to let union-covered workers use earned sick leave to care for family members. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-6, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 23, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 194, which bans releasing balloons that float away, with fines up to $250. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, and the bill was signed into law.

May 23, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 343, which makes hospitals publish their standard charges and a list of 300 shoppable services. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, and the bill was signed into law.

May 23, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 496, a bill to make county clerks publish daily mail ballot counts and names of voters with questioned signatures. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 434, a bill to bar employers from punishing workers who skip meetings pushing the employer's religious or political views. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 209, a bill to give people in prostitution immunity from prosecution when evidence came from their own call for help. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-7, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 182, a bill to write maximum patients per nurse into law for large Clark and Washoe County hospitals. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 283, a bill to make landlords, not tenants, file first in fast-track eviction cases. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 44, a bill to make manipulating the price of food, housing, fuel or medicine an illegal restraint of trade. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 445, a bill to give library staff immunity for good faith acts of providing access to library materials. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-7, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 39, which sets up a state loan fund for work that reduces damage from disasters. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, and the bill was signed into law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 241, which requires every county and city to allow apartment buildings on land zoned for business. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-6, and the bill was signed into law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 96, which makes counties of 100,000 or more people include an extreme heat plan in their master plan. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-7, and the bill was signed into law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 140, a bill to end the fixed four-year life of a driver authorization card. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 244, a bill to ban polystyrene foam food containers, starting with large restaurant chains in October 2025. The Nevada Senate passed it 16-4, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 411, a bill to let abortion pill prescription labels carry the practice name instead of the prescriber's. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 223, a bill to give renters a faster court route to force repairs and hold back rent. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 201, a bill to seal more eviction court records from public view. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 280, a bill to make landlords refund application fees when they rent to someone else without doing the check. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 480, a bill to write the disparate impact standard into Nevada's fair housing law. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 245, a bill to bar people under 21 from having a semiautomatic shotgun or centerfire rifle. The Nevada Senate passed it 12-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 235, which lets reproductive health workers and others hide their home address in public records. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-7, and the bill was signed into law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 161, which gives teachers' unions and school districts a binding arbitration option when a contract expires. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-6, and the bill was signed into law.

May 19, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 89, a bill to bar people convicted of hate crimes from buying or owning a gun. The Nevada Senate passed it 12-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 19, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 90, which extends the rights of children in state custody to regional treatment facilities. The Nevada Senate passed it 12-8, and the bill was signed into law.

May 19, 2025

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Voted against Assembly Bill 306, a bill to require at least 10 mail ballot drop-off sites in Clark County and 5 in Washoe County. The Nevada Senate passed it 12-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

May 12, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 410, a bill to make dependents' insurance part of what local governments must negotiate with unions. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-6, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 128, a bill to bar health insurers from relying on artificial intelligence alone to deny care. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-6, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 171, a bill to shield providers of lawful gender-affirming care from licensing punishment and out-of-state probes. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 284, which stops the state using a foster child's own Social Security or veterans benefits to pay for their care. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-7, and the bill was signed into law.

April 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 166, which bars insurers from refusing or repricing a policy based on a dog's breed. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-7, and the bill was signed into law.

April 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 188, which requires health providers to give free, accurate language help to patients who do not speak English well. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, and the bill was signed into law.

April 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 155, a bill to let non-citizens authorized to work who served as police elsewhere be hired as peace officers. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-7, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 18, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 99, a bill to let Lake Tahoe local governments charge builders a fee on large new homes for affordable housing. The Nevada Senate passed it 14-6, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 18, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 414, a bill to make public officials disclose any company stock worth $5,000 or more. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 16, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 301, a bill to let state peace officers outside the civil service join state employee collective bargaining. The Nevada Senate passed it 15-6, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 16, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 141, a bill to make every jail write a policy for transgender, non-binary and intersex prisoners. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 16, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 102, a bill to make filing a false election document or serving as a fake presidential elector a felony. The Nevada Senate passed it 13-8, but the governor vetoed the bill, so it never became law.

April 15, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 370, which puts a deadline on replacing the ownership papers for a manufactured home. The Nevada Senate passed it 16-5, and the bill was signed into law.

April 15, 2025

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Was first elected to the Nevada Senate in November 2018 and has served Senate District 14 since then.

November 6, 2018

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Served in the Nevada Assembly from 2011 to 2017.

January 1, 2017

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Served as Assistant Majority Floor Leader in 2015.

January 1, 2015

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