F.A.Q.
Death of Paper Ballots
Counties and cities may choose to use Direct Recording Equipment (DRE) or Ballot Marking Devices (BMD) or paper ballots at the polls. There is no impediment to adopting an all-paper ballot system. An all-paper system is considered most secure and most trusted. An all-paper system is consistent with the Voters Bill of Rights: 10) To have a uniform, statewide standard for counting and recounting all votes accurately.
How paper ballots are counted is the secondary issue: By hand or automated? The state’s mechanized reporting requirements benefit from computerized tabulators. This area of law needs attention but there are no bills before the 83rd Legislature to tackle it.
NRS 293.2955 A polling location must have a mechanical recording device for disabled voters; Provide ballots in alternative audio and visual formats for use by a voter who is elderly or a voter with a disability.
NRS 293.296 A voter who by reason of a physical disability or an inability to read or write English is unable to mark a ballot or use any voting device without assistance is entitled to assistance. See Access to digital instructions below.
NRS 293.269951, 293D.200: (1) certain military and overseas electors and voters; (2) certain electors and registered voters with a disability; or (3) certain electors and registered voters who are tribal members may register to vote, request a ballot and cast a ballot using a system of electronic transmission, including NVease.gov, email, self-print and mail, and by fax.
NRS 293.2699 requires election materials be offered in languages related to minorities and Limited English proficiency.
NRS 293.2955, 3.(c) Provide, in alternative audio and visual formats for use by a voter who is elderly or a voter with a disability, all materials that are: (1) Related to the election.
NRS 293.4688 A person may use a mobile device to submit any information or form related to elections that a person may otherwise submit electronically to the Secretary of State.
NRS 293.469 Provides alternative audio and visual formats information concerning the manner of voting for use by a person who is elderly or disabled, including, without limitation, providing such information through a telecommunications device that is accessible to a person who is deaf.
NRS 293.558 2 (b)(2) Distribute a sample ballot to the registered voter by electronic means.
Universal or no-excuse mail ballots are a systemic cause of waste of taxpayer dollars and a source of pollution because many ballots end up in the trash.
Modern day election fraud is sophisticated, involving rotating voter rolls, social security numbers, excess mail ballots, and non-profit organizations dedicated to getting out the vote of people who don’t exist.
SB74: Sections 1 and 28 of this bill require the Secretary of State to allow any registered voter to use the system of approved electronic transmission to apply for and cast a ballot if the registered voter: (1) does not have access to his or her mail ballot; and (2) is unable to go to the polls because of an illness or disability resulting in confinement, hospitalization, serious illness or is suddenly called away from home.
OPPOSE: Expansion of civilian use of the online military registration and voting system to include any voter.
SB74 is a behemoth at 56-pages of detailed tweaks to multiple facets of voter registration, voting, processing ballots, and running for office. It codifies a split system of ‘uniform, statewide standard’ because paper and electronic ballots are two different systems.
Sections 12 and 33 of this bill gut how paper ballots are counted pursuant to NRS 293.363 and 293C.362 and replaces them with NRS 293.269331 and 293C.26331, which have no details on handling paper ballots.
Section 48 of this bill repeals certain provisions that: (1) prohibit a counting board from commencing to count the votes until all ballots are accounted for.
Fiscal Note: This bill has an unfunded mandate local and state. It was not requested by local government.
AB367 Section 16 of this bill provides that a registered voter with a physical disability may also use a mobile device to access interpretive services to assist him or her in casting a vote in an election. Such interpretive services include, without limitation, interpretive services using American Sign Language.
AB367 also expands ‘disability’ to include those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), including illiterates. And mandates a Toll-Free line for non-English speaking voters.
Also, creates the “Language Access Advisory Committee.”
OPPOSE: One of many legislative slight-of-hand proposals to infringe upon county and township rights in pursuit of Top-Down election tyranny by the state and its Secretary; not proven to be necessary.
On foreign language ballots: President Trump signed an Executive Order on March 1, 2025 to make English the official language of the United States of America.
On foreign language ballots: Statistics show the wide majority of LEP voters are Hispanic, and there’s not that many of them across the state. Election materials, including sample ballots,
are already printed in Spanish. The second largest demographic is S. Pacific/Asian for which election materials are printed in Tagalog.
On language assistance: A Toll-Free line to provide language assistance for registration. However, that is redundant to people with cellular phones who use AI assist for language translation, and which is allowed by law.
On illiterates: Illiteracy is on the rise among young adults of voting age in Nevada and elsewhere. Should illiteracy be declared an emergency situation–it’s getting that bad–voting by cell phone via text message or app may be a solution presented down the road for illiterate persons.
On the Language Access Advisory Committee: It is duplicitous to the Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy.
Fiscal Note: This bill was not requested by local government and in fact was detested because of the costs, bureaucracy, and state overreach.
See AB534 in Top-Down Tyranny below.
F.A.Q.
Top-Down Tyranny
Nevada’s Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar filed a lawsuit to intimidate Washoe Commissioners to immediately certify the canvass of the recount of two contested local races in the 2024 primary elections. The majority of commissioners then approved the recounts and the case was closed by the Nevada Supreme Court. The Secretary then followed with an extraordinary petition to re-open the moot case, using threats and intimidation in his legal filing. The state’s high court threw it out for being moot. But the litigious threat posed by the Secretary still lingers.
Which brings us to SB100, a legislative run around. SB100 secretly intends to strip clerks and county commissioners of their right to vote to certify the canvass of an election or not.
But there’s more…
NRS 244.194 states, “Boards of county commissioners may rent, lease or otherwise acquire voting or counting devices in whatever manner will best serve local interests.”
NRS 293B.105 to 120 inclusive grant authority to the county/city to choose equipment: “may purchase and adopt for use at elections any mechanical voting system and mechanical recording device. The system or device may be used at any or all elections held in the county or city, for voting, registering and counting votes cast.” NRS 293B.120 allows for “Experimental use in certain precincts.”
NRS 293.2694 (2) states, “Each board of county commissioners and governing body of an incorporated city in this State may elect to use the ballots, including, without limitation, mail ballots, and return envelopes purchased by the Secretary of State.”
The importance of these statutes is that they memorialize the rights of city/county to conduct local elections with autonomy, including recounts and related costs.
SB100 Provides a penalty for persons charged with elections for failing to carry out such duties in a timely manner; requires notice of foreseeable delay, allows the Secretary to take over in case of delay; citizen petition for a special master; and requiring counties/cities to use Secretary of State approved vendors.
OPPOSE: Secretly intends to strip clerks and county commissioners of their right to vote to certify the canvass of an election or not. For example, if this bill was in effect, a county commissioner or commissioners would be jailed if they did not immediately certify the canvass of a recount of a local election, though the law currently allows them leeway to vote for a delay.
Section 1 of this bill requires a public officer or other person to notify the Secretary of State and the Attorney General if he or she will not be able to perform a duty. If they fail to perform his or her duty in a timely manner , the Secretary of State may: (1) petition the district court for an order relieving that public officer or other person of his or her duties and directing the Secretary of State to perform the duties. The county/city will reimburse the Secretary’s office for its costs. And, any registered voter may file an action with the district court for the county for the appointment of a special master to perform the duties of the public officer or other person.
Section 3 of this bill strips the county/city of its right to choose the systems it uses and pays for.
Voters Bill of Rights at Nevada Constitution Article 2 Section 1A and NRS 293.2546, state voters have a right: “To a uniform, statewide standard for counting and recounting all votes accurately as provided by law.” AB287 chips away at such rights:
1: Limiting the rights of a candidate to request a recount based on a percentage of figures published by the Secretary. Hence, if the true margin of error–to be determined– is greater than five (5) percent then the challenger has no recourse. A candidate in a local race cannot look to his/her county for accurate results.
2: Depriving voters a right to demand a recount and placing the necessity for any recount on a percentage of figures published by the Secretary. Hence, a voter in a local race cannot look to his/her county for accurate results.
3: Sec. 1 (b) authorizes the Secretary to set costs of a recount that a county/city may have to pay. For example, in the case of a local election NRS 293.405 (2.) states, “If the person who demanded the recount prevails… a) If the recount concerns an office or ballot question for which voting is not statewide, the cost must be borne by the county or city which conducted the recount.”
Thus, this bill would penalize a county/city from conducting a reformative recount; reformative being a change of outcome.
There is no language included in the bill regarding sampling ballots in lieu of a proper and full recount pursuant to NRS 293.404 (3) which states, “The recount must include a count and inspection of all ballots, including rejected ballots, and must determine whether all ballots are marked as required by law. All ballots must be recounted in the same manner in which the ballots were originally tabulated.”
AB287 Impacts candidate and voter demands for recounts, shifts burden of costs.
Section 1 authorizes a defeated candidate to demand a recount in certain elections if the difference between the number of votes cast for the candidates is 5 percent or less;
Section 1 eliminates the authority of a voter to demand and receive a recount of the vote for a ballot question; and (2) provides instead that a recount of the vote for a ballot question must be conducted if the difference between the results of the ballot question being approved or disapproved is 0.25 percent or less.
Section 1 additionally requires a recount for an office to be conducted, at no cost to any candidate, if the difference between the number of votes cast between candidates for an office is 0.25 percent or less.
Section 5 of this bill memorializes reliance of the paper audit trail in lieu of an actual ballot when performing a recount.
OPPOSE: Severely limits candidate and voters rights to demand recount, restricts county/city rights to regulate local elections and recounts, adds costs to city/county, .
Voters’ rights to ‘uniform, statewide standard’ of recounts is partly codified in NRS 293.404 (3) which states, “The recount must. . . determine whether all ballots are marked as required by law. All ballots must be recounted in the same manner in which the ballots were originally tabulated.”
At issue, the paper audit trail is not a ballot consistent with the provisions of NRS 293.404.
Fiscal Note: Contains unfunded mandate, costs to local and state government, not requested by local government.
County and townships have enumerated constitutional rights at Nevada Constitution Article 4 Section 20: The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases—that is to say:
– Regulating the election of county and township officers;
– Providing for opening and conducting elections of state, county, or township officers, and designating the places of voting;
– Regulating county and township business;
– Summoning and impaneling grand and petit juries, and providing for their compensation;
AB367 Requires translation and printing of ballots for every language with 5,000 or more residents. Creates the “Language Access Advisory Committee” under the office of the Secretary of State. Allows use of cell phones at the polls for interpretive services such as AI assist translations and sign language.
OPPOSE: State overreach, unfunded mandate, not requested of local government, the Language Access Committee is unnecessary, a move toward further dependence on technology, and mission creep to enable voting on cell phones.
AB237 Section 1 of this bill removes the requirement that a county have a population of 100,000 or more to be authorized to create the office of registrar of voters. Removal of the population requirement authorizes any county to create the office of registrar of voters.
OPPOSE: This bill takes away the ability of voters to directly vote for the person in charge of their elections, the County Clerk, and instead will put an unelected person under the bureaucracy of a county in charge of elections.
The ROV hires and manages his staff, volunteers, trainees, and such.. The ROV picks and trains the election boards that test and certify equipment, validate voters and their signatures, adjudicate ballots, duplicate ballots, count ballots, certify the vote tally. The ROV also defines precincts and polling locations. And, the ROV is responsible for keeping voter rolls clean, among other duties of election administration.
At issue: The ROV is more likely to defer to the authority of the Secretary of State and not county commissioners, who are their employers. We saw this happen in Washoe County in the 2024 general.
Without local ordinances in place, directing the ROV to do the commissioner’s bidding, the ROV becomes a barrier to transparency. Without transparency, a commissioner does not have the facts to be able to vote their conscience in the certification of the canvass of an election. NRS 293.387 cannot be adhered to: 2. (a) the board shall: Note separately any clerical errors discovered. But if they’re not told, how can they note errors?
Fiscal Note: This bill claims no fiscal impact because it does not mandate a county to take action. However, the bill allows for the creation of what is a new position for the rural counties and that will cost taxpayers.
AB534 Allows inmates in a county or city jail to access NVeases.gov, a system established for covered voters who are overseas or in the military to register to vote and cast a ballot in every election.
OPPOSE: This bill is a blatant power grab by the Secretary of State from the counties of Nevada.
Transfers the establishment of all procedures for the processing and counting of all ballots from the county clerks to the Secretary of State thereby usurps the role and authority of the counties to conduct elections as they see fit which is in direct conflict with the Nevada Constitution art. 4, § 20.
The Secretary of State mandates the use of mechanical voting devices; once again usurping the authority of the counties to hand count ballots should they deem it appropriate to do so. This also opens the door for cronyism, fraud and nepotism.
Renaming “provisional ballots” to “conditional ballots” is misleading. It will be costly to update all training manuals and publications.
Removing requirements to publish election notices in newspapers, instead allowing counties to rely solely on websites or social media thereby disenfranchising voters without internet access, particularly seniors, those who do not participate in social media, and those in rural communities.
A voter may be challenged, but the challenge may not be made on information obtained from a database, even if it is data published by the Secretary of State, county clerks, or Bureau of Vital Statistics, etc. For example, if your neighbor died, is listed in the death record database, and is still registered to vote, you cannot challenge that vote.
Fiscal Note: Contains unfunded mandate, costs to local and state government, not requested by local government.
F.A.Q.
Clean Voter Rolls
Nevada’s Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar is continuing to execute and expand his Top-Down Election strategy, having rushed in a new voter registration database called VREMS to coincide with the old ERIC system. The Secretary also runs NVease.gov, the voter registration and voting portal. The Secretary approves all forms for registration, and makes regulations regarding signature verification when verifying voters. See AB499.
OPPOSE: SB422 intends to lessen election integrity by accepting an affirmation of citizenship/residency instead of solid proof. Offering such a voter a ballot is potentially aiding and abetting voter fraud. SB422 allows for a crime to occur by giving a non-citizen/illegal voter a ballot, and then it obligates the city or county to catch the crime. There is no worse way to run an election than what SB422 intends to do.
Recent evidence has uncovered how an algorithm manipulates voter rolls. Along with falsehoods in the verification process, below, millions of ineligible voters are believed to have voted in the 2024 general election across the nation. In addition, ERIC is known to puff voter rolls, hold inactive voters for eternity, and share voter information with others; info that ends up in the hands of certain NGOs of the democrat persuasion. The new VREMS in Nevada has not replaced ERIC. Why are we still with ERIC?
SUPPORT: See The Good Package below.
SUPPORT: See The Good Package below.
DOGE has found that the Social Security database is incompatible with state voter registration databases, allowing for millions of ineligible voters to remain on the voter rolls.
OPPOSE: Section 2 of AB499 requires each county clerk to establish and maintain a voter services portal on the Internet website of the office of the county clerk. Section 2 further authorizes a county clerk to request the assistance of the Secretary of State to establish and maintain the voter services portal.
DOGE and DataRepublican have individually found NGOs involved in elections having received the bulk of their funding from the federal government, bringing into question the non-governmental status of such organizations.
OPPOSE: Session after session they have passed legislation to make Drivers Authorization Cards for Illegal Aliens the same as for Driver’s Licenses for American Citizens. This is the last step. Current law requires Drivers Authorization Cards to be renewed every 4 years. AB140 allows a DAC to be renewed every 8 years like Drivers Licenses and every 4 years for those over 65.
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Rising Taxes
AJR1 OPPOSE: Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution which requires a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation of property. It violates this important principle of equal taxation by requiring the Legislature to provide a program to assist people who are 62 years or older or disabled by paying them refunds on property taxes on their homes.
This bill eliminates the property tax cap by revaluing any property that is sold or transferred treating it as if it were brand new, eliminating the depreciation for the structures. So, if a property is bought and the structures are up to 50 years old (which is the last year they can be depreciated), they are revalued and assessed as if they were NEW the first year of the sale. Then, thereafter they are assessed as if they were new on the date the property was purchased.
SB319 OPPOSE: Creates county fire protection districts.
Section 7 of this bill requires the board of fire commissioners to prepare an annual budget. If the board of fire commissioners determines an assessment is necessary to pay the expenses of the district, section 8 of this bill requires the board of county commissioners to certify the assessment to the county assessor to be entered on the assessment roll.
This bill is similar to one that was ruled unconstitutional by the Nevada Supreme Court in Clark County v. City of Las Vegas, 574 P.2d 1013, 94 Nev. 74 (1978), “The Act creating the Metropolitan Fire Department violates the Equal Protection Clause and is unconstitutional.”
AB530 OPPOSE: Creates a county option specific to Clark County to extend added gas tax for highway and road construction beyond the Dec. 31, 2026 cutoff date.
SB451 OPPOSE: Extends a temporary property tax increase for 30-years specific to Clark County, takes voter approval away from the people and gives it to the county commissioners.
AB69 OPPOSE: Makes permanent a sales and use tax slated to expire in 2027 specific to Nye County.
AB276 SUPPORT: Ties the business gross receipts tax rate to inflation and the consumer price index; a boon for small and start-up businesses.
Michael Nakamoto, chief principal deputy fiscal analyst for the Legislature’s nonpartisan staff, noted that 8,226 taxpayers paid $341.1 million in commerce tax in fiscal year 2024.
The average three-year inflation rate preceding that tax year was 5%. If the threshold proposed in AB276 were in effect, 145 of those businesses would not have had to pay the commerce tax, while the remainder would have only had to pay on gross revenue above $4.2 million instead of $4 million.
That would have resulted in approximately $1.6 million less in revenue for the state, according to Nakamoto.
Supporters of the bill include the Nevada Trucking Association, the Nevada Franchised Auto Dealers Association, and the Vegas Chamber.
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Slush Funds
Appointed committees to dole out taxpayer dollars to any non-profit with their hand out and who gets approved.
AB254 Creates the Community Grant Program
OPPOSE: Section 2 of this bill creates the Community Project Grant Program at the state legislative level for the purpose of awarding grants to private nonprofit organizations to conduct projects that benefit communities in Nevada. Section 2 requires that an application for such a grant be submitted by a Legislator on behalf of a nonprofit organization for a project within the Legislator’s district.
Sections 2 and 3: (1) require the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau or the Director’s designee to administer the Grant Program and the Account and to prepare a biennial report regarding the Grant Program for submission to the Legislature; and
(2) authorize the Director or the Director’s designee to apply for grants and accept gifts and other sources of money for deposit in the Account
AB287 Radical changes to recounts
OPPOSE: Removes candidate and voter rights to demand recounts above a 5% variant threshold. Shifts burden of funding recounts to local or state government as the case may be. Such expenditures may be reimbursed via the Secretary of State’s office, further centralizing state control of elections.
Section 3 of this bill allows the Secretary of State to submit statements to the State Board of Examiners, which shall repay the allowable costs from the Reserve for Statutory Contingency Account to the respective counties.
AB348 Lowers fiscal stress testing of legislation, accountability in Education
OPPOSE: Section 2 of this bill eliminates the requirements in existing law for the Fiscal Analysis Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau to: (1) perform, to the extent of available resources, a budget stress test in each even-numbered year.
Section 12 of this bill abolishes the Legislative Bureau of Educational Accountability and 24 Program Evaluation within the Fiscal Analysis Division.
AB420 Voter Access Grant Program
OPPOSE: Hidden in this Education bill is a provision for funding a Voter Access Grant Program, to be paid by taxpayer dollars and administered by the Secretary of State.
Right to Life
The issues cover pregnancy and abortions, and also end-of-life decisions.
SJR7* Reproductive Rights constitutional amendment
Will open the door to unfettered abortions at any stage, even post-birth potentially.
SB217 Assisted reproduction and your embryo
When does life begin? Section 10 of this bill provides that a fertilized egg or human embryo that exists before implantation in the uterus of a human body is not a human being for any purpose under Nevada law.
AB101 State-controlled abortion clinics and morning after pills
Overrides any county, city, district, agency or other political subdivision regarding abortions and the prescribing of abortion pills.
AB176 The Right to Reproductive Health Care Act
Sec. 6. “Reproductive health care” means medical, surgical, counseling or referral services relating to the human reproductive system, including, without limitation, services relating to pregnancy, contraception, miscarriage, in vitro fertilization or any procedure or care found by a competent medical professional to be appropriate based upon the wishes of a patient and in accordance with the laws of this State.
AB235 Provides anonymity to abortion providers and their family
Applies to any health care provider who practices in reproductive health, any employee of or volunteer for a health care facility that provides services related to reproductive health, any provider of gender-affirming care and the spouse, domestic partner or minor child thereof to also make such a request.
AB346 End of Life provisions
Sections 5-33 of this bill authorize a patient, under certain circumstances, to self-administer a medication that is designed to end the life of the patient.
AB411 Provides anonymity to a prescriber of abortion drugs
This bill provides that upon request from the prescribing practitioner, the labeling for a prescription for mifepristone, misoprostol or their generic alternatives must instead include the name of the prescribing health care practice instead of the name of the prescribing practitioner.
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Net Zero Insano
Net Zero is an extension of the Climate Change hoax. It intends to phase out all man-made carbon emissions by the year 2050 by increasing reliance on electricity and battery-powered vehicles and appliances.
SB448 Clean Energy Bill (2021)
Nevada Clean Energy Fund
EXECUTIVE ORDER 2023-07
Order Establishing the State of Nevada Energy Policies Objectives
Washoe County recently adopted a Climate Action Plan aka Net Zero.
Reno recently adopted a Net Zero policy.
AB458 Authorizes the users of a solar-powered affordable housing system to participate in net metering; exempting the owner or operator of a solar-powered affordable housing system from certain
provisions of law; establishing requirements for a tariff or contract relating to a solar-powered affordable housing system; revising provisions governing the administration of net metering; revising provisions relating to an expanded solar access program which certain electric utilities are required to offer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto
SB132: Section 1. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the State General Fund to the Nevada Clean Energy Fund formed pursuant to NRS 701B.985 the sum of $5,000,000 for securing and implementing grants for qualified clean energy projects in this State, including, without limitation, costs associated with: (a) Providing bridge or gap funding for qualified clean energy projects; (b) Providing technical support to state and local agencies; and (c) Staffing and administering the Nevada Clean Energy Fund.
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Mental Health
Counseling is performed by third party organizations, creating a wedge between parents and their child.
We believe that gender ideology forced onto a young student is a form of abuse, causing stress.
We believe that gender ideology has no place in grade school.
We believe that schools are not responsible for a child’s mental health, particularly when they are often the source of stress for the student.
Mental illnesses of all kinds are on the rise, growing faster than current resources can match. We’re in a crisis, but the 83rd Legislature has not taken the issue seriously enough.
SJR10 Allows for medicinal use of Psylocybin, MDMA, and others.
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The Good Package
Following is a collection of bills in the 83rd Legislature that we support!
AB92 Reopens gov’t/public buildings to public and political orgs free of charge
Upon application by a state or county central committee, rooms or spaces in certain public buildings be made available without charge to state or county central committees of major political parties: (1) in presidential election years for any purpose; and (2) during other years for the purpose of conducting precinct meetings.
AB147 Voter ID
Requires voter ID but allows IDs from other states and District of Columbia. Section 2 sets forth the acceptable forms of proof of identity.
Sections 11, 29 and 38 of this bill make conforming changes to requirements for signature verification to reflect the contents of certain forms of proof of identity which are included in section 2.
Sections 3 and 4 of this bill: (1) require the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue an identification card, free of charge, to a registered voter who does not possess one of the acceptable forms of proof of identity and attests that he or she is experiencing financial hardship.
AB148 Timely delivery of sample ballots
Requires a county clerk or city clerk, as applicable, to distribute a sample ballot to each registered voter before the applicable deadline for the clerk to distribute a mail ballot to the registered voter.
AB372 Clean Voter Rolls
Section 1. NRS 293.485 is hereby amended to read as follows: 293.485 1. [Every] Only a citizen of the United States, 18 years of age or over, who has continuously resided in this State and in the county 30 days and in the precinct 10 days next preceding the day of the next succeeding:
(a) Primary election;
(b) Primary city election;
(c) Presidential preference primary election;
(d) General election; or
(e) General city election, and who has registered in the manner provided in this chapter, is entitled to vote at that election
AB161 Hospice Bill of Rights
Creates a Hospice Bill of Rights protecting people and families from bad actors, frauds, and predators during the last stages of life.
SB109 Stops frivolous bills
Limits the number of bills that can be sent to the Legislature, limits frivolous bills.