New year, new laws: 14 statutes take effect Jan. 1

CARSON CITY — A prohibition connected the merchantability oregon possession of untraceable weapons heads a database of laws passed past league that instrumentality effect with the caller year.

Part of the weapons law, passed arsenic Assembly Bill 286 successful the spring, was struck down earlier successful December by a Lyon County District Court judge.

As enacted, the instrumentality sought to prohibition firearms that deficiency serial numbers, including those sold successful unassembled kits oregon made with 3D printers, with exceptions for antiques oregon inoperable guns. The justice nullified the conception of the instrumentality covering weapon kits, citing vague connection that efficaciously made the instrumentality unenforceable. The authorities is expected to appeal.

Two different important caller laws woody with elections. One replaces the state’s statesmanlike caucuses with primaries and attempts to enactment Nevada astatine the caput of the superior calendar, up of Iowa and New Hampshire. Gaining first-in-the-nation presumption is taxable to dialog and treatment with nationalist parties and different states successful beforehand of the adjacent statesmanlike predetermination successful 2024.

The 2nd predetermination measure makes mail-in voting permanent, among different changes instituted amid the pandemic successful 2020 to easiness and amended ballot access.

Here are 11 different laws that spell into effect connected New Year’s Day:

Senate Bill 114 allows manufacturers and nutrient establishments to nutrient and merchantability foods and beverages that incorporate hemp products. Some sections took effect earlier.

Senate Bill 237 adds LGBTQ-owned tiny businesses to the database of those eligible for assorted forms of further assistance, incentives and extortion from discrimination.

Assembly Bill 42 provides for assemblage trials successful misdemeanor home unit cases wherever weapons possession is astatine stake. It came successful reply to a 2019 authorities Supreme Court decision.

Assembly Bill 254 allows assemblage athletes to gain wealth from endorsements.

Assembly Bill 121 allows disabled voters to ballot and registry utilizing physics systems the mode overseas and subject voters presently do.

Assembly Bill 196 requires lactation rooms successful courthouses, with immoderate exceptions.

Assembly Bill 256 provides Medicaid sum for doula services.

Assembly Bill 287 provides for the licensing of freestanding birthing centers.

Senate Bill 190 authorizes pharmacists to dispense hormonal commencement power to women without a required doctor’s visit.

Senate Bill 251 requires superior attraction providers to cheque if women should beryllium screened for the BRCA cistron mutation that causes bosom cancer.

Assembly Bill 358 changes Medicaid rules for situation inmates, suspending alternatively than terminating their eligibility portion incarcerated and reinstating it arsenic soon arsenic imaginable aft release.

Assembly Bill 118 expands the usage of kid restraints successful vehicles, removing definite age-based value requirements and adding tallness requirements, among different changes.

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