2023 NV Legislative Scorecard
The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Nevada Legislature in 2023 and ranks state assemblymen and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.
This is our second state-level Scorecard; the selected votes may not be reflective of legislators' overall records. Their cumulative scores will change as we add more votes. Please check regularly for updates.
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AB383 establishes the “Right to Reproductive Health Care Act,” which, among other provisions, prevents a governmental entity from limiting access to “reproductive health services, drugs, or devices” and allows Medicaid to cover “voluntary sterilization” for men as well as women.
The Senate passed AB383 on June 5, 2023, by a vote of 16 to 5. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government. Nevada ought to forbid the practice of abortion, along with other grotesque methods of population control, entirely and uphold the sanctity of life for every person, especially preborn children. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
SB232 extends Medicaid coverage to include postpartum care services for up to 12 months.
The Senate passed SB232 on May 29, 2023, by a vote of 20 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because neither health care nor social welfare is the legitimate object of government. Medicaid, as with many other ‘entitlement programs,’ discriminatorily and unjustly provides “eligible” low-income persons, who have little or no tax liability, with government “benefits” (i.e., funds) at the expense of other hard-working citizens. Nevada must reject the use of taxpayer money for this ever-expanding and unsustainable Federal-State program that is not authorized under Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution.
AB65 requires each child to begin attending public school at 6 years of age, instead of 7 years of age.
The Senate passed AB65 on May 26, 2023, by a vote of 15 to 5. We have assigned pluses to the nays because education is not the role of government. A child's education is the responsibility of—and a fundamental right of choice retained by—his or her parents. Forcing the citizens of Nevada to hand over more of their hard-earned tax dollars to further support a compulsory, government-run, and failing K-12 school system violates their individual liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment.
AJR6 proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to adopt the National Popular Vote Compact.
The Senate passed AJR6 on May 18, 2023, by a vote of 12 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the National Popular Vote (NVP) movement is an attack on the Electoral College—the constitutional, federal, and republican process whereby the States choose the President and Vice President of the United States, rather than Congress or the people directly. Designed by the American Founders, the Electoral College is a key component of our “checks and balances” system that protects the various interests but co-equal sovereignty among the several States, ensuring each has fair representation and an influential role in deciding one of the most important decisions the country makes. Given that the States created a limited national government, the Electoral College functions as a decentralizing safeguard for individual rights and liberty from the “dangers of democracy” (e.g., the modern popular vote or winner-takes-all system), which threaten to result in a “tyranny of the majority” or an “elective despotism.” Nevertheless, the NVP Compact legislation to change our presidential elections should be rejected as fraudulent. Article I, Section 10, of the U.S. Constitution prohibits interstate compacts from being formed “without the consent of Congress.” In addition, Article V provides that only Congress may propose or call a convention for proposing amendments that “shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of [the] Constitution.”
AB355 makes it illegal for a person who is less than 21 years of age to possess a “semiautomatic shotgun” or “semiautomatic centerfire rifle.”
The Senate passed AB355 on May 15, 2023, by a vote of 12 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill increases Nevada’s broad and blatantly unconstitutional firearms restrictions, which erode the rights of law-abiding adult gun owners. The Second Amendment expressly declares that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” without exception on account of age. Moreover, the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, in conjunction with the 26th Amendment, prevent “any State” from depriving or denying “any person,” such as “citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older,” of their “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
SB302 prohibits state and local officials from taking certain actions against persons who provide or assist in the provision of “gender-affirming health care services.”
The Senate passed SB302 on April 24, 2023, by a vote of 13 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the nays because no person has a right to abuse a child using the pretext of LGBTQ+ ideology. Sex mutilation against minor children violates their unalienable right to life and limb, as it absurdly attempts to erase their biological characteristics with fictional “gender” constructs. According to the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the States have a duty to defend the humanity of all people—male and female—who, as the Declaration of Independence affirms, are created by God and form the basis of individual and family self-government.
