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Think tank names Democrat state’s top transparency defender in annual legislative report card

Think tank names Democrat state’s top transparency defender in annual legislative report card
The Center Square
September 30, 2019
Nevada Sen. David Parks

Nevada Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, answers media question on the Senate floor at the Legislature in Carson City, Nev. on Monday, March 7, 2011.
AP Photo/Cathleen Allison

(Derek Draplin) – Nevada’s free-market think tank on Tuesday released its annual legislative scorecard, and a Democratic lawmaker received top accolades for his work on government transparency legislation.

The Nevada Policy Research Institute, a non-profit education and research group based in Las Vegas, named Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, the top legislator in the transparency category of their “2019 Legislative Report Card.”

Sens. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, Melanie Scheible, D-Clark County, and Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, also received high marks as pro-transparency lawmakers during the 2019 legislative session.

Nevada passed Senate Bill 287, backed by Parks, which reformed the state’s open records law to subject public agencies to civil penalties for violating public records laws. The legislation was backed by the Right to Know Nevada coalition, which included NPRI and the ACLU.

“Sen. Parks … deserves special recognition for both sponsoring SB287 and for his efforts to include a penalty on any individual government employee who violates the law,” the report said.

In addition to transparency, the report also scored lawmakers based on business and taxes, collective bargaining, education and criminal justice.

Asm. Jim Wheeler, R-Minden, and Asm. John Ellison, R-Elko, were the most taxpayer-friendly lawmakers during the 2019 session and had perfect voting records on issues related to business and taxes, the report said.

Sen. James Settelmeyer, R-Minden, and Wheeler stood out for their “vocal concern over collective bargaining’s fiscal impact,.”

On education, NPRI praised Sen. Heidi Gansert, R-Reno, and Asm. Gregory Hafen, R-Pahrump, for defending school choice during the legislative session.

“The gutting of the Opportunity Scholarship Program highlights the corrosive effect government unions have on the democratic process,” said NPRI Policy Director Robert Fellner. “Despite being supported by 68 percent of Nevadans, Democrats killed the scholarship program in order to appease the politically powerful unions – long hostile to school choice programs – who help get them elected.”

Nevada also made progress reforming the state’s criminal justice system during the legislative session, for which NPRI awarded Asm. Steve Yeager, D-Las Vegas, the top spot for his efforts.

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Derek Draplin | The Center Square

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