Retail Association of Nevada

Mission Statement

Our Mission is to strengthen the business environment for Nevada Retailers and Associates by providing a government relationship program which supports retail industry needs through effective lobbying at federal, state and local levels.

Welcome to the On-line home of the Retail Association of Nevada. Here, you can interact with other members of the RAN by voting on our opinion poll, you can get up-to-date information from our Hot Topics, check the calendar for important dates, or research your Legislators on their business friendly (or unfriendly) voting records.

At RAN we make it our business to support and protect your business. From monitoring local, county, state and some federal issues RAN is there to inform you on the events that can have a real impact to your business.

The 2009 Legislative Session is now over but the target on the back of business can hardly be taken off. With over a billion dollar tax increase, all of it on business, the Nevada business community has no time to relax. The 2011 Session is already being rumored, by Legislators and Union Opponents, as the session a Gross Receipts Tax will finally be created.

Now is the time for action. The Retail Association will be involved with supporting incumbents who are friendly to business, identifying new candidates who share the views of the Retail Association and fighting any number of initiatives aimed at taxing business.

RAN continues to gear up for the issues that are likely to present themselves in the 2010 Election Cycle. Taxes, the price of gas, and the continuation of the downward economy are likely to be the hot topics when the electorate votes. If you have any issues you would like to discuss please call us.

The 2009 Legislative Matrix will be available shortly and will give you a good idea on how business friendly the legislature was and will provide a good foundation to trend with past legislative sessions.

Please check back with our website for new information which will be posted as it becomes available.

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Hot Topics

Governor vetoes more bills

6/9/2009 - Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons continued his criticism of the Democrats who controlled the 2009 legislative session, and also announced Tuesday that he has vetoed five more bills, bringing his total to a record 48.

Gibbons raises possibility of special session

6/9/2009 - Gov. Jim Gibbons said today there is a chance he will have to call a special session of the Legislature sometime over the next year and a half because he doubts the tax increases approved by lawmakers will produce the revenue they expected.

In Labor’s heart, Dems didn’t deliver

6/9/2009 - Leaders say unions took unfair hit in legislative session, vow to fight in ’11. Nevada labor leaders are disappointed that their Democratic allies in the Legislature failed to advance significant items on labor’s agenda despite controlling both chambers for the first time in two decades.

THE PARTY'S OVER

6/8/2009 - Businesses acquiesce to legislative tax plan that salvages higher education but pressures big employers during recession

UNLV professor targets 'wasteful' dipper wells

6/8/2009 - Before you even take that first sip of latte or bite of hand-scooped ice cream, you may have unwittingly participated in a form of water waste as common as your corner coffee shop. Each year, food establishments across the valley purposely pour more than 100 million gallons of drinking water down the drain in the interest of health and expedience, according to a UNLV professor and a student who want to shut the tap on the practice.

State Budget Troubles are Far From Resovlved

6/7/2009 - Last summer, when Nevada's economic troubles began to take a toll on the state budget, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, vowed she'd spend the next year working on dramatic reforms to the state's financial structure so lawmakers would "never again" be forced to decimate programs they had struggled to created.

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Today is: 7/2/2009

Thinking about the 2009 Legislative Session, who do you think was the most successful? Governor Gibbons - 78.05%

Speaker Barbara Buckley - 7.32%

Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford - 2.44%

Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio - 9.76%

Assembly Majority Leader John Oceguera - 2.44%

Votes: 41