CARSON CITY — Gov. Steve Sisolak has signed bills allowing cities and counties to regulate electric scooters, increasing penalties for domestic violence crimes, adopting a sexual assault survivor's bill of rights and 63 other measures.
The Democratic governor's office announced he signed the bills Monday night, hours before lawmakers adjourned their biennial session.
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In addition to letting local governments regulate electric scooters, the law requires operators of scooter-share programs to pay a fee and stipulates that scooter riders are subject to the same rules and rights as bicycle riders.
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The law establishing a sexual assault survivor's bill of rights also spells out rules about the collection and analysis of evidence in rape kits.
The domestic violence law increases penalties for a number of those crimes and toughens penalties for stalking and the stalking of children.
