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Nevada Policy Research Institute's Legislative Report Card (2011)

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The Nevada Policy Research Institute, a Nevada-based conservative-libertarian think tank, released a legislative report card in 2011, evaluating members of the Nevada State Legislature on how closely their votes aligned with the institute's priorities, which it described as "economic freedom and education reform."[1]

The institute characterized itself as "a free-market think tank," focusing on "education and fiscal policy, with the goal of advancing free-market principles in both."[2]

2011 report

The Nevada Policy Research Institute released its 2011 Nevada Legislative Session Review & Report Card on June 28, 2011. The report card analyzed the 63 total legislative members on 78 votes for the Nevada State Senate and 67 for the Nevada Assembly. The institute organized votes into categories, which it characterized in the following way: transparency, cost savings, excess spending, taxes, subsidies, regulation, education reform, property rights, and Dillon's rule.

Average scores were 59% in the Nevada State Senate and 56% in the Nevada State Assembly. Senate Republicans had the highest scores with an average score of 72.46%, followed by Assembly Republicans (64.43%), Senate Democrats (32.70%), and Assembly Democrats (31.58%).

In addition to the rankings, the report provided a textual review of the 76th legislative session. It focused on the events leading up to a budgetary deal reached between the Senate and Assembly, which had Democratic majorities, and the Republican Governor, Brian Sandoval. The compromise measure increased tax revenue and contained policy changes affecting education, collective bargaining, and other labor issues.[3]

Complete rankings

Methodology

The Nevada Policy Research Institute wrote that its grading system was "an adapted version of that used by the National Taxpayers Union to grade Congress." As in the NTU rankings, the institute weighted bills more heavily when it held them to be of greater significance. Each bill was assigned a value of 1 through 100. A lawmaker could earn points by voting yes or no on a bill. All scores were expressed as a percentage of the maximum possible number of points.

The institute chose bills to evaluate based on whether they were anticipated to impact Nevada tax rates or provide tax subsidies. Lawmakers could also gain points by voting for bills that the institute believed would improve education through structural reform, increase government transparency, and protect property rights. The institute considered legislators with scores above 50 to be supportive of its values.[3]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Nevada Policy Research Institute, "The 2011 Nevada Legislative Session Review & Report Card- Introduction"
  2. ↑ Nevada Policy Research Institute, "About"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nevada Policy Research Institute, "The 2011 Nevada Legislative Session Review & Report Card"
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