Issues
David serves in the Nevada Assembly representing District 24 (Old Northwest Reno and parts of northeast Reno and the North Valleys) in hopes of making this great place to live even better.
David speaking at a neighborhood event.
As your Assemblyman, David works to...
- Keep taxes low and to get our economy back on track
- Make safe, quality health care more affordable for all Nevadans
- Protect and expand education programs such as career and technical education that have a proven record of helping students succeed in school
- Develop renewable energy in our state to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and create jobs
- Penalize Nevada businesses that violate our immigration laws
- Always be accessible and to listen to your concerns and ideas
David fights for:
An education system ready for the jobs of tomorrow
In our globalized economy, education is the key to ensuring a bright future for Nevadans. We need to improve our education system from kindergarten through higher education.
Expanding full-day kindergarten opportunity into more schools, improving career and technical education opportunities, providing schools and teachers incentives to develop innovative classroom programs that really work in reaching more students, enhancing technology in the classroom, and doing a better job of helping college-bound students make the transition to higher education are all issues for which David works.
As a member of Council to Establish Academic Standards and the Assembly Education Committee, David works to strengthen the standards for Nevada's students and boost their achievement.
Stronger families by preparing for the challenges faced by our growing senior population
We have to recognize the impact on Nevada’s families posed by the high cost of prescription drugs and long-term care for our aging parents, as well as the difficulty in securing and maintaining affordable health insurance coverage.
To cut down on the confusion of medication management David introduced AB 235, a bill supported by AARP Nevada as a "top priority" during the 2007 session. The successful passage of AB 235 now allows a consumer to request from their doctor, at the time a prescription is written, that a “plain English” label to indicate the purpose of the drug be placed on the bottle by the pharmacist.
Improved access to quality health care
Too many hard working Nevadans, many of whom work for small businesses, are either uninsured or underinsured, placing a great strain on our health care delivery system. We must work on finding innovative ways to help all Nevadans cope with rising health care costs.
David was the primary sponsor of legislation in the 2007 session, AB 158, establishing Nevada's Living Will Lockbox registry, an option for families of patients and health care professionals for the storage and retrieval of living wills. The registry helps ensure that the wishes of patients are honored when it comes to end-of-life decisions. The registry also alleviate problems caused when living wills are lost or cannot be retrieved quickly in times of medical emergency.
Sustaining Nevada’s quality of life through solutions to the challenges of growth, water and public lands access
Nevadans love the outdoors; hunting, fishing, hiking and the other ways we recreate are important for raising families. Protecting our water, parks, wildlife and access to public lands must be priorities. Visit "Sportsmen for Bobzien" to learn more.
In the 2007 session, David was the primary sponsor of the successful AB 178, expanding clean energy incentives by lifting the size limit on projects eligible for net metering and creating an incentive program for wind power. The bill also established Nevada as the first state in the union to set a standard for common light bulb efficiency to promote energy efficiency.
David was also the successful primary sponsor of legislation to establish a conservation advocate's seat on the State Environmental Commission (AB 217), and a policy of support for conservation use of water rights (AB 296.)
Read David's post-2007 session account of David's legislative agenda.