LAS VEGAS — Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo would not sign legislation that would allow noncitizens who are legal residents to become police officers, he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday.
The proposed Assembly Bill 30, which the Legislature will take up when the session starts in February, would allow people legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law to apply to become peace officers, rather than only citizens of the U.S. The bill was requested by the city of North Las Vegas.
“I haven’t seen the language of that, but from what I know at face value, I could not support that,” Lombardo said.
