Assemblywoman Maggie Carlton

Party: Democratic

Legislative Service

  • Nevada Assembly 2011-2021; Nevada Senate, 1999-2009 (first elected November 1998-Nevada Senate, and November 2010-Nevada Assembly)—twelve regular and sixteen special sessions
  • 2021 SESSION COMMITTEES: Ways and Means (Chair); Commerce and Labor (Vice Chair); Natural Resources
  • 2019 SESSION COMMITTEES: Assembly Committees on: Ways and Means (Chair); Commerce and Labor; Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining
  • 2017 SESSION COMMITTEES: Assembly Committees on: Ways and Means (Chair); Commerce and Labor (Vice Chair); Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining
  • 2015 SESSION COMMITTEES: Assembly Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining; Ways and Means
  • 2013 SESSION COMMITTEES: Assembly Committees on: Ways and Means (Chair); Commerce and Labor; Transportation
  • 2011 SESSION COMMITTEES: Assembly Committees on: Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining (Chair); Commerce and Labor; Ways and Means
  • 2009 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor (Chair); Energy, Infrastructure, and Transportation (Vice Chair); Taxation
  • 2007 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Natural Resources; Transportation and Homeland Security
  • 2005 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Natural Resources; Transportation and Homeland Security
  • 2003 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Natural Resources; Transportation
  • 2001 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Legislative Affairs and Operations; Natural Resources
  • 1999 SESSION COMMITTEES: Senate Committees on: Commerce and Labor; Legislative Affairs and Operations; Natural Resources
  • 2019-2020 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Interim Finance Committee (Chair); Interim Retirement and Benefits Committee (Vice Chair); Advisory Committee for a Veterans' Cemetery in Southern Nevada; Legislative Commission; Legislative Commission's Audit Subcommittee; Legislative Committee on Education
  • 2017-2018 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Interim Finance Committee (Vice Chair); Legislative Commission; Legislative Commission's Audit Subcommittee; Interim Retirement and Benefits Committee; Legislative Committee on Energy; Committee to Conduct Interim Study on Salaries of Positions in Unclassified and Nonclassified Service
  • 2015-2016 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Interim Finance Committee
  • 2013-2014 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Committee on High-Level Radioactive Waste (Chair); Interim Retirement and Benefits Committee (Chair); Legislative Commission's Audit Subcommittee (Chair); Interim Finance Committee (Vice Chair); Interim Finance Committee's Subcommittee to Review and Advise on the Development of Priorities and Performance Based Budgeting by the Department of Administration, Budget Division (Vice Chair); Legislative Committee on Public Lands
  • 2011-2012 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Interim Finance Committee; Interim Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Early Intervention Services; Legislative Commission’s Audit Subcommittee; Legislative Committee on Health Care; Legislative Committee on Public Lands (Chair); Sunset Subcommittee of the Legislative Commission
  • 2009-2010 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Nevada Legislature’s Commission on Special License Plates (Chair); Legislative Commission; Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Review Regulations; Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Review the United States Department of Labor’s Report on the Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Program (Chair)
  • 2007-2008 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Nevada Legislature’s Commission on Special License Plates (Chair); Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Review Regulations; Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Marlette Lake Water System; Nevada Legislature’s Subcommittee of the Legislative Committee on Health Care to Review the Laws and Regulations Governing Providers of Health Care, the Use of Lasers and Intense Pulsed Light Therapy, and the Use of Injections of Cosmetic Substances (Chair)
  • 2005-2006 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Marlette Lake Water System
  • 2003-2004 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Legislative Commission; Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Marlette Lake Water System (Vice Chair)
  • 2001-2002 INTERIM COMMITTEE: Legislative Commission’s Committee to Continue the Review of Programs and Activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin
  • 1999-2000 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Legislative Committee on Workers’ Compensation; Subcommittee to Study Domestic and Municipal Water Wells; Legislative Commission’s Subcommittee to Study the Integration of State and Local Child Welfare Systems in Nevada

Other Public Service

  • Advisory Board on Maternal and Child Health, 2001-2010
  • Governor’s Workforce Investment Board, 2007-2008, 2009-2010
  • Perinatal Substance Abuse Prevention Subcommittee of the Maternal and Child Health Advisory Board, 2003-present
  • Nevada State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision, 2001-2002
  • Governor’s Fundamental Review Committee

Honors and Awards

  • WiLL Pacesetter Award, 2005
  • Nevada State Psychological Association, Legislator of the Year, 2003
  • Nevada Women’s Lobby, Outstanding First Term Legislator

Affiliations

  • The Women Legislators’ Lobby (WiLL), State Director, 2006
  • National Labor Caucus of State Legislators, Executive Committee
  • Girl Scouts
  • Las Vegas Interfaith Council
  • Culinary Local No. 226, Shop Steward
  • Southern Nevada Water Authority Citizens Advisory Committee on Water Quality
  • Girl Scouts Girls Golf Club
  • Griffith United Methodist Church

Personal

Occupation: Executive Director, United Labor Agency of Nevada
Recreation: Gardening
Born: 1957, St. Louis, Missouri
Spouse: Merritt Carlton
Children: M. Grace Gelzer, Lucy Carlton

Primary Sponsor

SB134 Makes various changes relating to advanced practice registered nurses. (BDR 43-63)
AB136 Makes various changes relating to public construction. (BDR 28-145)
AB147 Authorizes a physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse to perform certain services. (BDR 40-85)
SB165 Makes various changes to provisions governing prescribing, dispensing and administering controlled substances designed to end the life of a patient. (BDR 40-292)
AB170 Revises provisions relating to health insurance coverage. (BDR 57-278)
SB193 Makes an appropriation for educational programs relating to history, law and civics. (BDR S-368)
AB252 Revises provisions relating to providers of community-based living arrangement services. (BDR 39-656)
AB317 Revises provisions governing the licensing and operation of certain medical facilities. (BDR 40-1034)
AB337 Revises provisions governing railroads. (BDR 58-957)
AB344 Makes various changes to modernize the provision of cellular coverage. (BDR 58-838)
AB361 Revises provisions relating to the practice of medicine. (BDR 54-839)
AB374* Requires the Department of Health and Human Services, if authorized by federal law, to establish a health care plan within Medicaid for purchase by persons who are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid. (BDR 38-881)
AB382* Establishes provisions governing payment for the provision of emergency services and care to patients. (BDR 40-570)
AB499 Provides for a special license plate of limited duration commemorating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage. (BDR 43-1265)

Co-Sponsor

AJR1 Expresses objection to the transfer of radioactive plutonium to this State. (BDR R-977)
ACR3 Memorializes former Assemblyman Bob Price. (BDR R-971)
AJR4 Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to pass acts to combat illegal harvesting and trafficking of human organs. (BDR R-92)
SCR7 Celebrates the sister state relationship between the State of Nevada and Taiwan. (BDR R-1266)
SCR8 Memorializes former Nevada Attorney General and Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Springer. (BDR R-1259)
ACR9 Celebrates the Life of Assemblyman Odis “Tyrone” Thompson. (BDR R-1291)
AB169 Establishes the Maternal Mortality Review Committee. (BDR 40-712)
AB174 Establishes the Nevada Interagency Advisory Council on Homelessness to Housing. (BDR 18-94)
AB178 Provides for transferable tax credits for the rehabilitation of historic buildings. (BDR 32-297)
AB181 Revises provisions governing employment attendance practices. (BDR 53-833)
AB182 Designates neon as the official state element of the State of Nevada. (BDR 19-670)
AB183 Prohibits certain correctional services from being provided by private entities. (BDR 16-290)
AB190 Revises provisions relating to certain construction. (BDR 28-637)
AB201 Revises provisions governing certain traffic laws. (BDR 43-604)
AB229 Requires the establishment of a technical advisory program for the protection and preservation of certain buildings and structures. (BDR 33-299)
AB232 Makes various changes to provisions governing hospitals. (BDR 40-158)
SB284 Creates the Advisory Task Force on HIV Exposure Modernization. (BDR S-742)
SB286 Revises provisions relating to aggregated sentences and eligibility for parole. (BDR 14-293)
AB295 Revising provisions governing sexuality education in public schools. (BDR 34-811)
AB304 Revises requirements relating to class sizes in public schools. (BDR 34-930)
AB363 Revises certain provisions relating to homeless youth. (BDR 43-1033)
AB408* Revises provisions relating to Medicaid and health insurance. (BDR 38-957)