Assemblymember Tanya P. Flanagan

Party: Democratic

Legislative Service

  • Nevada Assembly, 2025 (first elected November 2024)—one regular session
  • 2025 SESSION COMMITTEES: Education; Government Affairs; Revenue

Other Public Service

  • After-School All-Stars Greater Las Vegas
  • Bolden Area Command Citizen Council
  • Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, African American Advisory Council
  • Las Vegas Urban Chamber of Commerce
  • Las Vegas Urban League
  • National Association of Black Journalists
  • National Urban League
  • Susan G. Komen Nevada

Honors and Awards

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Las Vegas, President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service
  • Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Community Service Award
  • Kappa League, Breast Cancer Awareness Survivor Adversity Overcomer Award
  • Nevada Press Association, First Place, Best Spot News Story
  • Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Community Citizen of the Year
  • SBI Youth Mentor, Certificate of Recognition
  • Who’s Who in Black Las Vegas, Honoree

Other Achievements

  • KUNV Radio Talk Show Host
  • Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice, Reporter/Editor
  • Victory Missionary Baptist Church, Television host, Christian Living Principles & Society
  • Top 40 Under 40 in Business Las Vegas, Nominee

Affiliations

  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Theta Theta Omega Chapter
  • West Las Vegas Arts Center, Performing & Visual Arts Summer Camp
  • The Girl Friends, Inc., Las Vegas Chapter

Education

  • University of Arizona, Journalism and Political Science, B.A., 1993
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Executive M.B.A., 2006

Personal

Occupation: Communications and Public Relations
Recreation: My black Lab, baking, reading, live music events, and spending time with family
Born: 1970, McNary, Arizona

Primary Sponsor

AB125 Revises provisions relating to public bodies. (BDR 18-909)
AB130 Makes an appropriation to Goodwill of Southern Nevada for expanding workforce development initiatives. (BDR S-917)
AB382 Revises provisions relating to health insurance coverage for biomarker testing. (BDR 57-913)
AB405 Revises provisions relating to agriculture. (BDR S-911)
AB428 Requires certain health plans to include coverage for fertility preservation services. (BDR 57-915)
AB430 Exempts persons engaged in the provision of payroll processing services from provisions governing money transmission. (BDR 55-1072)

Co-Sponsor

SCR1 Memorializes esteemed native Nevadan and lobbyist Kathleen “Neena” Laxalt. (BDR R-1028)
ACR3 Expresses gratitude to the National Conference of State Legislatures for 50 years of service. (BDR R-986)
SCR4 Declares April 2025 as Financial Literacy Month. (BDR R-1163)
AJR7 Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to revise provisions relating to the compensation of certain elected officers. (BDR C-654)
AJR14 Condemns the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and denounces the use of presidential pardons and commutations to absolve the rioters. (BDR R-991)
AB81 Exempts the State of Nevada from provisions of federal law relating to daylight saving time. (BDR 19-23)
AB82 Requires the Governor to proclaim certain days of observance. (BDR 19-60)
AB83 Designates “Larry Itliong Day” as a day of observance in this State. (BDR 19-99)
SB96 Designates January 27 as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day” in the State of Nevada. (BDR 19-604)
AB191 Revises provisions relating to collective bargaining. (BDR 23-889)
AB224 Provides for the issuance of bonds to assist certain school districts in financing capital improvements. (BDR S-688)
AB250 Revises provisions relating to certain debt. (BDR 52-599)
AB256 Directs the Legislative Commission to appoint a Regional Rail Transit Advisory Working Group to conduct an interim study relating to regional rail transit. (BDR S-614)
SB262 Revises provisions relating to graduate medical education. (BDR 18-120)
AB263 Revises provisions relating to homelessness. (BDR 20-96)
AB285 Establishes the Nevada State Service Corps within the Department of Administration. (BDR 23-98)
AB388 Revises provisions relating to employment. (BDR 23-1027)
AB417 Revises provisions relating to public safety. (BDR 43-647)