“Introduce legislation to roll back parts of 2019 criminal-justice reform (AB 236), including strengthening habitual-offender enhancements, lowering the felony theft threshold, and making fentanyl possession in any amount a category B felony.”
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Both cited sources were fetched and verify the rating. The promise (2023-01-24 State of the State) was to INTRODUCE legislation rolling back parts of AB 236 with three named components. Source 1 (Nevada Independent promise tracker) confirms verbatim that "Lombardo introduced a wide-ranging criminal justice bill (SB412) meant to accomplish this pledge" and that a separate bill "fell short of his proposal in SB412 to increase felony penalties for possession of fentanyl in any amount." Source 2 confirms SB412 is "Lombardo's omnibus crime bill" and that the amended version "removes the vast majority of the original bill's proposals to roll back recent Democrat-backed criminal justice reforms — including lowering the monetary threshold for what qualifies as felony theft and imposing stricter penalties for fentanyl possession." Both quotes appear in the articles; the second citation's ellipsis/bracket stitching ("[an amended version that]") is a transparent editorial paraphrase of the article's real text ("via a version amended through negotiations"), not a fabrication — the load-bearing verbatim phrase is confirmed. LEADERSHIP is established: SB412 is repeatedly identified as Lombardo's own governor's-request signature bill that he authored and introduced to accomplish this exact pledge, not a mere vote or endorsement — satisfying the CHAMPIONED bar. The substantive rollback failing to become law (tracker labels the pledge "Compromised") concerns ENACTMENT, not the promised deliverable of introducing the legislation, which he did and drove. Confidence 0.85 reflects that an enactment-focused reading of the promise could support a lower rating, but the literal promise to introduce was met with genuine leadership.
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