Public Service

This is Art Rader and Assemblyman Bob Thomas sponsoring a Nevada bill to repeal the 55 mph speed limit.

This bill passed the legislature, backed by Attorney General Brian McKay and supported by Governor Dick Bryan.

Outcome

The law went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court for final judicial review. Art was one of the very few freshman Nevada lawmakers who sponsored a bill of national importance.

Other state legislatures followed Art's and Nevada's lead by passing laws that convinced Congress to repeal the Federal speed limit and return control of highway speeds to the states.

Boards,  Commissions and More

Art has been appointed to numerous commissions and boards by governors, county commissioners and UNLV administrators: 

• Served on the Nevada State Rail Plan Commission.
• Consultant for Nevada State Parks Division.
• Section Editor for the Nevada US Bicentennial Commission Bicentennial HistoryBook.
• Member of the Paradise Township Town  Board and the Clark County Mobile Home Mediation Board. 
• Chair (by appointment) of the Technical Oversight Design Committee for the construction of UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center.
• Consultant to UNLV's basketball program: invented the basketball pre-game light show at the old Convention Center rotunda and designed almost all of the special effects used in the present Thomas & Mack pre-game shows.