- Gaming 2, Culinary 0 — Lottery, room cleaning die
- The Culinary Union is zero for two on priority legislation with the union-backed lottery measure, AJR5, and room cleaning legislation, SB360, failing to move forward after receiving heavy pushback from the gaming industry.
- AJR5 sought to remove a 159-year-old constitutional prohibition on Nevada operating a lottery.
- Context: Nevada is one of five states without a lottery.
- The measure easily passed in both legislative chambers in 2023, but it required a second approval before it could be sent to Nevada voters in 2026. The bill was backed by Culinary Workers Union Local 226 but opposed by the Nevada Resort Association.
- “With so much economic uncertainty and shocking federal funding cuts, this measure will not move forward,” Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) said in a statement about the bill's untimely death.
- SB360 would have mandated daily room cleaning in hotels and casinos with the goal of addressing the illicit cannabis market. Proposed by Sen. Lori Rogich (R-Las Vegas), the bill did not receive a hearing in time to pass out of committee.
- Gov. Joe Lombardo had signaled he would veto the bill in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter.
- He wrote the proposal was “no different than the law that was repealed in the last session on a bipartisan basis.”
- AJR5 sought to remove a 159-year-old constitutional prohibition on Nevada operating a lottery.
- The Culinary Union is zero for two on priority legislation with the union-backed lottery measure, AJR5, and room cleaning legislation, SB360, failing to move forward after receiving heavy pushback from the gaming industry.
