Day six of the Nevada Legislature’s special session on the Oakland A’s deal started and ended with little activity, as lawmakers ended Monday evening without voting — or even substantively meeting — to discuss a bill granting up to $380 million in public money to fund development of a Major League Baseball stadium in Las Vegas.

After late spring showers poured across the capital over the weekend, the Legislature stood quiet Monday amid ongoing backroom discussions over the proposed stadium deal. Both the Assembly and Senate convened briefly on Monday and adjourned without taking any action, as few lawmakers moved around the building, and only a handful of lobbyists wandered the muted halls following the end of the regular session last week.

Even as the stadium bill remained stuck in the Senate, lawmakers in the Assembly scheduled a Tuesday morning meeting for an “informational presentation on economic development and stadium infrastructure projects” — essentially an informal hearing of the stadium bill SB1. However, the Assembly will still need to move the bill through a normal committee hearing, if it passes out of the Senate.

Another slow day came as senators balked last week at the bill as written, criticizing the lack of changes made to the proposed community benefits agreement (a contract that would require the A’s to make certain contributions to the community) since the bill was first heard in the regular legislative session two weeks ago. After adjourning Thursday for a three-day weekend, lawmakers continued negotiations into the weekend and Monday, without any public discussions of the bill or proposed amendments.

Details on those potential amendments remain under wraps as lobbyists for the A’s have sought to appease skeptical lawmakers over concerns that the proposed community benefits agreement does not come with more stringent requirements for the team’s community investment. Without specifics added into the bill, the agreement would be decided upon by the team and the Las Vegas Stadium Authority.

In a brief conversation after the floor adjourned and Senate Democrats wrapped up a caucus meeting, Sen. Dallas Harris (D-Las Vegas) told The Nevada Independent Monday night that the bill as amended is coming and lawmakers will vet the legislation. Several lawmakers declined to give specific details when asked what the amendments may entail and what to expect for the upcoming day.

The continued negotiations come a week after lawmakers finished the 120-day regular session, which ended in the last-minute collapse of a bipartisan budget deal, necessitating an emergency special session to pass the last of the state’s five budget bills. 

In a series of messages posted on Twitter Saturday, Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) wrote that he and other members of legislative leadership pushed Gov. Joe Lombardo to delay calling a special session for a stadium deal until later in the summer, which Yeager said “would give legislators and staff time to recover from the end of session” and lobbyists time to “refine” the bill.

“Disregarding our advice to wait on calling a special session, the governor called it anyway,” Yeager wrote. “Normally special sessions for policy issues are coordinated in terms of scheduling [and] there is a general consensus that folks are likely to be supportive of the contemplated legislation. Neither happened here.”

A spokesperson for Gov. Joe Lombardo declined to comment on the contents of the thread.

Meanwhile, Oakland A’s fans planned to conduct a reverse boycott Tuesday night, packing the Oakland Coliseum to show the team — with the lowest attendance in the major leagues — that fans are not the problem. As part of the boycott, fans plan to hand out an estimated 7,000 shirts with the word “SELL” emblazoned across the front. The effort is aimed at pushing fan-despised team owner John Fisher to get rid of his shares of the A’s.

“People are fired up. It feels like it’s their last chance to actually do something as opposed to say something on Twitter,” Anson Casanares, organizer of the fan group Oakland 68s,  told The Mercury News about the T-shirts and reverse boycott.

In another Twitter thread Sunday, Yeager indicated he’s heard opposition from California residents about the deal, but said he and other lawmakers were more concerned about how the deal affects Nevadans.

“It should not surprise anybody that I care more about what Nevadans think about this issue than those from out of state,” Yeager tweeted. “I hear the out of state voices too, but they cannot and should not drown out what I am hearing from within the state.”

Updated at 10:40 p.m. on 6/12/23 to add comment from Sen. Dallas Harris.