The Legislature wrapped up a 12-day special session on Sunday, one of the longest in the state’s history. After several long nights, tense hearings and hours of behind-the-scenes budget negotiations, lawmakers cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the state budget, notably from health care and education services, in an effort to balance a $1.2 billion shortfall. You can read the full recap here .
Gov. Steve Sisolak is expected to call a second special session during which lawmakers will address a number of policy priorities, including criminal justice reform, worker protections and election changes. Until then, here are some of the photos from the final day of 2020’s first special session captured by The Nevada Independent ’s David Calvert.
Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Steve Yeager, left, and Speaker Jason Frierson look out the Assembly chambers to see if the Senate has convened on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session of the Legislature in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
Assemblywoman Maggie Carlton at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
State Senator David Parks, left, greets Assemblyman Howard Watts as the two pass each other on the way to notifying the different chambers of Sine Die at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
Members of the state Senate GOP caucus inside the Senate chambers at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
Assemblyman Glen Leavitt at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
State Senator Marcia Washington at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
State Senator Joe Hardy on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session of the Legislature in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
Assemblywoman Melissa Hardy, left, speaks with state Senator Joe Hardy after Sine Die at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
State Senator James Ohrenschall on his way to the Senate chambers at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
State Senate Sergeant at Arms cleans inside the Senate chambers at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson during a press conference with Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
A reprinted copy of A.B. 3 inside the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
Nevada Assembly members, Steve Yeager and Sandra Jauregui get ice cream during an Assembly recess at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
State Senate Minority Leader James Settelmeyer at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)
Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson during a press conference with Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro at the Legislature on the twelfth day of the 31st Special Session in Carson City on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)