Discussions became heated between Sen. Dina Neal and Assemblywoman Clara Thomas during a Friday morning hearing in the Assembly Government Affairs Committee over certain sections of a bill affecting the city they both represent.

A bipartisan panel of lawmakers rejected a draft regulation to protect workers from heat illness after the state and business groups committed to working on a revised version.

With fewer than four days until the Legislature’s 120-day session ends June 5, lawmakers are finalizing bills, amendments and making last-minute deals in an attempt to get their legislation and the state budget across the finish line.

The deal is a product of a more than two-decade-long fight between the politically powerful trial lawyers and Nevada doctors — and is a significant step down from other proposed caps of $2 million, $2.5 million and even no cap at all that were previously discussed this session.

SB307 outlines new regulations for the use of solitary confinement that are more stringent and individualized than a similar 2017 bill and mandates annual NDOC reports.

Despite Lombardo’s threats to veto the state budget if his legislative priorities were not addressed, he signed three of the five major bills used to fund the state government through Thursday afternoon.

The bill (AB522) includes the first major pay boosts for state workers in years, including raises ranging from 10 percent to 13 percent in the upcoming fiscal year beginning in June, and 4 percent raises the following year.

On Wednesday, lawmakers heard and voted to advance a bill that would appropriate $64.5 million to replace the Owyhee Combined School on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in northeastern Nevada.

After spending the morning in the building meeting with lawmakers, Wahlberg — a recent Las Vegas transplant who has been filming in Southern Nevada — spoke to reporters highlighting his support for expanding the tax credit program.

With just days left in the legislative session, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo joined Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar in a bill signing détente.