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Gaming wants to end daily hotel room cleaning law, denies it’s about cutting costs

Proponents of SB441 support removing the last of the pandemic-imposed requirements, including the daily cleaning of hotel rooms. The Culinary Union opposes that part of the legislation.

Despite opposition, lawmakers revive and advance MGM-backed bill banning guns in casinos

During a joint meeting of Assembly and Senate judiciary committees on Saturday, lawmakers spent a rainy Carson City morning digging into the details of SB452 — an emergency bill sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro (D-Las Vegas) and introduced last week that revives jettisoned portions of the other major gun bill of the session. Senators opted to vote the bill out of committee after the hearing on a 4-3, party-line vote.

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