In the latest Behind the Bar, evolving film tax bill may support more than just film and data on legislator success on deadline day.

Welcome to a special edition of Behind the Bar, where our reporters bring you a roundup of some interesting nuggets that caught our eye during Friday's deadline.

Legislators raised more than $17.3 million from high-dollar donors in the 2024 election cycle, with Democrats making up more than two-thirds of the haul.

In the late addition of Behind the Bar, more information on proposed Medicaid cuts, legislators want age verification for adult websites and a lawmaker withdraws a controversial school board bill. Lawmaker withdraws controversial school board bill

We break down the status of supermajorities in each chamber and the results of consequential legislative races.

Across the 10 contests most likely to determine whether Democrats secure a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers, the Democratic candidate in six of those races outraised their Republican opponent from July through September.

The Indy reached out to the candidates for Assembly District 21 to learn about their policies. Republican April Arndt agreed to an interview, while Assemblywoman Elaine Marzola did not after multiple requests, citing a lack of availability.

Across 10 contested legislative races throughout the second quarter, Democratic and Republican candidates each led the fundraising race in five of them.

We break down who will be running in the November general election.

Culinary loses a gutsy gamble to oust a well-liked incumbent who failed to back daily hotel room cleaning mandates in state law.

The races include a Culinary-backed food server, Reno woman in the energy industry and chiropractor facing establishment-backed candidates.

The fundraising lead is split in the 10 competitive races where both parties’ establishments have endorsed candidates.

The establishment-backed candidate in all but one of the important primaries identified by The Nevada Independent had a fundraising lead in the first quarter.

Plus: The growth of nonpartisan voters and a new poll

This year, party leaders in particular had the most success in getting their bills passed. Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) recorded a Legislature-topping 85 percent success rate, with 11 of 13 bills signed into law. 

Unlike previous elections in which NV Energy was the dominant political fundraising force among energy companies in the state, the 2022 cycle saw Southwest Gas emerge as the industry’s top legislative contributor, giving more than $196,000 to NV Energy’s nearly $185,000.

Out of more than $856,000 in campaign contributions to state lawmakers last cycle from lawyers, law groups and legal political action committees, no single donor spent more on legislative campaigns than Citizens for Justice — the political arm of the Nevada Justice Association, an organization for Nevada trial lawyers. 

Major political donors in the health care and pharmaceutical industries pumped more than $1.3 million into legislative campaigns in the 2022 election cycle, ahead of a 2023 legislative session likely to be rife with fierce debate over health care issues. 

Check the Legislature’s YouTube page, and you’ll find a cornucopia of videos showing the hundreds of committee meetings and floor sessions that occur everyday. All except one.

Direct contributions from outside PACs and political groups also broadly boosted Democratic candidates more than Republicans. At the top of the list, for instance, is the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the national party’s state legislative campaign arm.