After all, Nevada does not have the happy figures.
An attempt to establish a Nevada lottery died in the state legislature when the body with 63 members did not raise the resolution before its first major deadline.
The congregation’s joint resolution 5 proposed a constitutional amendment to remove the state’s ban on state lotteries – a provision that has been in the state’s basic document since its ratification in 1864. It went out of both the congregation and the state’s Senate in the legislative session in 2023, but required another session before it went to voters.
The legislation gained that session. Culinary Local 226, the largest hospitality association in the state, supported the effort and demanded that the lottery’s revenue be used on young people’s mental health resources for Nevadans.
This is not the first time an attempt at a state lottery has come up in Carson City, but it was one of the most promising. A survey in April 2023 from Nevada Independent and Noble Predictive Insights found about 71 percent of respondents said they would support the creation of a state lottery.
But that was not enough to drive the effort forward in 2025. AJR 5 did not receive a hearing before Friday’s deadline for most laws to leave their origin committee and effectively killed the proposal.
In a statement, speaker Steve Yeager, D-las Vegas, said that the effort passed the last session and gave legislators more time to “consider whether Nevada’s participation in multistate games (such as Powerball and Megamillions) makes sense.” But the Legislative Democrats were not willing to handle start -up costs.
“But after very thought -provoking consideration, and with so much financial uncertainty and shocking federal financing cuts, this measure will not go forward,” Yeager said in the statement. “Participation in these Multistate games comes with implementation costs and will not generate much revenue for the state. In addition, the lottery will meet lower income individuals. As we did last season, the legislature will make conservation education and mental health financing for a priority.”
Ted Daddyorge, secretary treasurer of culinary, called the congregation’s democrats decision not to hear the resolution “irresponsible” in a statement on Monday.
When politicians talk about democracy being at risk, but blocks Nevadans from voting on something as simple as a state lottery, their words call hollow. Measures speak louder than rhetoric, “he said.” With federal cuts such as truar, uncertainty about the state budget and the lack of funding for education and mental health, Nevadan needs real solutions and we need it now. Politicians cannot complain about budget deficiencies while refusing to even consider a bill that would receive new revenue. “
Nevada is one of five states without a state lottery. In 2023, California’s lottery officials said that the state’s two largest ticket dealers with annual revenue were the Lotto store in Primm Valley and Gold Ranch in Verdi, California. Both are across the Nevada State Line.
Ajr 5’s death is a win for Nevada’s gaming industry. In a statement on Monday, the Nevada Resort Association said that a state lottery does not generate significant employment or capital investments.
“On the other hand, Nevada’s gaming and tourism industry supports more than 436,000 jobs and generates an annual economic effect of almost $ 100 billion for communities in the entire state at the same time as the state’s largest taxpayer,” the group said in the statement. “We applaud their decision not to go through to change Nevada’s constitution and overturn long -term state policy.”
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