Nevada Democrats try to revive lottery plan
Nevada Democrats are trying to breathe life into their state lottery proposal, an idea Senate Republicans say is dead for the 2005 session.Although the resolution was voted down by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, says he's negotiating with Senate Republicans leaders with the hopes of reviving it.The resolution would let the state create a lottery to pay for school supplies and class-size reduction. Democrats say it could bring in as much as 50 million dollars an ...
May 17, 2005, 12:48 pm - - Lottery News forum
Nevada Lottery Proposal Killed
Nevada may be a gambling state but a Senate panel decided on a 5-2 vote Thursday that a lottery is one game of chance the state can do without.Sens. Steven Horsford, D-North Las Vegas, and Valerie Wiener, D-Las Vegas, cast the only yes votes as the proposed constitutional amendment for a lottery to fund education was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee.AJR2 would have had to pass this session and again in 2007 before going to a vote of the public in 2008. I've only been here seven weeks ...
Mar 25, 2005, 11:06 am - - Lottery News forum
Nevada lottery effort unlikely to succeed
An Assembly-backed resolution to let Nevada voters legalize a state lottery could be killed as early as today in the Senate Judiciary Committee.Judiciary Chairman Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said Wednesday he expects a 4-3 vote either for or against the lottery legalization resolution, Assembly Joint Resolution 2.The Assembly approved the resolution March 7 by a 33-9 vote. But proposals to amend the state constitution and legalize lotteries have failed 23 times since 1975.A poll taken by the Rev ...
Mar 24, 2005, 9:48 am - - Lottery News forum
Nevada Assembly passes lottery measure
Passage of Nevada lottery bill is only the first step in a four-year processA resolution to legalize a Nevada state lottery was approved 33-9 Monday in the Assembly after supporters emphasized profits would buy textbooks for schoolchildren. Nevadans already buy lottery tickets, said Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson. They buy them in California. California kids have schoolbooks. Nevada kids don't. In an earlier hearing, Perkins cited a poll showing that 73 percent of Nevadans suppo ...
Mar 8, 2005, 10:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery proposal faces long odds in Nevada
Motivated by a struggling education system, Nevada lawmakers are trying for the 23rd time since 1975 to establish a statewide lottery by amending the Nevada Constitution. They say a history of failures and past opposition by the states dominant casino industry wont keep them from trying again.Advocates say a lotterys potential profits, after prizes and operating expenses are deducted, could generate from $30 million to $70 million each year for education money they say is sorely needed.Nevada ra ...
Feb 28, 2005, 1:02 pm - - Lottery News forum
Nevada lawmakers propose lottery to fund education
Top Nevada Democratic lawmakers said Friday they're betting the time is right for the nation's No. 1 gambling state to create a lottery to solve what they called a crisis in education funding. Our classrooms are too large and not enough students have textbooks, said Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson. He and two other elected Democrats called for a dedicated and directed funding stream for schools, which tend to perform below the national average in many surveys. Nevada ranks 48t ...
Jan 22, 2005, 12:30 am - - Lottery News forum
Poll: Lottery finds favor for raising revenue in Nevada
Most Nevadans favor a state lottery as an alternative means of funding education and are happy that state lawmakers didnt impose any more taxes than it did, according to a new statewide poll.Ninety percent of Democrats, 66 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of Independents favored or strongly favored a state lottery, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal/News 4 poll.Women were more likely than men, 80 percent to 76 percent, to favor a lottery.People living in Clark County were slightly more a ...
Aug 4, 2003, 7:53 am - - Lottery News forum
