CARSON CITY — Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery were handed a significant — but close — win on Friday night when the Nevada Assembly voted 22-20 to advance a bill expanding the state’s film tax credit program.

Assembly Bill 238 , proposing to massively expand the state’s film tax credit program to help fund the launch of a film studio called Summerlin Studios, now must be considered by the Nevada Senate. But the Senate has little time left to debate the proposal with only three days until the 120-day legislative session ends.

The proposed 31-acre film studio would be developed by Howard Hughes Corp. Backers say the studio and neighboring campus project could bring a $3 billion economic impact when development is complete. The bill proposes $95 million in annual film

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