LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Months before a cyberattack crippled state computers, Nevada lawmakers heard but did not pass a bill to centralize the state's cybersecurity operations to meet emerging threats.

It's not clear whether the bill — Assembly Bill 432 , by Henderson Republican Toby Yurek — would have changed anything about the cyberattack first detected by state officials on Aug. 24.

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But the bill, the dialogue surrounding it, has taken on new relevance in the wake of the assault on Nevada's computer systems that's now in its ninth day.

The bill would have created a centralized security operations center (abbreviated "SOC" and pronounced "sock") under the stat

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