Has Nevada ever held a less “special” special legislative session?

More than five months after concluding the Legislature’s 83rd gathering, lawmakers reconvened in Carson City on Thursday for the 36th special session. The state constitution limits the Legislature to a single 120-day session every other year but allows the governor to, “on extraordinary occasions, convene the Legislature by proclamation” and to “state to both houses, when organized, the business for which they have been specially convened.”

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s proclamation includes 16 bills, many of which were bottled up as lawmakers rushed to adjourn before their deadline in June. They include a crime bill favored by the governor, legislation to greatly expand handouts to Hollywood film and TV producers and a

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