CARSON CITY — A third attempt to bring Hollywood studios to Southern Nevada failed to get the green light from Nevada lawmakers on Wednesday.

Assembly Bill 5 , proposing to tie $95 million of state’s transferable film tax credit program to the development of a film studio campus called Summerlin Studios, was the subject of contentious debates throughout the special legislative session — on its seventh day on Wednesday — and intense lobbying efforts throughout the fall. The bill failed 10-8 in the state Senate. It needed 11 votes to pass.

The failure rolls the credits in the latest installment of a multi-year effort to lure film and TV studios to Nevada with state incentives. A version of the idea first proposed in 2023, when Sen. Roberta Lange, D-Las Vegas, proposed a bill to build two s

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