New Report Won’t Get Much Support

A new report has come out that says that many of Nevada’s gaming regulations should be eliminated because they are holding the state back from new technology and “outside investment” in the industry. However, it doesn’t look like anyone wants the governor to actually listen to the report, not even those who wrote it.

Governor Jim Gibbons would need to completely change how the state regulates the slot machines and casinos, as well as how the convention authority operates - and people say that it is much too radical to be considered at this time. Gibbons said that he agreed with some of their suggestions, but that many of them would need “further vetting” before he acted on them.

Another suggestion of the report was that the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority was not needed and that the room taxes that fund them should either be put to better use or eliminated all together. But the people who wrote the report, many of the 22 members, started distancing themselves from the report saying that they might want to re-evaluate that part of it.

Most of the people at the meeting to discuss the report agreed that the writers may have misjudged the importance of the LVCVA, and they wanted to ensure that nothing would be done without further research. The report was written by the Las Vegas Sands Corp. president, and was posted on Governor Gibbons’ web site last week.




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