Though Dorset's little brown bats are holding on, other once common species found with them, like northern long eared or tricolor bats, are almost impossible to detect there now, Bennett said. Report for America is a nonprofit program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.Scientists have known for years that some little brown bats seemed to survive being exposed to the fungus, despite an overall mortality rate that was feared could eradicate them. Stern is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. The governor’s economic development office tax incentives to Redwood Materials in December, a massive lithium battery recycling plant in northern Nevada. In northern Nevada, major tax incentives have focused on the U.S. The Las Vegas area was hit particularly hard during the pandemic and is particularly reliant on gaming and tourism. Tax incentives for some of the nation’s largest companies have become a major driver of recent efforts to diversify Nevada’s economy. Sony is planned for the Summerlin site, run by the Howard Hughes Corporation. “The risk is really on the developers, not on the state of Nevada,” said Republican Senate Minority Leader Heidi Seevers Gansert, of Reno, who co-sponsored the bill.īrandon Birtcher, co-owner of Birtcher Development, which is developing the UNLV site, said it’s still being determined which film or content creator would use his site. The developers of the UNLV and Summerlin sites would foot the bill for development of the production studios, projected at $500 million and $400 million respectively by 2030. Part of those tax credits would fund local workforce training and educational programs for jobs that the studios create. The tax credits could be 30% of production and construction cost for films - up from the current 15% threshold. Under the bill, production companies would apply for the transferable tax credits, which are used to offset the modified business tax, insurance premium tax or gaming license fee. ![]() In a statement, a Sony spokesperson said the company is supportive of the film industry’s expansion into southern Nevada and would commit up to $1 billion on production over the next decade “pending the passage of legislation guaranteeing a competitive Nevada production incentive.” It also comes as a funding bill to bring the reportedly lowered that number.Ī spokesperson for Lombardo, who promised no new taxes on the campaign trail, declined to comment on the film production tax credits bill. Joe Lombardo has sparred with the Democratic-controlled Legislature on its historic $11.6 billion budget. “I think it helps build and diversify our economy, which is something we’ve talked about in Nevada for as long as I’ve lived here.”Įven with a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, the bill faces a tight deadline and further complicates the final month of Nevada’s legislative session, where Republican Gov. Roberta Lange of Las Vegas, said in an interview Thursday. “It creates a whole new industry in Nevada,” the bill’s sponsor, Democratic state Sen. The legislation would involve the state entering an agreement with private developers who would pay for two film production sites - one on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and another in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas.
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