After several days of the Nevada Special Session’s journey towards the final vote on the AB238, now AB5, Film Tax Credit Bill, the votes came in on the final night of the Session and AB5 failed to pass.
Leading up to this final vote, we campaigned for our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill draft of AB5 and regularly sent updated drafts to Nevada Assemblymembers and Senators to show them that we had a bill that fixed all of the problems they had been seeing and hearing about with AB5. We even provided key points for amendment requests to fix AB5 but none were called on the Senate Floor.
However, our messages and concerns about AB5 turned out to be shared amongst members of the public and even in the Nevada Legislature with some word behind the scenes that officials had requested similar changes for AB5. Despite this, requests for revisions, amendments, and even swapping over to our Universal Bill were ignored as the AB5 Team pushed forward with the Summerlin Studios-focused draft of AB5 to set up an awful 15-year long monopoly for Nevada’s future Film and Media industry and business.
In this way, it was a saving grace that AB5 did not pass. With another delay in Nevada’s Film and Media development and the potential of our Universal Bill not being utilized, it looked like a disappointing end to the Special Session until we began to receive some excellent feedback and surprise early support and recommendation for our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill for the 2027 Legislative Session!
Overview
This year’s Nevada Legislative Session has taught us many things about politics and the inner workings and dealings to make Film Tax Credit Programs happen on the State level. Though this didn’t turn out for our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill just yet, we have been having several important meetings regarding Babs Do Studios, including finding new modular construction suppliers, finding our general contractor team in Nevada, and being put on the path for new potential investors.
There are also some other things in the works that we can’t discuss but it is clear that Nevada Citizens want a larger Film and Media industry in Nevada but they want it done the right way. We believe that we have this with the best ideal new age studio solution and the most advanced Film Tax Credit Bill in the country in order to benefit all Nevada artists, students, and workers statewide!
Support Nevada Film with Babs Do
For anyone that wishes to share their support for our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill in 2027, though it will be rewritten and refined, please share our Universal Bill with your Nevada Representatives now and after the upcoming elections.
To those that wished to see more jobs and film opportunities in Nevada in 2026, to help speed up Babs Do Studios’ development, please contact Governor Joe Lombardo and Mayor Shelley Berkley and let them know you want them to help us build Hollywood 2.0 in Nevada as soon as possible!