It has been a rollercoaster of a year for Nevada gaming
regulators, with multiple changes at the Nevada Gaming Control
Board ("Board") and Nevada Gaming Commission
("Commission"), including the appointment of a new Chair
of the Board, Sandra Douglass Morgan, in January by new Nevada
Governor Steve Sisolak. Chair Morgan had been a member of the
Commission since April of 2018. Governor Sisolak has yet to appoint
a replacement for Chair Morgan's now-vacated seat on the
Commission or for Shawn Reid, who retired from the three-member
Board when his term expired at the end of January, leaving both the
Board and Commission short a member for the time being.
Despite the turnover, Chair Morgan and the other remaining
members of the Board and Commission are facing head-on the task of
working with Nevada's legislators to update Nevada's gaming
laws in the 2019 Nevada legislative session, which runs
February-June of this year.
