Nevada casino and hotel employees are a step closer to a certain level of regulated safety, as members of the state’s Senate have preliminarily approved Senate Bill 4. If passed, funds would be set aside to ensure safety regulators routinely check resorts to ensure certain steps are being followed to keep employees safe, and keep those businesses safe from some forms of litigation.

After four-hour long hearing on August 3, the bill got through Senate Committee early August 14 by a vote of 18-3. The Nevada Independent notes that this bill dominated conversations, and has been pushed for by casinos, business groups and the Culinary Union.

Gubernatorial Chief of Staff Michelle White spelled out the aims of the bill:

“I want to be clear, the bill being presented tonight does not provide total immunity to all businesses, under all circumstances, far from it. These inevitable bad actors that have ignored and continue to ignore executive branch directives and published health and safety protocols will not be protected from liability for those failures. Those bad actors will continue to face legal consequences.”