The Gaming Control Board Chairman, Dennis Neilander, mentioned during a conference that he would take a proposal to the state legislature that would recommend lowering the gambling age in the state of Nevada. After his statement, the Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley both criticized the idea.

The governor of Nevada, Republican Jim Gibbons also does not support the idea. An aide of the governor stated that Gibbons would not support the proposal. Neilander stated that he was not against or for lowering the gambling age from twenty one to eighteen but he would take the idea to 2009 legislature. He also stated that it would be hard to enforce a lowered gambling age.

Horsford said in the Las Vegas Review that he would not support a change in gambling age and that he did not see much support at all for the change. He stated: "I don't think there is a lot of appetite to consider it at this point."

A few of the Indian Casinos and fifteen states have a minimum age of eighteen to gamble. Also, in most states it is legal for eighteen year olds to buy lottery tickets. So the proposal is understandable.


- 2008-11-14