Raggio said the governor would probably agree. But the session, if it’s called quickly, probably won’t be until later today, as the bills would have to be reprinted and renumbered. (SB 565 of the 74th Legislature would become SB 1 of the 23rd special session, for example.)

The majority leader denied that the upper house created the problem by sitting on bills that it had ready earlier in the day. He said the mechanics of passing bills and sending them to the Assembly was to blame. But he did admit in a brief interview that "I was a little apprehensive at midnight," about meeting the deadline. (Then again, Raggio had been conducting a Finance Committee meeting at 11 p.m.

Unlike the Assembly, the Senate stopped its work at 1 a.m., as state Sen. Bob Beers rose to the point of order.

Word on the governor’s decision will likely come later today. As for us, well, we’ve had our fill of Carson City and the fourth straight legislative session to require a special session to finish its business. We’ll be traveling home on Tuesday afternoon as scheduled. But we’ll give you all the details that we discover, in the short period from when we get up to when we jump in the car for that sweet ride to the Reno airport.