The Oakland A’s cleared another important hurdle Wednesday in their quest to receive $380 million from Nevada taxpayers for a new Ballpark in Las Vegas as the state Assembly’s approval the taxpayer-funded deal late Wednesday.

The state Assembly’s 25-15 vote means the A’s now have won approval from both houses in the Legislature, clearing a path for the team to fulfill its vision of a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark on the Vegas strip, though additional steps remain.

“I am really excited to make memories with my daughter and see other families make memories with their kids – and where tickets start at $12,” Assemblymember Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod, a Democrat said at Wednesday’s proceedings of a possible A’s stadium.

With its latest amendments, the proposal will return to the state Senate for another vote and if approved there, finally the desk of Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who has helped lead the effort to lure the As to Las Vegas.

The A’s have all the momentum, not from the team having won seven straight baseball games but from this current streak of political victories, starting with the state Senate’s 13-8 vote Tuesday to approve the team’s $380 million request.

The majority-Democratic senators compromised on the bill after the A’s agreed to include numerous community benefits, including measures for homelessness prevention and paid family leave that previously had been vetoed by Lombardo.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Assembly added its own set of amendments to the bill. One amendment, made public Wednesday afternoon, retracts the contribution of tax revenues to homelessness prevention and instead deposits the money into a community housing fund.

Some support for the bill has been strained by the inclusion — and, in one case, the subsequent retraction — of progressive measures that have nothing to do with building a stadium in Vegas.

Sen. Jeff Stone, a Republican, said before dissenting from Tuesday’s vote that the amended proposal “doesn’t pass the smell test,” even though he initially was supportive of the ballpark.

Both houses of the state’s Legislature are controlled by Democrats, who established a supermajority in the Assembly during last November’s election.

So far, though, the votes have not fallen along party lines, with some Democrats accepting compromise and others remaining ideologically opposed to funding sports stadiums with public money, and Republicans similarly diverging over whether taxpayer money should be risked on the A’s future.

If all goes as planned for the A’s, the timing would be almost poetic. A fan-organized “reverse boycott” at a Coliseum home game on Tuesday had 27,759 in attendance, with fans determined to show they aren’t the ones driving the franchise away.

The raucous crowd chanted loudly throughout the game for billionaire A’s owner John Fisher to “sell the team,” with the stakes of the Nevada decision hanging over the whole occasion.

In reality, the A’s relationship with Oakland would remain messy even if Nevada lawmakers agree to help pay for a shiny new Las Vegas ballpark.

The team remains on lease at the Coliseum through 2024, and the team’s previous plan to complete a Vegas stadium by 2027 now appears to be on a longer trajectory — a team-hired financial analyst said multiple times during the Senate proceedings that construction would be finished “in five years.”

What would happen during the intervening years? A’s President Dave Kaval has suggested the team would play at the 10,000-seat ballpark used by the team’s minor-league affiliate in Summerlin, Nevada, a half-hour drive from the Las Vegas strip.

The next-smallest ballpark used by a Major League team fits roughly 34,000 people, meaning the A’s eventual ballpark at the site of the Tropicana hotel on the strip would still be the league’s smallest.

Steve Hill, the CEO of Las Vegas’ marketing bureau and a supporter of the A’s stadium ambitions, said during Tuesday’s legislative session that the team has also considered playing games in Reno, where a 9,000-seat ballpark is home to another minor-league ball club.

Incidentally, the Oakland Coliseum ranks as the largest baseball stadium in the country with a capacity of 56,782.

The A’s also own half the ownership rights to the entire Coliseum complex, having acquired its share from Alameda County in 2019.

It remains unclear whether the team will look to sell off its half. The other stakeholders at the Coliseum say there have not been any recent discussions with the team about the property’s future.

The A’s are required to complete a firm stadium deal by January in order to continue receiving millions of dollars each year through Major League Baseball’s revenue-sharing model.