CARSON CITY — A bill that defines antisemitism for discrimination investigations is in the final stages of consideration in the Nevada Legislature, but a weekend vote in which 10 lawmakers were absent suggests there were disagreements on how to define the term.

Senate Bill 179 would define the term for Nevada Equal Rights Commission investigations into discrimination in housing, employment and accommodations.

On the evening of May 23, the Assembly passed the bill 28-4, with 10 Democratic members given excused absences.

It faced some debate when moving through the Assembly. Jewish advocacy groups testified in opposition to the bill in a May 13 hearing, asking for it to be amended to include the widely recognized working definition of antisemitism created by the International Holocaust Re

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