Nev. lawmakers reluctant to define gifts
By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun
Several state legislators took a jaunt to Israel last year, touring the Holy Land and dining beside the Sea of Galilee.
The largest Israeli lobbying group in the United States bankrolled the all-expenses trip, but when it came time this month for elected officials to report gifts they received in 2013, there was no reference to the trip.
The traveling lawmakers were only some of the elected officials in Nevada who accepted gifts sometimes worth thousands of dollars but declined to report them as required by state law.
Some of them dispute whether they legally need to report these gifts — in part because there is no explicit definition of a “gift” in state law.