CARSON CITY — A special session of the Nevada Legislature started with dramatics on Thursday when a bill proposing increased tax breaks for the film industry survived a procedural challenge that could have blocked it from consideration.

During the initial reading and bill referral in the Nevada Assembly, Assemblymember Selena La Rue Hatch, D-Reno, invoked a rule that can be used to force a vote on whether a bill should be rejected from further consideration. Assembly leadership called a one-minute recess that stretched longer than half an hour as they consulted with legal counsel about how to proceed.

Before the end of the recess, Assemblymember Tracy Brown-May, D-Las Vegas — who had been marked as an excused absence at the start of the day — was teleconferenced in for the rejection vote

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