Lawmakers on Tuesday will consider taking the first steps toward electing the president by popular vote, rather than the Electoral College, and will consider loosening the eligibility rules for some recipients of the need-based Silver State Opportunity Grant.

Their agenda also includes presentations from major utility companies and an overview of a two-decade-old settlement with tobacco companies that has been supporting — among other things — the Millennium Scholarships.

For more information on the status of bills working their way through the Legislature, check out The Nevada Independent’s bill tracker. And for the bills in committee today, check out the Legislature’s website for committee times and links to watch live committee meetings and floor sessions.

Here’s what to watch for on Tuesday at the Legislature:

AB155: Exceptions to 15-credit requirement for need-based scholarship

Members of the Assembly Education will review AB155, a measure that allows certain students who are taking less than 15 credits in a semester to qualify for the need-based Silver State Opportunity Grant.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assemblywoman Selena Torres and a long list of Democrats, allows money for students who are taking 12 credits in a semester if they can show they have a hardship that requires them to reduce their credit load, or if they are in their final semester.

The Nevada System of Higher Education has resisted lowering the credit requirement in the past because statistics show that students taking less than 15 credits in a semester are significantly less likely to graduate on time.

The Assembly Education Committee meets at 1:30 p.m. Members will also hear a presentation on workforce development from Tammy Thieman of Amazon Career Choice.

Primer on utilities, airports

Members of the Assembly Growth and Infrastructure Committee will get an overview of utility companies in Nevada, including NV Energy and Southwest Gas. They’ll also hear from representatives of three different Nevada airports.

The committee meets at 1:30 p.m.

The Senate Growth and Infrastructure Committee will hear presentations by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission and the Governor’s Office of Energy.

The committee also meets at 1:30 p.m.

Tobacco settlement and cigarette regulation

The Senate Revenue and Economic Development Committee will hear a presentation from the attorney general's office about the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, in which major tobacco companies settled with states about two decades ago in lawsuits over the health-care costs for smokers.

Members will also review two bills related to the technicalities of cigarette labeling and the regulation of wholesalers.

The committee meets at 1:30 p.m.

AB186: National Popular Vote

Yet again, Nevada lawmakers will review a proposal that would pledge the state’s six electoral votes to the winner of the presidential national popular vote winner.

Democratic Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson is scheduled to present details of AB186 — which would enroll Nevada into a coalition of states pledging their electoral college votes to the popular vote winner — in the Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Election at their 4 p.m. meeting.

So far, 13 states with 181 electoral votes have signed onto the measure, most recently Colorado. The “compact” isn’t effective until states with at least 270 votes, a majority of the Electoral College, have agreed to join. Supporters say the bill would give people in states with heavy partisan lean toward either party a reason to cast a ballot and end use of the Electoral College system, though opponents say the measure would lead to smaller states such as Nevada losing clout on the national stage as presidential candidates focus on population-dense areas.

A similar bill was proposed by former Democratic Assemblyman Nelson Araujo in the 2017 legislative session, but failed to make it out of committee. A similar proposal was approved on mostly party-lines in the 2009 legislative session, but never passed out of the Senate.

AB32: Workforce Development

Proposed by the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development, AB32 would expand the category of businesses able to apply to the office for workforce development and training to nonprofit organizations as well as state and local government agencies.

The bill, which is scheduled for a hearing in the Assembly Taxation Committee at 4 p.m., also changes other portions of existing law on workforce development to include programs training existing employees of a participating employer.