2-Minute Preview: Bills banning child marriages, creating interim wildfire study up for hearings

With 91 days left in the legislative session, lawmakers will continue chipping away at their pile of unheard bills on Tuesday.
Bills to ban child marriages, align the expiration dates of driver authorization cards with driver's licenses and establish an interim study on wildfires will all be discussed by lawmakers throughout the day.
Another measure lawmakers will consider would fix a problem created by a two-day waiting period before towing cars that one state senator says has led to students at the University of Nevada, Reno illegally parking their cars for extended periods of time.
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:
Wrapping up the Medicaid budget
The budget subcommittee on human services will finish a hearing from Friday on the Nevada Medicaid budget. The committee meets at 8 a.m.
AB139: Banning child marriages
Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee will review AB139, which would ban marriage if the bride or groom is under the age of 18.
Current law requires minors who are 16 or 17 to get parental consent to marry and allows marriages at an even younger age if a District Court approves.
"Nevada is one of several states that has absolutely no minimum," Assemblywoman Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod said in a previous interview. "I think we have this idea that it happens elsewhere, and it is happening [here], and these young girls — their lives are ruined."
The committee meets at 8 a.m.
AB168: Restorative justice for students
Lawmakers in the Assembly Education Committee will consider AB168, which requires that schools provide a plan of action based on restorative justice before suspending or expelling a student.
Restorative justice means non-punitive intervention and support aimed at improving the student's behavior and remedying any harm the student caused.
The plan could include a referral to a community provider or to a student support team, a conference with the principal or other behavioral interventions.
The bill is backed by Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson and Assemblywoman Selena Torres, both Democrats. The committee meets at 1:30 p.m.
AB193: Aligning expiration dates of driver authorization cards with driver's licenses
Members of the Assembly Growth and Infrastructure Committee will hear AB193, a bill that would align the expiration date of a driver authorization card — issued to people who cannot fulfill ID requirements, often because they are undocumented — with the expiration date of regular driver's licenses.
Under existing law, the driver authorization card expires at the fourth birthday from the time the person received the card. Traditional driver's licenses expire either on the fourth or the eighth birthday after they were first issued.
The bill is sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Edgar Flores. The committee meets at 1:30 p.m.
SB212: UNR towing bill
Members of the Senate Growth and Infrastructure Committee will discuss SB212, which changes the law related to towing cars.
Existing law bars companies from towing a car until 48 hours after affixing a notice to the vehicle about why it's being removed.
Democratic Sen. Mo Denis, the bill's sponsor, said the measure is aimed at addressing unintended consequences, including that students at UNR repeatedly park illegally because they know their car will not be towed for two days.
The bill would allow the vehicle to be towed immediately if a notice was previously affixed to the car for the same or a similar reason in a residential complex, or three or more times for any reason during the past six months, regardless of whether the vehicle was ultimately towed in those earlier instances.
The committee meets at 1:30 p.m.
SJR3 of the 2017 session and ACR4: Voter bill of rights + interim study on wildfires
Members of the Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections will hear two bills on Tuesday and vote on a third.
Lawmakers will consider a constitutional amendment, proposed by state Sen. Pat Spearman, that would codify certain rights of voters that already exist in Nevada law into the state Constitution. The measure, SJR3, passed unanimously in the Senate and 38-3 in the Assembly, with Assembly members Lisa Krasner, Jim Marchant and Richard McArthur opposed, during the 2017 legislative session.
The measure has already unanimously passed the Senate this session, which means with the Assembly's stamp of approval it will head to the ballot for voters to approve or deny in 2020.
Committee members will also hear a measure that would create an interim committee to study wildfires. The bill text notes the "growing threat of wildfires" in the West and recent "large and devastating wildfires" in the state as the pretext for the study.
Lawmakers on the committee will also vote on whether to remove the Board of Regents from the Constitution, as proposed by AJR5 from the 2017 legislative session.
The committee meets at 4 p.m.
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