Lawmakers will end their work week with hearings Friday on standardized testing overload, providing more need-based aid to university students, and the state's sentencing commission.

In addition, Friday’s calendar includes budget presentations on charter school regulators and the Division of Parole and Probation.

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 Friday at the Legislature:

AB80 & AB148: Rethinking sentence lengths and plea agreements

Lawmakers on the Assembly Judiciary Committee are considering AB80, a bill that would add to the Nevada Sentencing Commission an office with full-time, paid staff. The 25-member commission was designed to review sentencing guidelines and make recommendations on the minimum and maximum sentences that are appropriate for a given crime.

The committee is also taking up AB148, which would specify that any plea agreement a defendant enters into with a district attorney is a conditional agreement, and is subject to approval from a judge. The measure is brought by Democratic Assemblyman Ozzie Fumo.

The committee meets at 8 a.m.

Charter school and parole budget hearings

A joint Senate / Assembly budget subcommittee on health and education is reviewing the budget of the State Public Charter School Authority. A separate subcommittee is hearing Division of Parole and Probation and parole board budgets.

Both panels meet at 8 a.m.

SB145 & SB146: Audit on testing overload, need-based scholarship for university students

The Senate Education Committee will hear the results of a much-anticipated audit exploring whether Nevada is doing too much standardized testing. Lawmakers sought the audit through a bill in the 2017 session.

Committee members will then review SB145, which aims to create a need-based scholarship called the Battle Born Opportunity Grant for students in 4-year universities. Nevada presently has the Silver State Opportunity Grant, a need-based award that applies to students in 2-year colleges and Nevada State College, and the merit-based Millennium Scholarship.

They will also consider SB146, which changes the credit load requirements for the Silver State Opportunity Grant. Instead of requiring 15 credits a semester, it would require 30 credits in an academic year, which would allow students to take 12 credits a semester and six over the summer and still qualify.

The committee is meeting 20 minutes after the adjournment of the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee, so likely mid-morning.

AB90: Sick leave to help family members

The Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor will consider a bill, AB90, that would require private employers to allow their employees to use accrued sick leave to deal with an illness, injury, medical appointment or other medical need with a member of their immediate family. However, employers would be able to limit the amount of sick leave an employee may use for such a purpose.

The bill will be heard at 1:30 p.m.