Lawmakers will consider bills on Tuesday that would protect federal workers during a government shutdown, create a statewide homelessness council and allow school districts to replace snow days with "digital days."

Other bills up for hearings propose to change the way wards are divvied up for purposes of electing members of a City Council, create a model for schools to respond to students in crisis and makes sexual conduct between police officers and detainees a Class D felony.

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:

AB349: Prohibits sexual conduct between police officers and detained persons

Proposed by Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson, AB349 would prohibit any law enforcement officer from engaging in voluntary sexual conduct with a prisoner or arrested individual, punishable by a Class D felony.

Unwanted sexual conduct by a law enforcement officer is already a crime under Nevada law, but the bill would clarify that any sexual conduct between police and a detained person is a crime regardless of whether the person grants consent. The bill does exempt acts “performed to carry out the necessary duties of the law enforcement officer.”

The bill is scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m.

AB393: Protections for federal workers during government shutdowns

Inspired by the lengthy partial federal government shutdown earlier this year, AB393 would institute numerous protections for federal and state workers in the event government funding runs out.

Proposed by Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson, the bill would prohibit any foreclosure on property owned by a federal or state worker during a shutdown and until 90 days after a shutdown ends and also would require any court hearing a civil case related to a foreclosure to determine whether the worker’s ability to pay on a mortgage loan was materially affected by the shutdown.

The measure also would prohibit a summary eviction or automobile repossession of a state or federal worker during a shutdown and makes rental agreements with such workers unenforceable during the length of a shutdown, instead putting rent payments essentially on hold until 30 days after the end of the shutdown, at which point the federal or state worker only has to make one normally scheduled rent payment for the entire shutdown period.

The bill is scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m.

AB174: Homelessness to Housing Council

Sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson, AB174 would create a statewide council designed to coordinate the response of local and state agencies to address homelessness, including developing a strategic plan every five years.

The bill would require the committee to meet at least four times a year and sets up a membership including the governor’s chief of staff, several state agency heads, the sheriffs of Clark and Washoe counties, District Court judges and at least one person who has experienced homelessness.

The bill will be heard in the Assembly Committee on Government Affairs, which is scheduled to meet at 8:30 a.m.

AB314: Authorizes ‘digital days’ in place of snow days

Lawmakers will consider a bill that would explicitly authorize “digital days” in which students can work from home instead of coming into class because of snow or other health and safety issues. The concept allows students to avoid making up “snow days” during the summer to hit the minimum of 180 days in school.

Washoe County School District ran into problems this winter when it called for digital days, but was then told by state officials that those were against the law. The bill, sponsored by Republican Assemblywoman Jill Tolles, would allow such days, but cap them at three per year.

The bill will be heard by the Assembly Education Committee at 1:30 p.m.

AB378: Transporting children in crisis

This bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Alexis Hansen, requires the model crisis and emergency response plan that the Department of Education develops for schools to include a plan for transporting students who are determined to be a clear and present danger to themselves or others to a mental health facility.

The legislation clarifies that any mental health facility may accept such a student for emergency admission regardless of whether his or her parent or legal guardian has consented to such an admission. Under the bill, school police officers would also be able to make an application for an involuntary court-ordered admission to a mental health facility or other outpatient treatment facility.

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

SB114 + SB181: Electric vehicles

Two measures affecting electric vehicles and proposed by Republican Senate Minority Leader James Settelmeyer are scheduled for hearings in the Senate Committee on Growth and Infrastructure.

The first bill, SB114, would impose a 10 percent surcharge on electricity sold through electric vehicle charging ports in the state and deposit the funds in the State Highway Fund, the primary budget account for road construction and repair. The bill would take effect in 2020.

Settelmeyer is also scheduled to present SB181, which would create a special license plate for any vehicle partially or wholly powered by an electric motor.  The cost of the license plate would go to administrative costs with excess proceeds split equally between the State Highway Fund and the Office of Energy, which is required to use the funds to support a state electric vehicle charging infrastructure in rural areas.

These bills will be heard at 1:30 p.m.

Discussion of Affordable Housing Tax Credit Program

The Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development is not slated to hear any bills on Tuesday but rather will discuss the creation of an Affordable Housing Tax Credit Program.

The committee will meet at 1:30 p.m.

AB282: Changes to municipal elections

This bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Ellen Spiegel, makes a number of changes to the way cities are divided into wards for purposes of electing members of a City Council.

The legislation requires each incorporated city to be divided into a number of wards so that there are an odd number of members on the City Council; mandates that no city may have more than eight wards if the mayor is a voting member of the City Council or nine if he or she isn’t; specifies that the wards should be of nearly equal population and that the population of each ward must be less than the average population of Assembly districts in the state.

The bill would also require that the number and boundaries of existing wards be changed when its population exceeds the average population of Assembly districts in the state. It also makes a change to how vacancies are filled on the City Council in the event that a majority of the governing body has been appointed to the board.

The bill will be heard in Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections at 4 p.m.