Nevada lawmakers are kicking off their fifth week of the 120-day legislative session with a packed schedule of bill hearings.

Lawmakers are due to hear details of bills that affect pharmacy benefit managers, marijuana massages, prohibiting forced microchipping and a major school safety measure.

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 Monday at the Legislature:

SB65: Rural DMV offices

Proposed by the rural city of West Wendover, this bill would allocate hundreds of thousands of dollars to build Department of Motor Vehicles branch offices in West Wendover and Caliente.

Scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Finance Committee, SB133 would allocate $1.32 million over the next two years equally to the two rural Eastern Nevada communities. West Wendover’s nearest DMV office is in Elko the nearest branch office to Caliente is in Mesquite.

The committee will meet at 8 a.m.

AB226: Prohibition on forced microchipping

After a similar bill sponsored by Republican state Sen. Becky Harris failed to advance last session, Democratic Assemblyman Skip Daly is taking up the mantle of a forced microchipping ban.

The legislation, AB226, would prohibit an officer or employee of the state and its political subdivisions or any other person from forcing someone to be implanted with a microchip or other permanent identification marker of any kind. Anyone who violates the law would be subject to a category C felony.

The bill will be heard in Assembly Judiciary at 8 a.m.

SB69: Cybersecurity and Public Safety

Brought on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, SB69 would make various changes to the state’s emergency management system including more emergency reporting requirements for resort hotels and local governments and allows the governor to call on the National Guard in case of a “serious” cyber attack.

The bill, which is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Committee on Government Affairs, also standardizes reporting requirements on emergency management plans for school districts, local governments and utilities, including requiring all cities and counties to adopt a cybersecurity incident response plan, required to be reviewed every year. It also requires the governor to declare October as “Cybersecurity Awareness Month.”

It’s one of seven bills proposed by the Division of Emergency Management up for a hearing during the committee, which meets at 1 p.m.

AB141: Pharmacy benefit manager gag rules

A bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Melissa Hardy and Assemblyman Tom Roberts would bar the middlemen in the drug pricing process — known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs — from prohibiting a pharmacist or pharmacy from providing information to a patient about the availability of a less expensive or more effective drug, or a less expensive manner of acquiring a drug. Such a manner of restricting information is typically referred to as a gag rule.

The bill would also block PBMs from penalizing pharmacists or pharmacies for selling a less expensive generic drug or a more effective drug to a patient.

The legislation, if passed, would build on a bill approved by the Legislature in 2017 that barred PBMs from providing information to patients about the amount of a copayment or coinsurance for a prescription drug or the clinical efficacy of a less expensive alternative drug.

The bill will be heard in Assembly Commerce and Labor at 1:30 p.m.

AB47 + AB85: Two regional behavioral health policy board bills

Two bills proposed by two of the newly created regional behavioral health policy boards are up for hearings in Assembly Health and Human Services.

One of the bills, AB47, proposes to create a pilot program to address the transportation issues associated with providing crisis mental health care in rural Nevada. If approved by lawmakers, the pilot program would allow for an initial in-person response to a person undergoing a mental health crisis and develop a new transportation model to transport those individuals to a facility where they can receive help.

A second bill, AB85, aims to clarify and standardize the procedure used for involuntary mental health holds, known as Legal 2000s. For one, the legislation would clarify the time frame for mental health holds by specifying that the 72-hour clock for the hold begins as soon as an application for emergency admission is filed. The bill would also change the timeline under which a petition for involuntary court-ordered admission to a mental health facility is ordered.

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

SB228: Marijuana massages

This bill, sponsored by state Sen. Pat Spearman, would allow health-care providers, massage therapists, nail technologists, reflexologists and other wellness practitioners to administer marijuana-infused products or similar products containing industrial hemp to a patient or client. It also allows such practitioners to recommend the use of marijuana or industrial hemp to treat a condition.

The legislation also bars medical professionals from refusing to prescribe or dispense prescription pain medicines solely because the patient uses marijuana or CBD.

While the legislation calls for the creation of a Cannabis Control Commission responsible for approving or denying applications for marijuana licenses, an advisory panel put together by Gov. Steve Sisolak is still expected to propose separate legislation to create a Cannabis Compliance Board.

SB222: Hearing aids for hard-of-hearing children

This legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Joe Hardy, would require the Division of Aging and Disability Services to develop and administer a program to give hearing aids to children who are hard of hearing at no charge if they live in a household that is at or below 205 percent of the federal poverty level. The bill would require an existing surcharge of no more than 8 cents per month on each telephone line to be used to fund the hearing aids.

The bill will be heard in Senate Health and Human Services at 4 p.m.

SB60: New provider type for for-profit behavioral health agencies and stricter penalties for Medicaid fraud

This bill, sponsored by the attorney general’s office, establishes a new type of a “facility for the dependent” under state law that would apply to for-profit agencies that provide services for the care and treatment of people with mental health issues or an intellectual or developmental disability or who abuses drugs. Such facilities would be subject to existing law regulating similar types of facilities, including statutes that require employees to pass a background check and have not been convicted of certain crimes.

The legislation will also change an existing provision that says that Medicaid can require providers to consent to criminal background checks as a condition of enrolling to a requirement that providers undergo background checks. It also exempts civil or criminal actions related to Medicaid fraud from the statute of limitations typically applicable to crimes that are committed in a secret manner and increases the criminal penalties for Medicaid fraud if the value of the fraud exceeds $650.

The bill will be heard in Senate Health and Human Services at 4 p.m.

SB57 + SB89: School safety and education omnibus legislation

Democratic Senator Yvanna Cancela and Republican Assemblywoman Jill Tolles will present recommendations from the Statewide School Safety Task Force convened by Gov. Brian Sandoval last year to a special joint meeting of the Senate and Assembly education committees Monday night.

Lawmakers who sit on the education committees will then hear two bills, one sponsored by the attorney general’s office placing tighter restrictions on who has access to school blueprints and an education omnibus bill that contains changes to school accountability reports, would require the addition of a new committee on school safety and mandate that schools prepare a plan in the event of a crisis, emergency or suicide.

The school blueprint bill, SB57, makes any blueprint or diagram of the layout of a public school confidential and requires that the document be provided to public safety agencies upon request or to certain persons or government entities for school-specific purposes. The legislation would require private school principals to provide a copy of the most current blueprint to a public safety agency upon request.

The omnibus education bill, SB89, also includes new requirements for a state framework for student support, mandates that school districts develop goal student-to-teacher ratios and a plan to implement them, designates school police officers as “category I peace officers” (putting them on par with municipal police officers or university police) and changes guidelines for disciplining students.

Both bills and the presentation will be heard at 6 p.m.