2-Minute Preview: Lawmakers set to hear bills requiring immigration enforcement reports, 50 percent RPS

With only 10 days left until the deadline for bills to clear their first committees, lawmakers' agendas on Tuesday are packed with another marathon day of bill hearings.
Some of the measures up for hearings would require law enforcement officials to report how often they transfer people to federal immigration authorities, mandate that prisoners be counted at their last known address for redistricting purposes and implement a 50 percent renewable portfolio standard.
Other proposals would create residency requirements for filling vacant legislative seats, limit tax credits for the Opportunity Scholarship program and establish a "closed-loop" payment system for marijuana businesses.
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:
AB376: Reporting transfer of undocumented immigrants
Proposed by Democratic Assemblywoman Selena Torres, AB376 would require that law enforcement agencies report to state lawmakers how often they transfer people to federal immigration authorities and the severity of the underlying crimes those immigrants were arrested on suspicion of.
The bill requires law enforcement to annually compile a list of how many undocumented people were transferred to the custody of a federal agency after being detained by a local agency, but specifies the information can only be used for research and statistical purposes and cannot identify any detained individuals. The measure comes amid criticism that Las Vegas police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leading to people being deported for minor issues such as traffic tickets.
The bill will be heard in the Assembly Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m.
AB422: Court exemptions for crime victims
This bill creates several new legal protections for victims of domestic violence or sexual assault during court cases, including prohibiting a judge from deeming them in contempt of court if they do not respond to a subpoena.
Sponsored by the Assembly Judiciary Committee, AB422 additionally prohibits judges from requiring bail for certain crime victims if they are required to appear as a witness and it is impracticable to secure their presence with a subpoena. It also prohibits a court from issuing a warrant for failure to appear in court for victims of those crimes.
The bill will be heard in committee at 8 a.m.
SB294: Police shooting confidentiality
Proposed by Democratic Sen. Yvanna Cancela, this bill would provide that any administrative report prepared by a law enforcement agency in regards to a police shooting is considered privileged and not generally subject to disclosure. The bill also holds that the findings or conclusion of the report are not considered privileged.
It'll be heard at 8 a.m. in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB375: Exempting home businesses from state licensing
Under this bill proposed by Republican Sen. Ira Hansen, any individual who operates a business from a home is exempt from having to obtain a state business license if the annual gross income from such a business is less than $60,000.
It'll be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m.
AB379: Home rule exemptions
This bill, proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Skip Daly, would prohibit any local government or jurisdiction from exercising any power or right granted to the state government by the federal government.
The bill comes four years after state lawmakers approved a bill granting counties functional "home rule," defined typically as granting them the discretion to pass ordinances and act on certain matters without the expressed permission of the state government.
It'll be heard in the Assembly Government Affairs Committee at 8:30 a.m.
AB343: Task force on mental health for children
Proposed by Democratic Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe Moreno, this bill would require school districts and charter schools to provide at least eight hours every two years of professional development training for teachers and administrators related to the mental health of students.
The bill also creates a statewide task force on mental health for students, charged with developing a plan on improving mental health services for children in the state and submitting it to the Legislature.
AB401: Car registration fees based on miles traveled
If approved, this bill would remove the state's current structure for car registration fees, and instead create an entirely new system where registration fees are based on miles traveled by a vehicle.
Sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Alexander Assefa, AB401 would create a 1 cent per mile charge with a variety of fees and other credits depending on mile per gallon rating and other factors. It requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to post the rates and adjustment factors and to create an online tool where an individual can see the estimated cost of a registration fee. Because it amends tax structure, the bill would require a two-thirds vote to pass.
It will be heard in the Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure at 12:30 p.m.
AB465: Affordable solar access program
This bill would require electric utilities such as NV Energy to offer an affordable solar access program for low-income residential customers.
The measure is sponsored by the Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure, and would require applicable utilities submit a plan for an affordable solar access plan on or before April 1, 2020. The bill requires the plan to include the capacity of the program, requiring between two to five geographic areas be served by the plan and offer stable rates to program enrollees.
The bill will be heard in the Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure at 12:30 p.m.
SB298: Partial tax abatements for renewable energy facilities
Proposed by Democratic Sen. Chris Brooks, SB298 would create several accounting measures and requirements for renewable energy facilities that receive tax abatements from the state.
The bill requires that any business that receives such a partial tax abatement from the state keep certain information related to individual employees, which must be accessible to the state Office of Energy at all "reasonable hours." It also authorizes the office to conduct on-site inspections or audits of facilities that receive tax abatements, and require them to provide information related to payroll records required to be submitted to obtain the tax abatements.
The bill will be heard at the Senate Committee on Growth and Infrastructure at 1:30 p.m.
SB358: 50 percent RPS
Just months after a ballot question that would increase the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard to 50 percent by 2030, Nevada lawmakers are set to hear details of a bill that would accomplish that goal at a faster pace.
The bill, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Chris Brooks, would increase the renewable standard growth rate from 25 percent in 2025 to 50 percent by 2030. The bill allows utilities to meet the standard using a three-year rolling average, requires companies that have left an electric utility's service meet the higher standard and require certain electric cooperatives and municipal power districts meet the standard once they reach a certain size.
NV Energy CEO Doug Cannon told lawmakers last month that the utility would support a higher RPS.
The bill will be heard in the Senate Committee on Growth and Infrastructure at 1:30 p.m.
SB447: Implementing Question 4
This bill, sponsored by the Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development, enacts a ballot measure approved by voters in 2018 exempting certain durable medical equipment, oxygen delivery equipment and mobility enhancing equipment from the sales tax.
The bill will be heard by the committee at 1:30 p.m.
AB448: Residency requirements for vacancies
The Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee sponsored this bill to require someone who is appointed to fill a legislative vacancy to have lived in the district for at least 30 days before the close of the filing period for the seat.
It will be heard by the committee at 4 p.m.
AB450: Including prisoners in redistricting
This bill, also sponsored by the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee, would require the state demographer to include the last known residential address of inmates when conducting decennial census to be used to apportion and redistrict congressional, legislative and other districts for elections.
The bill will be heard at 4 p.m.
AB458: Tax credits for Opportunity Scholarship program
This bill, sponsored by the Assembly Education Committee, would make changes to the existing Opportunity Scholarship program, which allows businesses to donate to scholarship organizations and then receive a modified business tax credit in return. Under existing law, the program grows by 10 percent each year, but this bill would limit the tax credits available to businesses to roughly $6.7 million a year.
The bill will be heard by the Assembly Taxation Committee at 4 p.m.
AB466: "Closed-loop" payment system for marijuana businesses
Sponsored by the Assembly Growth and Infrastructure Committee, this bill would require the state treasurer to establish a pilot program to create one or more "closed-loop" payment processing systems that would allow marijuana money to circulate within the industry but not touch regular banks or the general money system. The bill would also allow state and local governments to collect taxes through the system.
It will be heard by the Assembly Taxation Committee at 4 p.m.
SB111+ SB153: Collective bargaining
Two measures affecting collective bargaining for teachers and other unions are set to be heard in an evening meeting of the Senate Committee on Government Affairs.
SB111, sponsored by the Senate Committee on Government Affairs, would reduce the amount of budget expenditures a school district is allowed to put aside and not consider in collective bargaining negotiations. The bill would reduce the amount from 25 percent — initially put in place in 2015 — to 16.67 percent.
The other bill, SB153, amends several deadlines for the Local Government Employee-Management Board related to conducting hearings and hearing complaints related to collective bargaining agreements. The bill also removes a prohibition on any administrator above the rank of school principal from entering into a collective bargaining unit and instead requires them to join a separate bargaining unit from the employees they supervise. It also amends "evergreen" provisions in collective bargaining agreements, which allow scheduled pay increases and other benefits to continue even if labor and management are unable to come to a new agreement.
The committee will meet at 6:30 p.m.
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