The clock is ticking for Nevada lawmakers, who have scheduled another set of packed committee hearings ahead of Friday’s deadline for bills to make it out of committee.

Measures scheduled for hearings on Monday include increasing compensation of Nevada System of Higher Education workers, changing the state’s opioid prescribing law, prohibiting discrimination when providing credit and regulating fingerprinting 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 Monday at the Legislature:

SB214: Study on college faculty compensation

If adopted, this bill would encourage the Nevada System of Higher Education to study and adopt regulations establishing a comprehensive pay system that regularly increases pay for certain “unclassified” teaching employees that meet or exceed standards of performance.

The bill, SB214, also would require the Board of Regents to report details of the pay increase structure (if it chooses to adopt it) to lawmakers and to report details to state and legislative budget staff prior to each legislative session.

It’ll be heard in the Senate Finance Committee at 8 a.m.

SB324: Teacher school supply reimbursement

As proposed by Democratic Sen. Marilyn Dondero Loop, SB324 would make various changes to the state’s law granting teachers a refund of up to $250 per year for any school supplies purchased out-of-pocket.

The bill would authorize school districts to provide teachers with credit or debit cards to purchase school supplies, and allow teachers who max out their spending to request additional funds if money remains in the statewide account for school supply reimbursement.

It’ll be heard in the Senate Finance Committee at 8 a.m.

AB425: Regulating fingerprinting businesses

This bill, proposed by the Assembly Committee on Government Affairs, would require any person or business that offers fingerprinting services to register with the secretary of state, maintain a cash or surety bond with the state.

It also would set several restrictions on advertisements by fingerprinting businesses and requires each business to provide customers with disclosures and other relevant information about the business.

It’s up for a hearing in committee at 9 a.m.

AB239: Opioid clarification bill

Sponsored by the Assembly Health and Human Services Committee, this bill would make changes to the opioid prescribing law passed in the 2017 legislative session that prompted complaints by physicians in the interim. The legislation would, among other things:

• Codify certain definitions from pharmacy board regulations, including course of treatment and acute pain
• Allow providers to still prescribe a controlled substance after reviewing a patient utilization report if they determine the prescription is medically necessary
• Allow providers to prescribe a longer initial prescription for a controlled substance for the treatment of acute pain than normally allowed by law if medically necessary
• Remove a requirement that a provider make a good faith effort to attempt to review a patient’s medical records before issuing an initial prescription of a controlled substance for the treatment of pain unless the initial prescription is for more than 30 days or the medical records are relevant to the prescription
• Repeal requirements that providers consider certain factors — including whether there is reason to believe the patient is not using drugs as prescribed, the number of attempts by a patient to obtain an early refill of a prescription and the number of times a patient claims a prescription has been lost or stolen — before prescribing a controlled substance

The bill will be heard in Assembly Commerce and Labor at 12:30 p.m.

SB311: Prohibits discrimination when determining credit

This bill, sponsored by state Sen. David Parks, would protect people from being discriminated against on the basis of “race, color, creed, religion, disability, national origin or ancestry, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression” when having creditworthiness evaluated.

The legislation also would require the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to study the nature and extent on any discrimination based on those factors, as well as assist in programs that prevent or eliminate discrimination.

The bill will be heard in Senate Commerce and Labor at 1 p.m.

SB255: Worksession on Nevada Reconnect Scholarship

Lawmakers in the Senate Education Committee are slated to vote on whether to create the Nevada Reconnect Scholarship, which would expand the concept of the Nevada Promise Scholarship to older students. Both scholarships aim to help recent high school graduates attend community college for free, but the Reconnect Scholarship would target older students.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Dallas Harris, calls for a mentoring program and 20 hours of community service to be eligible for the scholarship. The legislation also asks for $1.75 million to fund the program.

The committee meets at 1 p.m. or upon call of the chair.

AJR7 + AJR8: Resolutions objecting to the Fallon Range Training Complex expansion and opposing the elimination of the Nevada State Office of the BLM

Sponsored by the Assembly Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining Committee, AJR7 proposes to express the Legislature’s opposition to a massive expansion of the Fallon Range Training Complex on the grounds that it would eliminate public recreation access, convert land planned to be the Fox Peak Area of Critical Environmental Concern and restrict the area’s potential use for mining and grazing.

Another resolution sponsored by the committee, AJR8, would express the Legislature’s opposition to a proposed reorganization of the Department of Interior, which would eliminate 49 regional offices that roughly coincide with state lines and replace them with 12 regions defined by landscape features.

The resolutions will be heard by the committee at 4 p.m.

SB293: Foster homes for sexually exploited children

Sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Julia Ratti, this bill would allow providers of foster care to obtain an endorsement to their license to target services toward sexually exploited children. Such foster homes would be subject to an annual inspection and the completion of intensive training.

The legislation defines “commercially sexually exploited children” as any children who have been “subjected to sex trafficking, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation for the financial benefit of any person or in exchange for anything of value.”

The bill also establishes that such children cannot be arrested or taken to a juvenile detention facility whether the child committed an act that would be considered a crime if committed by an adult, as long as the act wasn’t violent.

The bill will be heard in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which will begin upon the call of the chair but no later than 4 p.m.