Nevada lawmakers are set to end another busy week with scheduled hearings on expanding sex trafficking definitions, reporting of deaths in county jails and creating a “Maternal Mortality Review Committee.”

Legislators have also scheduled committee votes on 21 pieces of legislation, and are scheduled to hear the budgets of the Department of Education and Department of Wildlife as well.

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:

AB120: Penalties for sex trafficking and solicitation of a child for prostitution

Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee are reviewing AB120, which would expand the definition of sex trafficking to include anyone who knowingly benefits financially or by receiving something else of value from someone who is sex trafficked.

The bill is sponsored by Republican Assemblywoman Lisa Krasner.

The committee meets at 8 a.m.

AB301: Deaths in county jails reporting

Proposed by Democratic Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson, AB301 would require more reporting and information on inmates who die in county jails.

The bill requires sheriffs who operate county jails to report each death of a prisoner, investigate every “suspicious” death or death from an unknown cause and submit to the County Commission a quarterly report of all deceased inmates over the past three months.

The measure also requires each County Commission to schedule a quarterly agenda item to review information on the deaths of prisoners. The bill comes amid a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation that found inmate deaths spiked more than 600 percent since 2015.

The bill will be heard in the Assembly Judiciary Committee, which meets at 8 a.m.

Department of Education and Department of Wildlife budgets

The budget subcommittees on K-12, higher education and capital improvement planning will hear several Department of Education budget accounts. They include instruction in financial literacy, teachers’ school supplies reimbursement and the Office of Early Learning and Development.

At the same time, the budget subcommittees on public safety, natural resources and transportation will hear the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ state parks and state lands budget accounts. It will also hear eight Department of Wildlife budget accounts, including conservation education, game and fisheries management and law enforcement.

The budget accounts will be heard at 8 a.m.

SB7: Vote to ramp up penalty for soliciting a child for sex

The committee will vote on nine different bills, including SB7, which raises the penalty for soliciting prostitution from a child under the age of 14. Someone who knowingly does that would be guilty of sex trafficking and must be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Existing law specified that the first offense was a category E felony punishable by 1 to 4 years.

The committee meets at 8 a.m.

SB256: Tenant protections

A bill proposed by Democratic Sen. Yvanna Cancela would enshrine several protections for renters.

The bill, SB256, would prohibit landlords or property sellers from discriminating against a tenant or property purchaser who receives income from governmental benefits, either from state or federal programs. It also prohibits landlords from refusing to rent a dwelling in a low-income housing project because the applicant has a “prior history of an inability to pay rent.”

The measure would also allow tenants to request an inspection of their dwelling prior to terminating their rental agreement or lease and require landlords provide an itemized list of deficiencies that could affect return of a security deposit.

The bill would also allow landlords to charge a “reasonable” late fee for nonpayment of rent, but prohibits it from being charged until more than 3 days after the rent was due and at 5 percent of the periodic rent. It also prohibits late fees from increasing based on previously imposed late fees for non-payment of rent.

It also requires landlords give tenants who have been evicted or locked out a “reasonable opportunity” to retrieve essential personal effects from their former dwelling.

The bill is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor at 1 p.m.

AB169: Maternal Mortality Review Committee

This bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno, would create a committee to review maternal deaths in the state.

The Maternal Mortality Review Committee would be tasked with reviewing maternal mortality incidents and severe maternal morbidity and then disseminating findings and recommendations to those involved in the health-care space and the public. The committee would also be required to publish an annual report on the subject and submit it to the Legislature.

The committee will be allowed to subpoena and compel the production of records related to maternal mortality. As such, the bill exempts those records from public records law and provides that the meetings of the committee are closed to the public.

The United States has the highest rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation, though Nevada actually ranks third for the lowest maternal mortality rates only behind California and Massachusetts.

The bill will be heard by the Assembly Health and Human Services at 1:30 p.m.

AB234: Requiring child care subsidies for foster children, kids of students

Lawmakers will review AB234, a bill that directs the state — to the extent it can — to guarantee funds from the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant cover foster children, children with disabilities and the children of parents who are studying for a degree.

The grant offers child care subsidies to low-income families, but the money is only serving a small fraction of the families who meet the income requirements.

The bill will be heard by the Assembly Health and Human Services at 1:30 p.m.