Lawmakers have another packed agenda on Thursday with bills on sealing records for victims of sex trafficking, ending off-year municipal elections and taxes on gun sales up for committee hearings.

They will also take up bills that would create additional protections for people under guardianship undergoing sterilization, allow rural counties to impose diesel fuel taxes and require the state's water engineer to reserve unallocated water in the state's many basins.

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 Thursday at the Legislature:

Budget hearings on the Departments of Business and Industry and Employment, Training and Rehabilitation

The budget subcommittee of general government will take up Department of Business and Industry budget accounts tomorrow, including the Division of Financial Institutions, the Division of Mortgage Lending and the Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers. At the same time, the budget committee on human services will hear about budget accounts dealing with the Equal Rights Commission, the Blind Business Enterprise Program and Vocational Rehabilitation within the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

Both committees meet at 8 a.m.

AB91: Sterilization of a person under guardianship

This bill, sponsored by the Legislative Committee on Senior Citizens, Veterans and Adults With Special Needs, imposes additional requirements on guardians seeking to sterilize a person under their care. Guardians are currently allowed to sterilize someone with court approval if it would directly benefit his or her physical or mental health or would help him or her develop or regain certain abilities.

The legislation adds a requirement that the court appoint an attorney and a guardian ad litem — a person the court appoints to determine what would be in someone's best interest — to represent the protected person if he or she does not have one. If the person has not consented to the sterilization procedure, the court would also be required to conduct a full evidentiary hearing before it can authorize the sterilization.

To authorize sterilization, the court would be required to find "by clear and convincing evidence" the procedure would be in the best interest of the protected person and consider whether "less irrevocable and intrusive" forms of contraception would be useful.

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

SB173: Sealing records of a victim of sex trafficking or involuntary servitude

This bill, sponsored by Sen. James Ohrenschall and several other Democratic senators, would expand the list of crimes for which victims of sex trafficking and involuntary servitude can petition the court to vacate their convictions and seal all records related to the case.

Right now, only offenses related to prostitution, unlawful trespass and loitering can be vacated and sealed by a court for victims of sex trafficking and involuntary servitude. The law would expand that list to include any crime other than a crime of violence, which is defined in the bill as "any offense involving the use or threatened use of force" and "any felony for which there is a substantial risk that force or violence may be used."

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

SB48: Diesel fuel taxes

Scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Revenue and Economic Development Committee, SB48 would allow all counties in Nevada to impose a 5 cent tax per gallon of diesel fuel.

The bill, proposed by the Nevada Association of Counties, would allow for counties with a population under 100,000 to impose the 5 cent tax if approved by a two-thirds majority of the county commission or a majority of voters in the next election, to be used for road repairs or highway truck parking. Similar special taxes on diesel fuel are already allowed in Clark County and Washoe County.

The measure is supported by a coalition of rural counties including Carson City, Lyon, Storey and Douglas. An advisory question placed on the 2018 ballot for residents of Fernley — which is seeking its own measure to allow incorporated cities impose the tax — saw the measure fall narrowly; 3,301 votes in favor and 3,324 opposed, a difference of 23 votes.

AB50: Ending off-year elections

Proposed by the secretary of state's office, AB50 would effectively end off-year elections for Nevada municipalities including the City of Las Vegas, Henderson and others.

If approved, the bill would require all cities that currently hold off-year elections (Boulder City, Caliente, Henderson, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Yerington) to move their elections to be held in conjunction with normal state and federal elections starting in 2022 and amends filing dates and other deadlines to reflect the changes.

The bill also allows for officials in those jurisdictions elected in 2017 or 2019 to serve an extra year in their terms, to allow for the transition to the statewide election cycle.

AB50 will be heard in the Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections at 4 p.m.

AB113: Taxes on gun sales

Under this bill, federally licensed firearms dealers in the state would be prohibited from charging a sales tax when facilitating an out-of-state gun purchase.

Proposed by Republican Assemblywoman Robin Titus, the bill targets a loophole where licensed firearm dealers are required to charge sales tax on out-of-state gun sales, which is required by federal law.

Titus said in an earlier interview that the legislation will take on renewed importance after lawmakers approved SB143, which requires background checks on nearly all guns sales and transfers between private parties with few exceptions.

The Department of Taxation said in a fiscal note that the potential cost of the bill could not be estimated, saying it anticipates being able to "absorb" the cost of the provisions but warned lawmakers that it could come before lawmakers in the interim period between sessions to ask for funds should the workload increase.

It's scheduled for a hearing in the Assembly Taxation Committee at 4 p.m.

SB140: Water conservation

Proposed by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, SB140 would require the state's water engineer to reserve a significant percentage of any unallocated water located in the state's many water basins.

SB140, which is scheduled for a committee hearing at 4 p.m. in the Senate Natural Resources Committee, requires the state engineer to reserve 10 percent of any remaining water in a basin that has water available for appropriation after July 1, 2019. The reserved water can then only be used on a temporary basis in case of an emergency, such as a drought declaration.