The Legislature’s agenda on Monday is light on committee meetings and heavy on votes as lawmakers try to meet a Tuesday deadline to pass bills out of their first house.

All but two regularly scheduled committee meetings are cancelled Monday, with the focus turning to floor sessions.

Gov. Steve Sisolak is also expected to sign a bill raising Nevada’s renewable portfolio standard to 50 percent by 2030 as a way to mark Earth Day. 

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:

Office of New Americans

A joint Senate-Assembly budget committee will finalize budgets on the Office of Indigent Defense and the Office of New Americans — an initiative of Gov. Steve Sisolak.

The committee meets at 8 a.m.

AB221: People younger than 21 can work for gaming manufacturers

If approved, this bill would create a new exemption in Nevada law that typically prohibits individuals under the age of 21 from working at a casino to cover employees of gaming manufacturing or distributing companies.

AB221, which passed 40-0 in the Assembly and is sponsored by the Assembly Committee on the Judiciary, would allow individuals under the age of 21 to work for casino manufacturers as long as their work duties include working on gaming device software, fabrication or installation and modification of gaming devices and assorted equipment.

It’s up for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m.

Assembly votes

The Assembly has a long list of bills up for votes, including:

• AB152, which raises penalties on people who disturb the graves of Native Americans or steal prehistoric artifacts. Existing law makes such an act a gross misdemeanor and imposes escalating fines for repeat offenses, while this bill makes a third or subsequent offense a Category C felony.
• AB153, which would create a misdemeanor penalty for any adult who negligently stores or leaves a firearm in place where the person knows there is a “substantial risk” a child could obtain the firearm.
• AB166, which creates the crime of “advancing prostitution.” The bill aims to curb massage parlors that serve as fronts for illegal prostitution.
• AB192, which creates a process for someone to seal their record if they were convicted of an offense that has since been decriminalized.
• AB272, which requires Clark and Washoe counties to participate in the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The network is a way to gather information about guns used in the commission of crimes.
• AB363, which requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to waive fees if a homeless person requests a replacement license, allows free birth certificate copies for any homeless individual and to waive fees for driver’s license tests if an applicant is homeless.
• AB423, which would allow a court to reduce a felony sentence to a gross misdemeanor for an attempted crime upon completion of probation.
• AB492, which would allow for post-traumatic stress disorders suffered by first responders to be counted as an occupational disease compensable under industrial insurance.