Lawmakers are taking no breaks on Thursday, with another packed committee agenda promising meetings to go late into the night.

Potentially controversial agenda items include a bill allowing prisoners to use telecommunications devices, lowering requirements for need-based community college scholarships and revamping the state’s film tax credit program.

Here’s what to watch for on Thursday:

AB420: iPads for prisoners

Senators will consider a bill that allows computers for prisoners and that narrowly passed in the Assembly last week. Sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman James Ohrenschall, the bill allows the Nevada Department of Corrections to charge offenders for videoconference services, and create exceptions to the general ban on telecommunication devices for visits or performing legal or educational research.

The bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass because it includes a fee increase, and failed a first vote amid GOP opposition. Two Republicans later flipped their votes, allowing the measure to survive.

Prison officials say they’re trying to assuage concerns that prisoners would hack the computers and use them for illegal activities, such as contacting accomplices to help them commit crimes.

Watch the hearing at 1:30 p.m. in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

SB125: Restoring rights to ex-felons

After passing out of the Senate on a 12-9 party line vote, a bill co-sponsored by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford and Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson to restore civil rights to ex-felons is up for its second committee hearing today.

The bill automatically restores voting rights and the right to serve on a jury to ex-felons one years into their probation or parole unless they were convicted of certain crimes such as murder or rape. Under current law, ex-felons can have their civil rights restored if they have an honorable discharge from parole or probation, have their records sealed in court or ar pardoned and specifically have their civil rights restored.

The bill also reduces the waiting time before a person who is convicted of certain crimes can have criminal records sealed.

Watch the hearing on the bill at 8 a.m. in Assembly Corrections, Parole and Probation.

AB188: Lower requirements for need-based scholarships

A state Senate committee is scheduled to take up a measure lowering the credit requirement for the state’s first need-based community college scholarship after it passed out of the Assembly along party lines.

Democratic Assemblywoman Olivia Diaz’s AB188 would lower the required credit hours for the Silver State Opportunity Grant from 15 to 12, and allow students to request waivers in cases of hardship or who are enrolled in less than 12 credits during their final semester.

The bill was amended to raise the minimum credit hour requirement from 9 to 12, but Assembly Republicans still opposed the measure over concerns that students not enrolled in 15 credits were less likely to graduate.

Watch the hearing on the bill at 3:30 p.m. in the Senate Education committee.

AB492: Film Tax Credit redux

State legislators are set to consider a proposal that would moderately revamp how the state’s tax credit system for motion picture companies would operate.

Existing law allows the Legislature to set a maximum tax credit amount for film companies every session, but AB492 would put a maximum $10 million per fiscal year that could be divvied up among motion picture companies doing businesses in the state. The amount would restart every subsequent fiscal year, and roll over any unappropriated tax credit funds.

The first film to apply and receive the state’s film tax credit was Paul Blart Mall Cop 2.

Watch the hearing on the bill at 8 a.m. in a joint hearing of the Assembly and Senate budget committees.