Lawmakers will consider ramping up prison sentences for certain domestic violence offenses and creating a scholarship for older students attending community college.

They’ll also work on a bill trying to tackle surprise out-of-network hospital bills and one creating a crisis response system for people who are homeless or on the verge of becoming so.

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:

AB60: Increasing penalties for domestic violence

Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee are reviewing bills related to domestic violence including AB60, which increases the penalties for domestic violence battery and stalking offenses or for domestic violence committed against a pregnant woman.

Existing law makes a third (or subsequent) domestic violence offense a category C felony that calls for 1 to 5 years in prison. The bill would raise the penalty to 1 to 20 years in prison.

The committee meets at 8:30 a.m.

SB255 + SB350: Promise Scholarship and Reconnect Scholarship

Lawmakers on the Senate Education Committee will consider SB255, which would expand the concept of the Nevada Promise Scholarships — which aims to help recent high school graduates attend community college for free — to older students.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Dallas Harris, also calls for a mentoring program and 20 hours of community service to become part of the eligibility requirements for the so-called “Nevada Reconnect Scholarship Program.” SB255 seeks $1.75 million to fund the program.

They’ll also hear SB350, which reduces the community service requirement from 20 to eight hours for the Nevada Promise Scholarship and reduces the number of mandatory pre-scholarship meetings from two to one.

The committee meets at 1 p.m.

SB290: Surprise out-of-network medical bills

One of the proposals to address surprise out-of-network medical bills this session, SB290 would require insurance companies to pay out-of-network providers a specified benchmarked rate for care provided when the patient did not have the ability to control or select their services or for any medically necessary emergency services.

The bill establishes that rate as the 80th percentile of all charges for the particular service in the geographic area where the service was provided, as determined by benchmarks from a database maintained by a nonprofit organization, such as FAIR Health. The proposal is based on model legislation from the National Council of Insurance Legislators.

The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Joe Hardy, would allow a provider to accept the patient’s usual co-pay, coinsurance or deductible and then file a claim with the patient’s insurance company for further reimbursement. The insurer would then be required to reimburse the out-of-network provider within 30 days based on the established metrics.

The bill will be heard by Senate Commerce and Labor at 1:30 p.m.

SB270: Nevada Crisis Response System

This bill, sponsored by Sen. Dallas Harris, would require the state to establish and run a crisis response system. The system would be responsible for working with social service agencies, local governments and nonprofit organizations to coordinate care and provide services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

It would also be responsible for responding to crises 24 hours a day, seven days a week and developing a prevention assistance program.

The bill will be heard in Senate Health and Human Services at 4 p.m.