Senate Bill No. 9–Joint Rules Committee

 

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee to provide assistance to certain educational programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

   Section 1. 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the state general

 fund to the Interim Finance Committee the sum of $5,000,000 for

 allocations to existing educational programs that are at risk of termination

 because of a lack of funding.

   2.  The money appropriated by subsection 1 may only be allocated to

 an existing educational program if all other sources of funding for the

 existing educational program that have been appropriated by the

 Legislature have been exhausted by the requesting program. Money

 allocated pursuant to this section must not be used to negotiate the salaries

 of educational personnel.

   3.  The State Board of Examiners shall adopt policies, procedures and

 criteria for the review of requests for allocations pursuant to subsection 4.

 Upon the adoption of such policies, procedures and criteria, the State

 Board of Examiners shall transmit a copy of the policies, procedures and

 criteria to the Interim Finance Committee for approval. Upon approval of

 the policies, procedures and criteria, the Interim Finance Committee shall

 transmit a copy of the policies, procedures and criteria to the Department

 of Education. The policies, procedures and criteria adopted by the State

 Board of Examiners may not be used until they are approved by the

 Interim Finance Committee.

   4.  If the administrator of an existing educational program believes that

 the program is at risk of termination because of a lack of funding during

 the 2001-2003 biennium, the administrator of the program may submit a

 request to the Department of Education for an allocation from the

 appropriation in subsection 1.

   5.  The Department of Education, the Budget Division of the

 Department of Administration and the Fiscal Analysis Division of the

 Legislative Counsel Bureau shall jointly review a request submitted

 pursuant to subsection 4, using the policies, procedures and criteria

 approved by the Interim Finance Committee pursuant to subsection 3.

 Upon completion of the review, a recommendation for or against an

 allocation to the requesting educational program must be submitted to the

 State Board of Examiners.

   6.  The State Board of Examiners shall consider each request and

 recommend the amount of the allocation, if any, to the Interim Finance

 Committee.

   7.  The Interim Finance Committee is not required to approve the entire

 amount of an allocation recommended pursuant to subsection 6 or to

 allocate the entire amount appropriated by subsection 1.

   8.  Any remaining balance of the sum appropriated by subsection 1

 must not be allocated by the Interim Finance Committee after June 30,

 2003, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of

 money committed have been made.

   Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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