EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

1-1 Section 1. Chapter 353 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto

1-2 a new section to read as follows:

1-3 The University and Community College System of Nevada shall not

1-4 use money appropriated or authorized for expenditure by the legislature

1-5 to provide merit increases not specifically authorized by the legislature.

1-6 Sec. 2. NRS 353.150 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-7 353.150 NRS 353.150 to 353.246, inclusive, and section 1 of this act

1-8 may be cited as the State Budget Act.

1-9 Sec. 3. NRS 353.210 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-10 353.210 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, on or

1-11 before August 15 of each even-numbered year, all departments, institutions

1-12 and other agencies of the executive department of the state government,

1-13 and all agencies of the executive department of the state government

1-14 receiving state money, fees or other money under the authority of the state,

1-15 including those operating on money designated for specific purposes by

2-1 the constitution or otherwise, shall prepare, on blanks furnished them by

2-2 the chief, and submit to the chief estimates of their expenditure

2-3 requirements, together with all anticipated income from fees and all other

2-4 sources, for the next 2 fiscal years compared with the corresponding

2-5 figures of the last completed fiscal year and the estimated figures for the

2-6 current fiscal year.

2-7 2. The chief shall direct that one copy of the forms submitted pursuant

2-8 to subsection 1, accompanied by every supporting schedule and any other

2-9 related material, be delivered directly to the fiscal analysis division of the

2-10 legislative counsel bureau on or before August 15 of each even-numbered

2-11 year.

2-12 3. The budget division of the department of administration shall give

2-13 advance notice to the fiscal analysis division of the legislative counsel

2-14 bureau of any conference between the budget division of the department of

2-15 administration and personnel of other state agencies regarding budget

2-16 estimates. A fiscal analyst of the legislative counsel bureau or his

2-17 designated representative may attend any such conference.

2-18 4. The estimates of expenditure requirements submitted pursuant to

2-19 subsection 1 must be classified to set forth the data of funds, organizational

2-20 units, and the character and objects of expenditures, and must include a

2-21 mission statement and measurement indicators for each program. The

2-22 organizational units may be subclassified by functions and activities, or in

2-23 any other manner at the discretion of the chief.

2-24 5. If any department, institution or other agency of the executive

2-25 department of the state government, whether its money is derived from

2-26 state money or from other money collected under the authority of the state,

2-27 fails or neglects to submit estimates of its expenditure requirements as

2-28 provided in this section, the chief may, from any data at hand in his office

2-29 or which he may examine or obtain elsewhere, make and enter a proposed

2-30 budget for the department, institution or agency in accordance with the

2-31 data.

2-32 6. Agencies, bureaus, commissions and officers of the legislative

2-33 department, the public employees’ retirement system, the state industrial

2-34 insurance system and the judicial department of the state government shall

2-35 submit to the chief for his information in preparing the proposed executive

2-36 budget the budgets which they propose to submit to the legislature.

2-37 7. The base budget of the University and Community College System

2-38 of Nevada must not include money necessary to pay the portion of the

2-39 salaries of nonmerit positions resulting from merit increases previously

2-40 provided from money not appropriated or authorized for expenditure by

2-41 the legislature.

2-42 8. As used in this section, "nonmerit position" means the position of

2-43 dean or a higher position, including, without limitation, the positions of:

3-1 (a) Chancellor;

3-2 (b) Vice chancellor;

3-3 (c) Legal counsel to the chancellor;

3-4 (d) President of a university, community college or the desert research

3-5 institute;

3-6 (e) Vice president of a university, community college or the desert

3-7 research institute;

3-8 (f) Director of the university press;

3-9 (g) Director of the computing center;

3-10 (h) Administrator at a community college, if the position is equivalent

3-11 to the position of dean;

3-12 (i) Administrative head of a center within the desert research institute;

3-13 and

3-14 (j) Director of an intercollegiate athletic program.

3-15 Sec. 4. This act becomes effective on July 1, 1999.