Amendment No. 1031

Assembly Amendment to Senate Bill No. 282 (BDR S-1437)

Proposed by: Committee on Ways and Means

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Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sections 2 and 3 as sections 3 and 4 and adding a new section designated sec. 2, following section 1, to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. Section 54 of chapter 473, Statutes of Nevada 1997, at page 1784, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 54. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the department of education to pay the costs incurred by the department of education for purchasing, administering and scoring the examinations required of pupils who are enrolled in the 10th grade by the amendatory provisions of NRS 389.015:

For the fiscal year 1997-1998 $130,000

For the fiscal year 1998-1999 [$85,000] $96,500

2. The examinations purchased and administered by the department of education must be:

(a) Purchased from the same vendor from whom the 4th and 8th grade examinations are purchased; and

(b) The version of the examination that is administered to pupils in the 4th and 8th grades which is appropriate for administration in the 10th grade.

3. The sums appropriated by subsection 1 are available for either fiscal year. Any balance remaining of those sums must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 1999, and reverts to the state general fund as soon all payments of money committed have been made.".

Amend sec. 2, page 1, line 15, by deleting "$48,200" and inserting "$36,700".