1. Senate Bill No. 190–Committee on Commerce and Labor

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AN ACT relating to the rehabilitation division of the department of employment, training and

rehabilitation; renaming the vocational rehabilitation revolving account as the

rehabilitation division revolving account; eliminating the services to the blind

revolving account; providing for the transfer of the money in the services to the

blind revolving account to the rehabilitation division revolving account; increasing

the maximum permissible amount in the rehabilitation division revolving account;

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. NRS 615.255 is hereby amended to read as follows:

  1. 615.255 1. There is hereby created the [vocational] rehabilitation
  1. division revolving account in [the amount of $35,000 to] an amount not to
  1. exceed $90,000. The money in the revolving account may be used for the
  1. payment of claims of [applicants] :
  1. (a) Applicants for or recipients of services from [the bureau and
  1. vendors] :
  1. (1) The bureau of vocational rehabilitation, including, without
  1. limitation, the rehabilitation facilities described in subsection 2 of NRS
  1. 615.200; and
  1. (2) The bureau of services to the blind and visually impaired,
  1. including, without limitation, the vending stand program for the blind
  1. authorized by NRS 426.630 to 426.720, inclusive.
  1. (b) Vendors providing services to those applicants or recipients under
  1. procedures established by the [bureau.
  1. 2. Upon written request from the chief, the state controller shall draw
  1. his warrant from money already appropriated in favor of the chief in the
  1. sum of $35,000. When the warrant is paid, the chief shall deposit the
  1. $35,000] division.
  1. 2. The money in the revolving account must be deposited in a bank
  1. qualified to receive deposits of public money. The bank [must] shall secure
  1. the deposit with a depository bond satisfactory to the state board of
  1. examiners, unless it is otherwise secured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
  1. Corporation.
  1. 3. After expenditure of money from the revolving account, the [chief]
  1. administrator of the division shall present a claim to the state board of
  1. examiners. When approved by the state board of examiners, the state
  1. controller shall draw his warrant in the amount of the claim in favor of the
  1. [vocational] rehabilitation division revolving account, to be paid to the
  1. order of the [chief,] administrator, and the state treasurer shall pay it.
  1. 4. Money in the [vocational] rehabilitation division revolving account
  1. does not revert to the state general fund at the end of the fiscal year, but
  1. remains in the revolving account.
  2. 5. Purchases paid for from the [vocational] rehabilitation division
  1. revolving account for the purposes authorized by subsection 1 may be
  1. exempt from the provisions of the State Purchasing Act at the discretion of
  1. the chief of the purchasing division of the department of administration or
  1. his designated representative.

Sec. 2. NRS 426.565 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. At the end of the 1998-1999 fiscal year, the chief of the bureau

of services to the blind and visually impaired in the rehabilitation division

of the department of employment, training and rehabilitation shall transfer

the assets and liabilities, to the extent the assets are not encumbered for the

1998-1999 fiscal year, of the services to the blind revolving account that is

abolished pursuant to section 2 of this act to the rehabilitation division

revolving account.

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

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