exempt

                                                                                                  

 

Assembly Bill No. 209–Assemblymen Parnell, Leslie, Smith, Gibbons, Williams, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Berman, Buckley, Chowning, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Koivisto, Lee, Manendo, McClain, Neighbors, Parks and Perkins

 

February 21, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Ways and Means

 

SUMMARY—Makes appropriation to Welfare Division of Department of Human Resources to increase temporarily population which is eligible to qualify for assistance from Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. (BDR S‑979)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: Contains Appropriation not included in Executive Budget.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Welfare Division of the Department of Human Resources to increase temporarily the population which is eligible to qualify for assistance from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

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

1-2  fund to the Welfare Division of the Department of Human Resources the

1-3  sum of $5,000,000 to increase temporarily the population which is eligible

1-4  to qualify for assistance from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance

1-5  Program created by NRS 422.045.

1-6    2.  The money appropriated pursuant to subsection 1 must be used to

1-7  broaden temporarily the eligibility for assistance from the Low-Income

1-8  Home Energy Assistance Program to include a person whose family’s

1-9  monthly income for a calendar quarter is 200 percent or less of the

1-10  federally designated level signifying poverty.

1-11    Sec. 2.  Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by section 1

1-12  of this act must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2003, and

1-13  reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money

1-14  committed have been made.

 

2-1    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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