Senate Bill No. 197–Senators Wiener, Rawson, Titus, Mathews, Care, Amodei, Coffin, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, Porter, Schneider, Shaffer and Washington

 

February 19, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Judiciary

 

SUMMARY—Authorizes department of prisons to request money from contingency fund if offenders’ store fund has insufficient money to provide for needs of therapeutic community. (BDR 16‑23)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: No.

 

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

 

AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; authorizing the department of prisons to request money from the contingency fund if the offenders’ store fund has insufficient money to provide for the needs of a therapeutic community; 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. Chapter 209 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a

1-2  new section to read as follows:

1-3    If the director determines that there is an insufficient amount of

1-4  money in the offenders’ store fund to provide for the needs of a

1-5  therapeutic community, he may request an allocation from the

1-6  contingency fund pursuant to NRS 353.266, 353.268 and 353.269.

1-7    Sec. 2.  NRS 209.4231 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-8    209.4231  As used in NRS 209.4231 to 209.4244, inclusive, and

1-9  section 1 of this act, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and

1-10  terms defined in NRS 209.4232 to 209.4235, inclusive, have the meanings

1-11  ascribed to them in those sections.

1-12    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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