Senate Bill No. 480–Committee on Finance

 

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AN ACT relating to state financial administration; extending the date for submittal of biennial budgets proposed by state agencies; 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 353.210 is hereby amended to read as follows:

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

 before [August 15] September 1 of each even-numbered year, all

 departments, institutions and other agencies of the executive department of

 the state government, and all agencies of the executive department of the

 state government receiving state money, fees or other money under the

 authority of the state, including those operating on money designated for

 specific purposes by the constitution or otherwise, shall prepare, on blanks

 furnished them by the chief, and submit to the chief estimates of their

 expenditure requirements, together with all anticipated income from fees

 and all other sources, for the next 2 fiscal years compared with the

 corresponding figures of the last completed fiscal year and the estimated

 figures for the current fiscal year.

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

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

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

 legislative counsel bureau on or before [August 15] September 1 of each

 even-numbered year.

   3.  The budget division of the department of administration shall give

 advance notice to the fiscal analysis division of the legislative counsel

 bureau of any conference between the budget division of the department of

 administration and personnel of other state agencies regarding budget

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

 designated representative may attend any such conference.

   4.  The estimates of expenditure requirements submitted pursuant to

 subsection 1 must be classified to set forth the data of funds,

 organizational units, and the character and objects of expenditures, and

 must include a mission statement and measurement indicators for each

 program. The organizational units may be subclassified by functions and

 activities, or in any other manner at the discretion of the chief.

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

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

 state money or from other money collected under the authority of the state,

 fails or neglects to submit estimates of its expenditure requirements as

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

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

 budget for the department, institution or agency in accordance with the

 data.

 

 

 

   6.  Agencies, bureaus, commissions and officers of the legislative

department, the public employees’ retirement system and the judicial

 department of the state government shall submit to the chief for his

 information in preparing the proposed executive budget the budgets which

 they propose to submit to the legislature.

 

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