Senate Bill No. 499–Committee on Finance

 

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AN ACT making appropriations to the Interim Finance Committee for allocation to state entities for radio system costs, infrastructure upgrades and user equipment; additionally making available for such purposes certain funds in the forfeiture accounts administered by the State Treasurer; 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. 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the State

 Highway Fund the sum of $14,656,066 to the Interim Finance

 Committee for allocation to state entities that receive appropriations

 or authorizations from the State Highway Fund for radio system

 costs, infrastructure upgrades and user equipment.

    2.  There is hereby appropriated from the State General Fund

 the sum of $1,500,000 to the Interim Finance Committee for

 allocation to state entities that receive appropriations or

 authorizations from the State General Fund for radio system costs,

 infrastructure upgrades and user equipment.

    Sec. 2.  In addition to the sum made available for allocation

 pursuant to subsection 2 of section 1 of this act, the Interim Finance

 Committee is hereby authorized, for the purpose of assisting the

 state entities described in that subsection, to expend for allocation

 pursuant to section 3 of this act:

    1.  Three hundred thousand dollars from the forfeiture accounts

 administered by the State Treasurer pursuant to NRS 179.1187; and

    2.  Such additional amounts from the forfeiture accounts

 administered by the State Treasurer pursuant to NRS 178.1187 as

 may be available in those accounts on or before June 30, 2005.

    Sec. 3.  1.  A state entity may submit a request to the State

 Board of Examiners for an allocation by the Interim Finance

 Committee of the money:

    (a) Appropriated by section 1 of this act; and

    (b) If the state entity is a state entity described in subsection 2 of

 section 1 of this act, authorized for expenditure pursuant to section

 2 of this act.

    2.  The State Board of Examiners shall consider the request,

 may require such additional information as they deem appropriate

 and shall, if it finds that an allocation should be made, recommend

 the amount of the allocation to the Interim Finance Committee for

 its independent evaluation and action. The Interim Finance

 Committee is not bound to follow the recommendation of the State

 Board of Examiners.

    3.  If the Interim Finance Committee, after independent

determination, finds that an allocation recommended by the State

 Board of Examiners should and may lawfully be made, the

 Committee shall by resolution establish the amount and purpose of

 the allocation, and direct the State Controller to transfer that

 amount to the appropriate fund and account. The State Controller

 shall thereupon make the transfer.

    4.  With respect to the state entities described in subsection 2 of

 section 1 of this act:

    (a) The State Board of Examiners and the Interim Finance

 Committee shall, in determining whether an allocation should be

 made from the sum appropriated pursuant to that subsection,

 consider whether additional money is available for use from the

 forfeiture accounts administered by the State Treasurer pursuant to

 NRS 179.1187.

    (b) The Interim Finance Committee shall, in granting allocations

 to such state entities, apply the following preference:

        (1) To first pay for such allocations from the proceeds

 available from the forfeiture accounts administered by the State

 Treasurer pursuant to NRS 179.1187; and

        (2) To pay for such allocations secondarily by using the

 proceeds appropriated from the State General Fund as described in

 subsection 2 of section 1 of this act.

    Sec. 4.  The sums appropriated by section 1 of this act are

 available for either fiscal year. Any remaining balance of the sums

 appropriated by section 1 of this act must not be allocated by the

 Interim Finance Committee after June 30, 2005, and reverts to the

 State Highway Fund and to the State General Fund, respectively, as

 soon as all payments of money committed have been made.

    Sec. 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.

 

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