SUMMARY--Makes appropriation to Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Rehabilitation Division of Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation for support of certain programs of treatment for criminal offenders who abuse alcohol or drugs. (BDR S-278)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Contains Appropriation not included in Executive Budget.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT making an appropriation to the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Rehabilitation Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation for the support of certain programs of treatment for criminal offenders who abuse alcohol or drugs; 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 general fund to the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Rehabilitation Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the sum of $90,000. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Chief of the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Abuse shall, on or before January 10, 1998, distribute that sum equally to the court administrator of each district court in this state which, on January 1, 1998, has an existing program of treatment for the abuse of alcohol or drugs pursuant to NRS 453.580. Any money so distributed must be used by the court administrators to pay the initial costs of creating that program of treatment or to pay other ongoing operational expenses of the program.
2. The Chief of the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Abuse shall not distribute any money appropriated pursuant to subsection 1 to a district court that established a program of treatment pursuant to NRS 453.580 before January 1, 1996, if an additional and separate appropriation from the state general fund is made to fund that program of treatment during the 69th session of the Nevada Legislature.
Sec. 2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by section 1 of this act that is not distributed pursuant to the requirements set forth in that section must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 1999, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.
Sec. 3. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval or on June 30, 1997, whichever occurs earlier.