(On Behalf of the Division of Mental Hygiene and Mental
Retardation of the Department of Human Resources)
April 29, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Judiciary
SUMMARY--Requires administrator of mental hygiene and mental retardation division of department of human resources to establish compensation of members of sanity commission. (BDR 14-483)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to sanity commissions; transferring the duty to establish the compensation of the members of such a commission from the judge impaneling the commission to the administrator of the mental hygiene and mental retardation division of the department of human resources; 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 178.465 is hereby amended to read as follows:
178.465 The members of the sanity commission are entitled to receive reasonable compensation for conducting evaluations and preparing reports which must be fixed by the [judge impaneling the commission.] administrator of the mental hygiene and mental retardation division of the department of human resources. The compensation is a charge against and must be paid by the mental hygiene and mental retardation division upon an order therefor signed by the judge impaneling the commission and submitted to the administrator of the division. The administrator shall submit a claim for payment of the order in the manner provided by law. After the appropriation for this purpose is exhausted, money must be allocated to the mental hygiene and mental retardation division out of the reserve for statutory contingency account upon approval by the state board of examiners, for payment of the compensation.