Assembly Bill No. 435

Assembly Bill No. 435-Committee on Ways and Means

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AN ACT making an appropriation for a risk assessment and workload study of the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

[Approved June 30, 1997]

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety the sum of $94,994 for:
1. A workload study of the Division of Parole and Probation; and
2. A study to validate the method of classifying the risk assessment of offenders, to examine whether additional supervision for offenders classified as high- or low-risk offenders reduces their criminal activity, and of the use and effectiveness of classification overrides in the system of classification.
Sec. 2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by section 1 of this act 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.
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