SUMMARY--Extends period of authorized expenditure and revises prospective date of reversion of appropriation made during previous legislative session to pay costs relating to standard examinations of achievement and proficiency of pupils. (BDR S-370)
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 education; extending the period during which the department of education may expend certain money appropriated during the previous legislative session to pay for costs relating to standard examinations of achievement and proficiency of pupils; revising the date of the prospective reversion of that appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1 Section 6 of chapter 525, Statutes of Nevada 1995, at page 1745, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 6. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the department of education the sum of $670,030 to pay for costs incurred by the department during the fiscal years [1995-97] 1995-99 relating to the standard examinations of achievement and proficiency of pupils administered pursuant to NRS 389.015.
2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by subsection 1 must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, [1997,] 1999, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.
Sec. 2 This act becomes effective upon passage and approval or on June 29, 1997, whichever occurs earlier.