SUMMARY--Extends period of authorized expenditure and revises prospective date of reversion of appropriations 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 money; establishing certain requirements for the administration of those examinations; 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. Section 1 of chapter 477, Statutes of Nevada 1995, at page 1529, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the department of education the sum of $511,677 to develop and carry out a new high school proficiency examination . [:
For the fiscal year 1995-96 $295,606
For the fiscal year 1996-97 $216,071]
Sec. 3. Section 2 of chapter 477, Statutes of Nevada 1995, at page 1529, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2. [The sums appropriated] Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by section 1 of this act [are available for either fiscal year. Any balance of those sums] 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. 4. 1. The high school proficiency examination developed with the money appropriated pursuant to section 1 of chapter 477, Statutes of Nevada 1995, at page 1529, must be administered to all pupils enrolled in grade 11 during the school year that begins in 1997.
2. The score required to pass that examination must be:
(a) Set at a moderate level for pupils to whom the examination is administered during the school year that begins in 1997; and
(b) Increased to a higher level for pupils to whom the examination is administered during subsequent school years, except that the score required to pass the examination must not be increased for pupils who failed to pass the examination administered during the school year that begins in 1997 and to whom the examination is again administered during a subsequent school year.
Sec. 5. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval or on June 29, 1997, whichever occurs earlier.