Senate Bill No. 288-Senators Adler, McGinness and Jacobsen
April 9, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Finance
SUMMARY--Provides for establishment and operation of additional regional facility for children in certain counties. (BDR S-1337)
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 relating to juveniles; providing an exemption from certain limitations on revenue for the costs to counties for the operation of certain regional facilities for children; making an appropriation for the establishment of a regional facility for children for Carson City and Churchill, Douglas, Lyon and Storey counties; 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 62.327 is hereby amended to read as follows:
62.3271. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 7, each county shall pay an assessment for the operation of each regional facility for children that is partially supported by the state and is operated by a county whose population is less than 400,000.
2. The assessment owed by each county equals the total amount budgeted by the legislature for the operation of the facility, minus any money appropriated by the legislature for the support of the facility, divided by the total number of pupils in the state in the preceding school year, excluding pupils in counties whose population is 400,000 or more, and multiplied by the number of pupils in the assessed county. The administrator of the division shall calculate the assessment owed by each county in June of each year for the ensuing fiscal year.
3. Each county must pay the assessed amount to the division in quarterly installments that are due the first day of the first month of each calendar quarter.
4. The administrator of the division shall deposit the money received pursuant to subsection 3 in a separate account in the state general fund. The money in the account may only be withdrawn by the administrator for the operation of regional facilities for children.
5. As used in this section:
(a) "Division" means the division of child and family services of the department of human resources.
(b) "Regional facility for children" includes:
(1) The institution in Douglas County known as China Spring Youth Camp; [and]
(2) Any other institution established and maintained for the care of minors adjudged delinquent and committed thereto, except the Nevada youth training center and the Caliente youth center [.] ; and
(3) Any other facility established by two or more counties for the temporary care, custody, control and treatment of children under the jurisdiction of a juvenile court who are referred as delinquent or in need of supervision.
6. Revenue raised by a county to pay [the] :
(a) The assessment required pursuant to subsection 1; and
(b) The county's share of the budgeted costs of an additional regional facility for children established by two or more counties pursuant to an interlocal agreement,
is not subject to the limitations on revenue imposed pursuant to chapter 354 of NRS and must not be included in the calculation of those limitations.
7. The provisions of this section do not apply to a county whose population is 400,000 or more.
Sec. 2 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to Lyon County the sum of $1,250,000 for the establishment of a regional facility for children for Carson City and Churchill, Douglas, Lyon and Storey counties.
2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by subsection 1 must not be committed for expenditure after the project is completed 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.