AB 527 — Revises provisions relating to state financial administration. (BDR 31-1199)

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527–COMMITTEE ON W AYS AND M EANS M AY 31, 2023 ____________ Referred to Committee on Ways and Means SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to state financial administration.

(BDR 31-1199) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

No.

Effect on the State:

No.

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matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

LegExistingLegislative lawCounsel’s requiresDigest: the Chief of the Budget Division of the Office of Finance in the Office of the Governor to prepare a proposed budget for the Executive Department of the State Government.

(NRS 353.185) Existing law requires the Judicial and Legislative Departments of the State Government, the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to submit to the Chief of the Budget Division for his or her information a copy of the budgetsOffice the proposed budget for each fiscal year of aFinance bienniumin isthe requiredOffice to include aw, reserve of not less than 5 percent or more than 10 percent of the totalGovernor ofto allprepare a proposed appropriationsbudget from the State General Fund for the operationExecutive Department of the State GovernmentGovernment. and authorized expenditures from the State General Fund for the regulation of gaming for that fiscal year.

(NRS 353.213)353.185) ThisExisting billlaw requires the ChiefJudicial ofand theLegislative BudgetDepartments Divisionof to include the totalState amountGovernment, ofthe appropriationsPublic includedto in the Government,Chief of the PublicBudget Employees’Division Retirementfor Systemhis andor theher Tahoeinformation Regionala Planningcopy Agencyof in the calculationbudgets ofthat thethey reservepropose into thesubmit proposedto budget.the Legislature.

(NRS 353.210) Under existing law, the proposed budget for each fiscal year of a biennium is required to include a reserve of not less than 5 percent or more than 10 percent of the total of all proposed appropriations from the State General Fund for the operation of the State regulation of gaming for that fiscal year.

(NRS 353.213) This bill requires the Chief of the Budget Division to include the total amount of appropriations included in the budgets submitted by the Judicial and Legislative Departments of the State Government, the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency in the calculation of the reserve in the proposed budget.

EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

Except as otherwise provided in subsections 6 and 7, on or before September 1 of each even-numbered year, all - *AB527_R1* – 2 – departments, institutions and other agencies of the Executive Department of the State Government, and all agencies of the Executive Department of the State Government receiving state money, fees or other money under the authority of the State, including those operating on money designated for specific purposes by the Nevada Constitution or otherwise, shall prepare, on blanks furnished them by the Chief, and submit to the Chief:

(b) The number of full-time equivalent positions within the department, institution or agency that have been vacant for at least 12 months, the number of months each such position has been vacant and the reasons for each such vacancy.

(c)- Any82nd existingSession contracts(2023) for– services2 the– department, institution or agency has with temporary employment services or other persons, the proposed expenditures for such contracts in the next 2 fiscal years and the reasons for the use of such services.

and (II) For the preceding and current fiscal years, the number of persons the department, institution or agency employed pursuant to the privatization contracts, reflected as the equivalent full-time position if the persons were regularly employed by the department, institution or agency, including the equivalent hourly wage and the cost of benefits for each job classification.

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The Chief shall direct that one copy of the forms submitted pursuant to subsection 1, accompanied by every supporting schedule and any other related material, be delivered directly to the Fiscal Analysis Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau on or beforebeforecal September 1 of each even-numbered year.

4.- 82nd Session (2023) – 3 – pursuant to subsection 1 must be classified to set forth the data of funds, organizational units, and the character and objects of expenditures by program or budgetary account and by category of expense, and must include a mission statement and measurement indicators in adequate detail to comply with the requirements of subparagraph (3) of paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 353.205.

The estimates of expenditure requirements submitted pursuant to subsection 1 must be classified to set forth the data of funds, organizational units, and the character and objects of expenditures by program or budgetary account and by category of expense, and must include a mission statement and measurement indicators in adequate detail to comply with the requirements of subparagraph (3) of paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 353.205.

If any department, institution or other agency of the Executive Department of the State Government, whether its money is derived from state money or from other money collected under the authority of the State, fails or neglects to submit estimates of its expenditure requirements as provided in this section, the Chief may, from any data at hand in the Chief’s office or which the Chief may examine or obtain elsewhere, make and enter a proposed budget for thethe6.epAgencies, department,bureaus, institutioncommissions orand agencyofficers inof accordancethethe with the data.

6.Legislative Department, the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the Judicial Department of the State Government shall submit to the Chief for his or her information in preparing the proposed executive budget the budgets which they propose to submit to the Legislature.

Agencies, bureaus, commissions and officers of the Legislative Department, the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the Judicial Department of the State Government shall submit to the Chief for his or her information in preparing the proposed executive budget the budgets which they propose to submit to the Legislature.

The Chief shall include the total amount of appropriations included in the budget submitted - *AB527_R1* – 4 – pursuant to this subsection in the calculation of the reserve required pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 353.213.

the reserve (b) The Fiscal Analysis Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.

agency8. pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 1 is a public record and must be open to public inspection.

The information provided by a department, institution or agency pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 1 is a public record and must be open to public inspection.

As used in this section, “privatization contract” means a contract executed by or on behalf of a department, institution or - 82nd Session (2023) – 4 – agency which authorizes a private entity to provide public services which are:

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