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AssemblySession Bill(82nd) A AB527 993 Amendment No.
527–Committee993 onSenate WaysAmendment andto MeansAssembly CHAPTER..........Bill No.
527 (BDR 31-1199) Proposed by:
Senator Dondero Loop Amends:
Summary:
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Yes Preamble:
No Joint Sponsorship:
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Yes ASSEMBLY ACTION Initial and Dat| SENATE ACTION Initial and Date Adopted Lost | Adopted Lost Concurred In Not | Concurred In Not Receded Not | Receded Not EXPLANATION:
Matter in (1) blue bold italics is new language in the original bill;
(2) variations of green bold underlining is language proposed to be added in this amendment;
(3) red strikethrough is deleted language in the original bill;
(4) purple double strikethrough is language proposed to be deleted in this amendment;
(5) orange double underlining is deleted language in the original bill proposed to be retained in this amendment.
EGO - Date:
6/5/2023 A.B.
No.
527—Revises provisions relating to state financial administration.
(BDR 31-1199) Page 1 of 7 *A_AB527_993* Senate Amendment No.
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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.
~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
[revising provisions relating to revisions of work programs in the state budget;] and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
(NRS 353.185) Existing law requires the Judicial and Legislative Departments of the State Government, the Public toEmployees’ theRetirement ChiefSystem ofand the Budget Division for his or her information a copy of the budgets that they propose to submit to the Legislature.
(NRS(NRSr her 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 Government and authorized expenditures from the State General Fund for the regulation of gaming for that fiscal year.
(NRS 353.213) [Section 1 of this] 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[Under –the MatterState inBudget boldedAct, italicsthe head of a department, institution or other agency of the Executive Department of the State Government, with certain exceptions, is new;authorized, as a result of changed conditions, to request a revision to a work program within its budget.
matterSuch betweena bracketsrevision [omitted material] is materialrequired to be omitted.approved or disapproved by the Governor or the Chief of the Budget Division.
THEIn PEOPLEaddition, OFthe THEdepartment, STATEinstitution OFor NEVADA,agency REPRESENTEDis INrequired SENATEto ANDobtain ASSEMBLY,the DOapproval ENACTof ASthe FOLLOWS:Interim Finance Committee, or the Governor in certain emergency or expeditious will increase or decrease by 10 percent or $75,000, whichever is less, the expenditure level approved by the Legislature for any of the allotments within the work program.
(NRS 353.220) Section 2 of this bill eliminates the initial monetary threshold of $30,000 for the additional required approval of a work program and increases the dollar amount of the other threshold in existing law to $100,000.
Thus, under section 2, an agency must obtain additional approval of its work program from the Interim Finance Committee, or the Governor in certain emergency or expeditious circumstances, if the revision will increase or decrease by 10 Senate Amendment No.
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527 Page 4 any of the allotments within the work program.penditure level approved by the Legislature for Under existing law, if the Governor approves a work program that meets the monetary threshold level in the case of an emergency or for the protection of life or property, the Governor is required to report his or her approval of the work program to the Interim Finance Committee at its next meeting.
(NRS 353.220) Section 2 eliminates this reporting requirement and instead requires the Governor to notify the Chair of the Interim Finance Committee before approving the work program.
Under existing law, the Interim Finance Committee is required to consider a request for approved.
(NRS 353.220) Section 2 eliminates that requirement and instead requires, with an exception, the placement of the request on the agenda of the next meeting of the Interim Finance Committee.] THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
(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) 82ndAny Sessionexisting (2023)contracts –for 2services –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.
(e)Senate EstimatesAmendment ofNo. expenditure requirements of the department, institution or agency, together with all anticipated income from fees and all other sources, for the next 2 fiscal years compared with the corresponding figures of the last completed fiscal year and the estimated figures for the current fiscal year.
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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 beforecalbefore 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 the6.epAgencies,the bureaus,department, commissionsinstitution andor officersagency ofin thetheaccordance with the data.
Legislative6. 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 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.
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:
Sec.Senate Amendment No.
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(Deleted[NRS by353.220 amendment.)is Sec.hereby amended to read as follows:
353.220 1.
The head of any department, institution or agency of the Executive Department of the State Government, whenever he or she deems it necessary because of changed conditions, may request the revision of the work program of his or her department, institution or agency at any time during the fiscal year, and submit the revised program to the Governor through the Chief with a request for revision of the allotments for the remainder of that fiscal year.
2.
Every request for revision must be submitted to the Chief on the form and with supporting information as the Chief prescribes.
Before encumbering any appropriated or authorized money, every request for revision must be approved or disapproved in writing by the Governor or the Chief, if the Governor has by written instrument delegated this authority to the Chief.
4.
Except as otherwise provided in subsection 8, whenever a request for the revision of a work program of a department, institution or agency [in an amount more than $30,000] would, when considered with all other changes in allotments for that work program made pursuant to subsections 1, 2 and 3 and NRS 353.215, increase or decrease by 10 percent or [$75,000,] $100,000, whichever is less, the expenditure level approved by the Legislature for any of the allotments within the work program, the request must be approved as provided in subsection 5 before any appropriated or authorized money may be encumbered for the revision.
5.
If a request for the revision of a work program requires additional approval as provided in subsection 4 and:
(a) Is necessary because of an emergency as defined in NRS 353.263 or for the protection of life or property, the Governor shall take reasonable and proper action to approve it [and shall report the action, and] after notifying the Chair of Interim Finance Committee of his or her reasons for determining that immediate action [was] is necessary .
[, to the Interim Finance Committee at its first meeting after the action is taken.] Action by the Governor pursuant to this paragraph constitutes approval of the revision, and other provisions of this chapter requiring approval before encumbering money for the revision do not apply.
(b) The Governor determines that the revision is necessary and requires expeditious action, he or she may certify that the request requires expeditious action by the Interim Finance Committee.
Whenever the Governor so certifies, the Interim Finance Committee has 15 days after the request is submitted to its Secretary within which to consider the revision.
Any request for revision which is not considered within the 15-day period shall be deemed approved.
(c) Does not qualify pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b), it must be submitted to the Interim Finance Committee.
[The Interim Finance Committee has 45 days after the request is submitted to its Secretary within which to consider the revision.
Any request which is not considered within the 45-day period shall be deemed approved.] 6.
[The] Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the Secretary shall place each request submitted pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection 5 on the agenda of the [next] first meeting of the Interim Finance Committee [.] after the submission of the request.
If a request is submitted pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 5 within 30 days before the first meeting of the Interim Finance Committee after the submission of the request, the Secretary shall place the request on the agenda of the second meeting of the Interim Finance Committee after the submission of the request.
7.
In acting upon a proposed revision of a work program, the Interim Finance Committee shall consider, among other things:
(a) The need for the proposed revision;
and Senate Amendment No.
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8.
The provisions of subsection 4 do not apply to any request for the revision of a work program which is required:
(a) As a result of the acceptance of a gift or grant of property or services pursuant to subsection 5 of NRS 353.335;
or (b) To carry forward to a fiscal year, without a change in purpose, the unexpended balance of any money authorized for expenditure in the immediately preceding fiscal year.] (Deleted by amendment.) Sec.
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