AB 68 — Revises provisions governing the assessment imposed on certain counties for the operation of a regional facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of children. (BDR 5-438)

A.B.Assembly Bill No.

6868–Committee Aon SSEMBLYJudiciary BILLCHAPTER.......... NO .

68–COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY (O N BEHALF OF DOUGLAS C OUNTY ) PREFILED N OVEMBER 16, 2022 ____________ Referred to Committee on Judiciary SUMMARY—Revises provisions governing the assessment imposed on certain counties for the operation of a regional facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of children.

(BDR 5-438) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

May have Fiscal Impact.

Effect on the State:

No.

~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

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

Existing law authorizes a juvenile court to commit a child to the custody of a regional facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of children and requires each county whose population is less than 700,000 (currently all counties other than each Clark County) to pay an assessment for the operation of certain such facilities to the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services.owed by each county subject to this requirement.

ExistingUnder lawexisting alsolaw, establishesthee assessment assessment owed by each assessed county equals the total amount of money budgeted by the Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, minus any money appropriated by the Legislature for the support of the regional facility, divided by the total number of pupils enrolled in public schools in this State in the preceding school year, excluding pupils enrolled in public schools in an unassessed county, and multiplied by the number of pupils enrolled in public schools in the asseThis bill revises this formula usedby toproviding calculatethat, after any amount of money appropriated by the Legislature for the support of the regional facility has been subtracted from the amount of money budgeted by the Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, the assessment owed by each assessed county subjectequals tothe thissum requirement.of:

Under(1) existingfifty law,percent theof assessment owed by each assessed county equals the totalremaining amount of money moneybudgeted appropriated by the Legislature for the supportoperation of the regional facility,nyfacility, divided by the total number of pupils enrolled in public schools in this State in the preceding school year, excluding pupils enrolled in public schools in an unassessed county, and multiplied fifty percent of the remaining amount of money budgeted by the Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, divided by the total number of pupilsbed enrolleddays inat publicthe schoolsfacility infor the 2 immediately preceding fiscal years, and multiplied by the number of bed days used by the assessed county.

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(1)EXPLANATION fifty percent of the remaining amount of money budgeted by the - *AB68* – 2Matter – Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, divided by the total number of pupils enrolled in publicbolded schoolsitalics inis thisnew; State in the preceding school year, by the number of pupils enrolled in public schools in the assessed county;

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day” to mean a day for which a THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Except as otherwise provided in subsection [6,] 8, each county shall pay an assessment for the operation of each - 82nd Session (2023) – 2 – regional facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of children that is partially supported by the State of Nevada and is operated by a county whose population is less than 700,000.

The [assessment owed] total aggregated amount of assessments required to be paid by [each county] all counties subject to the requirements of subsection 1 equals the total amount budgeted by the Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, minus any money appropriated by the Legislature for the support of the regional facility .

Each county must pay the assessed amount to the Division of Child and Family Services in quarterly installments that areare[4.] due6. the first day of the first month of each calendar quarter.

-The *AB68*Administrator –of 3the –Division [4.]of 6.Child and Familyr.

The Administrator of the Division of Child and Family Services shall deposit the money received pursuant to subsection [3] 5 in a separate account in the State General Fund.

The provisions of this section do not apply to a county who[7.]whose 9.laAspopulation usedis in700,000 thisor sectionmore. [, “regional] :

[7.] 9.

As used in this section [, “regional] :

(b)- “Regional82nd facilitySession for(2023) the– treatment3 and– rehabilitation of children” or “regional facility” does not include the facility in Lyon County known as Western Nevada Regional Youth Center.

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