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- 83rd Session (2025)
Senate Bill No. 108–Senator Titus
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AN ACT relating to water; revising provisions governing the
Account for the Channel Clearance, Maintenance,
Restoration, Surveying and Monumenting Program; and
providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law: (1) creates the Account for the Channel Clearance, Maintenance,
Restoration, Surveying and Monumenting Program in the Stat e General Fund; and
(2) requires that the money in this Account be used to award grants under the
Program to cities, counties and other political subdivisions of this State and tribal
governments in this State as equivalent matching money for projects for the
clearance, maintenance, restoration, surveying and monumenting of navigable
rivers. Under existing law, the State Engineer is required to administer the Account
and the Program. (NRS 532.220, 532.230) Existing law also creates the
Contingency Account i n the State General Fund and prescribes a procedure for
allocation of money in that Account by the Interim Finance Committee, upon the
recommendation of the State Board of Examiners, for prescribed purposes,
including as provided in specific statute. (NRS 353.266, 353.268, 353.269) Under
existing law, the State Engineer is required to request an allocation from the
Contingency Account if the balance in the Account for the Channel Clearance,
Maintenance, Restoration, Surveying and Monumenting Program is not sufficient
to provide a grant under the Program. In addition, the State Engineer is authorized
to request an allocation from the Contingency Account if the balance in the
Account for the Channel Clearance, Maintenance, Restoration, Surveying and
Monumenting Program is below $250,000. (NRS 532.230) This bill: (1) increases
this balance for triggering discretionary requests from the Contingency Account to
$500,000; and (2) provides that only money in the Account for the Channel
Clearance, Maintenance, Restoration, Surveying and Monumenting Program that is
not committed for expenditure is included in the calculation of that balance.
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. NRS 532.230 is hereby amended to read as follows:
532.230 1. The Account for the Channel Clearance,
Maintenance, Restoration, Surveying and Monumenting Program is
hereby created in the State General Fund.
2. The money in the Account must be administered by the State
Engineer and must be expended only to aid local governments or
tribal governments in the manner provided in NRS 532.220.
3. If the balance in the Account that is not committed for
expenditure is below [$250,000,] $500,000, the State Engineer may
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request an allocation from the Contingency Account pursuant to
NRS 353.266, 353.268 and 353.269.
4. If the balance in the Account is not sufficient to provide a
grant of money to an incorporated city, a county, a political
subdivision of this S tate or a tribal government in this State , the
State Engineer shall request an allocation from the Contingency
Account pursuant to NRS 353.266, 353.268 and 353.269.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2025.
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