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Makes an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program. (BDR S-389)

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT making an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Senate Committee on Natural Resources
Last action
Official status
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 434. (See full list below)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Makes an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program. (BDR S-389)

Makes an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program.

What This Bill Does

  • Makes an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program.
  • (BDR S-389)

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2024-10-16 Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System

    Approved by the Governor. Chapter 434. (See full list below)

Official Summary Text

Makes an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program. (BDR S-389)

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text
- 83rd Session (2025)
Senate Bill No. 6–Committee on Natural Resources

CHAPTER..........

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute
of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the
Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program; and providing other
matters properly relating thereto.
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. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the State
General Fund to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System
of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding
Program administered by the Desert Research Institute the following
sums:
For the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 .................................. $600,000
For the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 .................................. $600,000
2. The Desert Research Institute shall:
(a) Prepare and transmit a report to the Interim Finance
Committee on or before September 1, 2026, that d escribes each
expenditure made from the money appropriated by subsection 1
from the date on which the money was received by the Desert
Research Institute through June 30, 2026; and
(b) Prepare and transmit a report to the Interim Finance
Committee on or b efore September 1, 2027, that describes each
expenditure made from the money appropriated by subsection 1
from the date on which the money was received by the Desert
Research Institute through June 30, 2027.
Sec. 2. Any bal ance of the sums appropriated by section 1
remaining at the end of the respective fiscal years must not be
committed for expenditure after June 30 of the respective fiscal
years by the entity to which the appropriation is made or any
entity to which money from the appropriation is granted or
otherwise transferred in any manner, and any portion of the
appropriated money remaining must not be spent for any purpose
after September 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027, respectively, by
either the entity to which the money was appropriated or the entity
to which the money was subsequently granted or transferred,
and must be reverted to the State General Fund on or before
September 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027, respectively.

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- 83rd Session (2025)
Sec. 3. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2025.

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