Nevada : 2025 Regular Session : BILL SB6
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)
Sponsor: Sen Natural Resources
Bill Details
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.
Bill summary (AI generated)
This bill, known as Senate Bill No. 6, is an appropriation act aimed at funding the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program. It allocates a total of $1,200,000 over two fiscal years: $600,000 for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 and $600,000 for Fiscal Year 2026-2027. The funds will be appropriated from the State General Fund to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education. The Desert Research Institute is required to prepare and submit reports to the Interim Finance Committee by September 1, 2026, and September 1, 2027. These reports must detail each expenditure made from the appropriated funds from the date they are received until June 30 of the respective fiscal year. Furthermore, the bill stipulates that any unspent balance of the appropriated funds at the end of each fiscal year shall not be committed for expenditure after June 30 of that fiscal year. Remaining funds must revert to the State General Fund by specific deadlines: September 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027. The act will become effective on July 1, 2025.
History
The bill SB6, titled "Makes an appropriation to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program," was prefiled in October 2024 and has successfully passed through various legislative stages. It was read multiple times in both the Senate and Assembly, has gained approval from the Governor on June 9, 2025, and is set to take effect on July 1, 2025. Since the bill has passed all legislative hurdles and received the Governor's approval, it is now officially law. As such, it will be implemented as intended, allocating funds to support the cloud seeding program beginning on the effective date. There are no further legislative steps required at this point.
- Wed 16 Oct 2024 Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To printer.
- Wed 23 Oct 2024 From printer.
- Mon 03 Feb 2025 Read first time. To committee.
- Mon 10 Mar 2025 Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- Thu 03 Apr 2025 From committee: Do pass.
- Mon 07 Apr 2025 Read second time.
- Mon 07 Apr 2025 Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To committee.
- Tue 27 May 2025 From committee: Do pass.
- Tue 27 May 2025 Placed on General File.
- Tue 27 May 2025 Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
- Tue 27 May 2025 In Assembly.
- Tue 27 May 2025 Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.
- Sun 01 Jun 2025 From committee: Do pass.
- Sun 01 Jun 2025 Placed on Second Reading File.
- Sun 01 Jun 2025 Read second time.
- Mon 02 Jun 2025 Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 39, Nays: 3.) To Senate.
- Tue 03 Jun 2025 In Senate.
- Wed 04 Jun 2025 To enrollment.
- Thu 05 Jun 2025 Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- Mon 09 Jun 2025 Approved by the Governor. Chapter 434. (Effective July 1, 2025)