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3 | 3 | | - 82nd Session (2023) |
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4 | 4 | | Senate Bill No. 484–Committee on Finance |
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6 | 6 | | CHAPTER.......... |
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8 | 8 | | AN ACT making appropriations to and authorizing the expenditure |
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9 | 9 | | of money by the Office of the Secretary of State for the costs |
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10 | 10 | | of risk-limiting audits of election results, voter education |
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11 | 11 | | materials and outreach, signature verification services, a mail |
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12 | 12 | | ballot tracking and notification system and a statewide top- |
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13 | 13 | | down voter registration database and election management |
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14 | 14 | | system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
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15 | 15 | | EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. |
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17 | 17 | | THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN |
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18 | 18 | | SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: |
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20 | 20 | | Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the State General |
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21 | 21 | | Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State the sum of $40,000 for |
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22 | 22 | | the costs of the implementation and support of risk-limiting audits |
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23 | 23 | | of election results. |
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24 | 24 | | Sec. 2. There is hereby appropriated from the State General |
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25 | 25 | | Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State the sum of $877,414 for |
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26 | 26 | | the costs of materials for voter education and outreach. |
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27 | 27 | | Sec. 3. There is hereby appropriated from the State General |
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28 | 28 | | Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State the sum of $90,000 for |
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29 | 29 | | the costs of a contract for signature verification services. |
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30 | 30 | | Sec. 4. There is hereby appropriated from the State General |
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31 | 31 | | Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State the sum of $228,000 for |
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32 | 32 | | the costs of the tracking and notification system for mail ballots. |
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33 | 33 | | Sec. 5. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the State |
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34 | 34 | | General Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State the sum of |
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35 | 35 | | $25,000,000 for the HAVA Election Reform budget account for the |
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36 | 36 | | costs of a statewide top-down voter registration database and |
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37 | 37 | | election management system. |
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38 | 38 | | 2. Expenditure of $5,525,802 not appropriated from the State |
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39 | 39 | | General Fund or the State Highway Fund is hereby authorized |
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40 | 40 | | during Fiscal Year 2023-2024 and Fiscal Year 2024-2025 by the |
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41 | 41 | | Office of the Secretary of State for the same purpose set forth in |
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42 | 42 | | subsection 1. |
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43 | 43 | | Sec. 6. Any remaining balance of the appropriations made by |
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44 | 44 | | sections 1 to 5, inclusive, of this act must not be committed for |
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45 | 45 | | expenditure after June 30, 2025, by the entity to which the |
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46 | 46 | | appropriation is made or any entity to which money from the |
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47 | 47 | | appropriation is granted or otherwise transferred in any manner, and |
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48 | 48 | | any portion of the appropriated money remaining must not be spent |
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52 | 52 | | - 82nd Session (2023) |
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53 | 53 | | for any purpose after September 19, 2025, by either the entity to |
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54 | 54 | | which the money was appropriated or the entity to which the money |
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55 | 55 | | was subsequently granted or transferred, and must be reverted to the |
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56 | 56 | | State General Fund on or before September 19, 2025. |
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57 | 57 | | Sec. 7. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval. |
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