- 82nd Session (2023) Senate Bill No. 99–Senator Goicoechea 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 2023-2024 .................................. $600,000 For the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 .................................. $600,000 2. The Desert Research Institute shall: (a) Prepare and transmit a report to the Interim Finance Committee on or before September 1, 2024, 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, 2024; and (b) Prepare and transmit a report to the Interim Finance Committee on or before September 1, 2025, 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, 2025. Sec. 2. Any balance of the sums appropriated by section 1 of this act 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 20, 2024, and September 19, 2025, 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 20, 2024, and September 19, 2025, respectively. – 2 – - 82nd Session (2023) Sec. 3. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2023. 20 ~~~~~ 23