NevadaNevada funds cloud seeding for two fiscal years
The Desert Research Institute receives $600,000 in each of two fiscal years to support Nevada’s State Cloud Seeding Program.
What it does
The Desert Research Institute receives $600,000 for Nevada’s State Cloud Seeding Program in each of fiscal years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027.
The Institute must report each expenditure to the Interim Finance Committee. Any money left over must go back to the State General Fund by the specified dates.
Argument forThe funding may help the Institute support cloud seeding, and required spending reports could help lawmakers track how the money is used.
Argument againstThe spending deadlines could leave the Institute with too little time to use the full funding if program work is delayed.
More detail
The law provides $600,000 for each of two fiscal years to support the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program. The money comes from the State General Fund and goes to the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education for the program it administers. The appropriations cover fiscal years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027. The law took effect July 1, 2025.
The Institute must report spending and return any unspent money by set deadlines. These requirements apply to the Institute and any entity that receives or is transferred money from the appropriations. Each report must describe every expenditure of the appropriated money. Reports are due by September 1, 2026, for spending through June 30, 2026, and by September 1, 2027, for spending through June 30, 2027. Leftover money cannot be committed after June 30 of each fiscal year or spent after September 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027, respectively; it must be returned by those dates.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2025
- Jun 9Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo. Chapter 434.Became Law
- Jun 5Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 4To enrollment.Major
- Jun 3In Senate.
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 39, Nays: 3.) To Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded Assembly (As Introduced). Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 1From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 27From committee: Do pass. Placed on General File. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (As Introduced). Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 7Read second time. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To committee.Minor
- Apr 3From committee: Do pass.Minor
- Mar 10Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- Feb 3Read first time. To committee.Minor
- 2024
- Oct 23From printer.
- Oct 16Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To printer.Introduced
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