NevadaNevada law funds college planning and facility upgrades
Nevada's law provides project funds to public colleges and the Desert Research Institute for campus planning, safety work, and facility repairs.
What it does
The law provides $6.2 million each to UNLV and UNR for planning and designing new school buildings; UNLV's funding also covers campus safety upgrades.
The law provides funds for facility work at four colleges and the Desert Research Institute, including observatory improvements, campus upgrades, and fire sprinklers.
Argument forUNLV and UNR could plan new school buildings, and UNLV could improve campus safety, which may help address facility needs.
Argument againstInstitutions could lose access to unspent project money after the deadlines, which may make it harder to finish work that runs late.
More detail
The law provides $6.2 million to UNLV for planning and designing a Lee Business School building and campus safety upgrades, and $6.2 million to UNR to plan and design a life sciences building. The funds go to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Nevada, Reno. The law takes effect July 1, 2025. Any unspent balance must not be committed after June 30, 2027, spent after September 17, 2027, or kept past that date; it must be returned to the State General Fund by then.
The law provides funds for facility work at Western Nevada College, the College of Southern Nevada, Truckee Meadows Community College, Great Basin College, and the Desert Research Institute. The projects include observatory improvements; campus facility and building work; heating and cooling equipment replacement; parking lot and walkway repairs; and fire sprinklers. The law takes effect July 1, 2025. Any unspent balance must not be committed after June 30, 2029, spent after September 21, 2029, or kept past that date; it must be returned to the State General Fund by then.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 11Chapter 504.Latest
- Jun 10Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- Jun 6Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 4To enrollment.Major
- Jun 2From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Declared an emergency measure under the Constitution. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 969.) Dispensed with reprinting. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To printer. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint. To Senate. In Senate. Assembly Amendments No. 969 concurred in.Passed House
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 31Taken from Secretary's desk. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 940.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 19, Nays: None, Excused: 2.) To printer. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- May 30From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on Secretary's desk.
- May 29From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 875.) To printer.Minor
- Apr 10Notice of exemption.
- Mar 26From printer. To committee.
- Mar 24Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To printer.Introduced
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