SB478 - Makes appropriations and requires the issuance of bonds for costs associated with the Judicial Department of State Government. (BDR S-1187)

- 83rd Session (2025) Senate Bill No. 478–Committee on Finance CHAPTER.......... AN ACT making appropriations and requiring the issuance of certain bonds for costs associated with the Judicial Department of State Government; 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 Supreme Court of Nevada the sum of $814,720 for the Administrative Office of the Courts budget account for the costs of upgrading the multicounty integrated justice information system. 2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by subsection 1 must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2027, 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 17, 2027, 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 17, 2027. Sec. 2. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the State General Fund to the Supreme Court of Nevada the sum of $1,413,605 for the Administrative Office of the Courts budget account for the replacement of audiovisual equipment. 2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by subsection 1 must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2027, 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 17, 2027, 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 17, 2027. Sec. 3. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the State General Fund to the Supreme Court of Nevada for the Administrative Office of the Courts budget account for the – 2 – - 83rd Session (2025) replacement of computer and other technological equipment the following sums: For the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 .................................. $294,400 For the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 .................................. $107,040 2. Any balance of the sums appropriated by subsection 1 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 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027, 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 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027, respectively. Sec. 3.5. 1. The State Board of Finance shall issue general obligation bonds of the State of Nevada in the face amount of not more than $9,000,000 in the 2025-2027 biennium, the proceeds of which must be used to acquire the real property described in subsection 3. 2. The State Land Registrar, on behalf of the Department of Administration, may negotiate, enter into and execute an agreement with the owner for the purchase and sale of the real property described in subsection 3. 3. The real property, with its improvements, that the State Land Registrar is authorized to acquire pursuant to subsection 2 is commonly known as the Nevada Supreme Court Building, located at 408 East Clark Avenue in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is Clark County Assessor’s Parcel Number 139-34-303-002 and which is described by the Clark County Assessor, which description may be further refined through due diligence, as follows: Lots One (1) through Seven (7), inclusive, in Block Thirty-Nine (39) of Clark’s Las Vegas Townsite, as shown by the Map thereof on file in Book 1 Plats, page 37m in the Office of the County Recorder of Clark County, Nevada, being a portion of the North Hald (N 1/2) of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4) of Section 34, Township 20 South, Range 61 East, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the centerline intersection of Clark Avenue (80 feet wide) and Fourth Street (80 feet wide); thence South 62'15'00" East along the centerline of Clark – 3 – - 83rd Session (2025) Avenue, 40.00 feet; thence South 27'45'00" West, departing said centerline, 40.00 feet to the intersection of the Easterly and Southerly Right of Way lines of Fourth Street and Clark Avenue, said point also being the Point of Beginning; thence South 62'15'00" East along the Southerly Right of Way line of Clark Avenue, 140.00 feet; thence South 27'45'00" West departing said Southerly Right of Way, 175.00 feet; thence North 62'15'00" West, 140.00 feet to point on the Easterly Right of Way line of Fourth Street; thence North 27'45'00" East along said Easterly Right of Way line, 170.00 feet to the Point of Beginning. Excepting therefrom that certain spandrel area dedicated to the City of Las Vegas by document, Book 991206, Instrument 00228 dated December 6, 1999, Clark. Sec. 4. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2025. 20 ~~~~~ 25