Existing law authorizes a juvenile court to commit a child to the custody of a regional facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of children and requires each county whose population is less than 700,000 (currently all counties other than Clark County) to pay an assessment for the operation of certain such facilities to the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services. Existing law also establishes the formula used to calculate the assessment owed by each county subject to this requirement. Under existing law, the assessment owed by each assessed county equals the total amount of money budgeted by the Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, minus any money appropriated by the Legislature for the support of the regional facility, divided by the total number of pupils enrolled in public schools in this State in the preceding school year, excluding pupils enrolled in public schools in an unassessed county, and multiplied by the number of pupils enrolled in public schools in the assessed county. (NRS 62B.150) This bill revises this formula by providing that, after any amount of money appropriated by the Legislature for the support of the regional facility has been subtracted from the amount of money budgeted by the Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, the assessment owed by each assessed county equals the sum of: (1) fifty percent of the remaining amount of money budgeted by the Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, divided by the total number of pupils enrolled in public schools in this State in the preceding school year, excluding pupils enrolled in public schools in an unassessed county, and multiplied by the number of pupils enrolled in public schools in the assessed county; and (2) fifty percent of the remaining amount of money budgeted by the Legislature for the operation of the regional facility, divided by the total number of bed days at the facility for the 2 immediately preceding fiscal years, and multiplied by the number of bed days used by the assessed county. For the purposes of calculating the assessment owed, this bill defines the term “bed day” to mean a day for which a specific bed at a regional facility is occupied.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 62B.150
As Enrolled: 62B.150
BDR: 62B.150