231.068 - Powers and duties: Grants for programs for occupational education; accounting of money appropriated for awarding grants.

231.068  Powers and duties: Grants for programs for occupational education; accounting of money appropriated for awarding grants.

      1.  The Commission on Economic Development, to the extent of legislative appropriations, may grant money to a postsecondary educational institution to develop a program for occupational education which is designed to teach skills in a short period to persons who are needed for employment by new or existing businesses.

      2.  Any money appropriated to the Commission on Economic Development for awarding grants to develop a program specified in subsection 1 must be accounted for separately in the State General Fund. The money in the account:

      (a) Does not revert to the State General Fund at the end of any fiscal year; and

      (b) Must be carried forward to the next fiscal year.

      (Added to NRS by 1985, 623; A 1999, 3114)