Nevada Revised Statutes 432B.2165 – Incentive payment program: Administration by Division of Child and Family Services; application by certain agencies which provide child welfare services for incentive payment; approval or denial of application
1. The Division of Child and Family Services shall administer a program to award incentive payments to an agency which provides child welfare services in a county whose population is 100,000 or more.
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 432B.2165
- county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- population: means the number of people in a specified area as determined by the last preceding national decennial census conducted by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce pursuant to Section 2 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States and reported by the Secretary of Commerce to the Governor pursuant to 13 U. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.050
2. On or before May 1 of each year, an agency which provides child welfare services may submit an application to the Division of Child and Family Services for an incentive payment.
3. The application for an incentive payment must include, without limitation:
(a) A description of the specific goal that the agency which provides child welfare services agrees to achieve by June 30 of the following year if the incentive payment is awarded;
(b) Baseline data to support the need to achieve the specific goal and which will provide a manner in which to measure whether the goal is achieved or to determine the percentage of the goal that is achieved; and
(c) The amount requested by the agency which provides child welfare services as an incentive payment.
4. If the Division of Child and Family Services does not approve the application, the Division must notify the agency which provides child welfare services of the specific deficiencies in the application and allow the agency to resubmit the application within 30 days.
5. If the Division of Child and Family Services approves the application, the Division of Child and Family Services shall, to the extent that money is available for that purpose, award an incentive payment to the agency which provides child welfare services for the fiscal year beginning on July 1 of the year in which the application is submitted.