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Ways & Means advances $22.8M for university planning and maintenance projects across Nevada System of Higher Education
Summary
The committee advanced Senate Bill 427, allocating $22.8 million in planning and one‑time maintenance funds to NSHE institutions, including $6.2 million each for UNR and UNLV planning design for life‑sciences and business buildings; the committee accepted a conceptual amendment replacing a proposed bond sweep with general‑fund support for CSN.
The Assembly Ways and Means Committee advanced Senate Bill 427, which provides state funding for planning, design and one‑time maintenance projects across the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE).
SB 427 includes $6.2 million in state planning money for the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to design a life‑sciences facility and $6.2 million for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to plan a new Lee Business School building. The bill also includes smaller appropriations for maintenance and safety projects at community colleges, the Desert Research Institute, and Western Nevada College, totaling $22,809,302 in the version the committee considered prior to an amendment.
At the hearing UNR President Brian Sandoval described the existing Fleischmann Agricultural building, constructed in…
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