ECONOMIC AND FISCAL POLICY REPORT - The Legislatively Approved Budget for the State of Nevada: 2023-2025 Biennium

For example, the Health and Human Services function is composed of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.12 (Appendix B contains a crosswalk between functions and departments for the current biennium.) Figure 7 shows the distribution of funding, by function, for the 2023-2025 biennium. [...] 12 In the current biennium, the summary total for the Health and Human Services function ($21.0 billion) is equal to the sum of the Department of Health and Human Services’ budget ($20.4 billion) and the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation’s budget ($620 million). [...] Three of the five departments that correspond to the two largest core functions – the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the Nevada System of Higher Education – account for 71.2 percent of statewide expenditures.14 The Department of Health and Human Services makes up the largest share of funding in the current biennium, or 38.1 percent of statewide expenditur. [...] 19 The Governor’s Office, the Department of Business and Industry, and the Department of Public Safety (though note that the share of federal funding to the Governor’s Office is 6.5 percent in the current biennium). [...] 20 An example is the Highway Fund, which funds six agencies in the current biennium: the Governor’s Office, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Business and Industry, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the Legislative Branch.