1. To account for variation between the counties of this State in the cost of living and the cost of labor, the Department shall establish by regulation cost adjustment factors for the school district located in, and each charter school that provides classroom-based instruction in, each county of this State.
2. Not later than May 1 of each even-numbered year, the Department shall review and determine whether revisions are necessary to the cost adjustment factors for the school district located in each county of this State. The Department shall present the review and any revisions at a meeting of the Legislative Committee on Education for consideration and recommendations by the Committee. After the meeting, the Department shall consider any recommendations of the Legislative Committee on Education, determine whether to include those recommendations and adopt by regulation any revision to the cost adjustment factors. The Department shall submit any revision to the cost adjustment factors to each school district, the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 4201, effective July 1, 2021)