health insurance for poor children, rural mental health clinics, an indigent accident account that pays for hospital costs of indigents hurt in accidents, and personal care attendants for the infirm and elderly.
The stimulus money for Nevada also includes $480 million in education funding, according to the FFIS report. That includes $150 million for special education and Title 1 programs. There's no construction-project funding for education.
Hicks said initial information on the emerging stimulus plan didn't include details on any higher education funding that Nevada might get.
About $210 million of the stimulus funds for Nevada will be used for ``shovel-ready'' highway construction projects, mainly in the Las Vegas and Reno areas, Nevada's population centers. Various projects that could get some of that money have a combined total cost of several hundred million dollars.
Also in the stimulus plan is about $30 million for justice assistance grants; and about $70 million in general-purpose funds that give states flexibility in how they're spent.
Hicks said Gibbons would propose to the Legislature that the first use of that be to reduce his proposed 6 percent pay cuts for state employees and educators in the K-12 and higher education systems.
Until now, state officials had been trying without much success to calculate the impact of the stimulus plan on Nevada. The guesswork had been described as ``a little bit of nailing Jell-O to the wall'' by Dan Klaich, executive vice chancellor of the state's university-college system.
