1. The Division shall prepare requests for proposals for the provision by treatment providers of: (a) Residential treatment of adolescents with substance use disorders; (b) Outpatient treatment of adolescents with substance use disorders; (c) Comprehensive evaluations of adolescents with problems relating to substance use disorders or mental illness, or both; and (d) Transitional housing for adolescents with substance use disorders. 2. Upon accepting a proposal submitted in accordance with this section, the Division may advance not more than 8 percent of the amount of the proposal to the treatment provider that submitted the proposal to help defray the costs of starting the provision of the services, including, without limitation, the cost of beds, equipment and rental space for expansion. 3. The Division shall establish such requirements for the requests for proposals as it determines necessary. 4. The Division shall hire, to the extent of legislative authorization, such staff as it determines necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and NRS 458.131. (Added to NRS by 1999, 1873; A 2001, 423; 2005, 22nd Special Session, 62; 2015, 747)
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