HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL 29

44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - 2nd special session, 2000









AN ACT

MAKING GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES REQUIRED BY LAW; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. SPECIAL FISCAL YEAR 2000 AND 2001 APPROPRIATIONS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund or other funds as indicated for the purposes specified. Unless otherwise indicated, the appropriations may be expended in fiscal years 2000 and 2001. Unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall revert to the appropriate fund:

A. seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) is appropriated from the general fund to the organic commodity commission for operating expenses;

B. two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the tourism department for advertising; and

C. the following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the economic development department for the following purposes:

(1) one hundred ten thousand dollars ($110,000) for the Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico Smithsonian exhibit on the Rio Grande; and

(2) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for project uplift.

Section 2. SPECIAL FISCAL YEAR 2001 APPROPRIATIONS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund or other funds as indicated for the purposes specified. Unless otherwise indicated, the appropriations may be expended in fiscal year 2001. Unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall revert to the appropriate fund:

A. one hundred thirty-six thousand dollars ($136,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the supreme court law library for the westlaw contract;

B. one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the magistrate courts of the administrative office of the courts for three permanent full-time equivalent clerks;

C. one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the second judicial district attorney for grand jury costs for re-indictments;

D. twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state auditor for rent increases;

E. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the local government division of the department of finance and administration for the purpose of providing services to at-risk children at the Dona Ana county educational camp and recreational park as a pilot program for similar program services statewide;

F. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public defender department for costs associated with grand jury re-indictments in Bernalillo county;

G. two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the tourism department for advertising;

H. one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the office of cultural affairs for the route 66 celebration;

I. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the Hispanic cultural division of the office of cultural affairs for events related to the opening and dedication of the Hispanic cultural center;

J. twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) is appropriated from the general fund and twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) is appropriated from federal funds to the New Mexico livestock board for an additional meat inspector;

K. seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) is appropriated from the general fund from the general fund to the organic commodity commission for operations;

L. the following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the New Mexico office of Indian affairs for the following purposes:

(1) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the purpose of facilitating water rights negotiations between the Navajo Nation and the state;

(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to fund an informational process, develop basic provisions and complete intergovernmental agreements pursuant to Section 32A-1-8 NMSA 1978 between the children, youth and families department and tribes interested in entering into agreements with the state;

(3) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a development officer in Crownpoint to assist with planning and implementing capital projects; and

(4) eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) to contract for the provision of domestic violence and parents intervention program services in Crownpoint;

M. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health to contract for provision of substance abuse outpatient treatment services in the southeastern area of McKinley county;

N. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the children, youth and families department for medicaid ineligible youth programs;

O. thirty-eight thousand dollars ($38,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the corrections department for a prison visitation facility at the female facility in Grants;

P. one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the crime victims reparation commission for domestic violence against women programs;

Q. the following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the state department of public education for the following purposes:

(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the center for civic values mock trial program; and

(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to expand service learning initiatives;

R. the following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the university of New Mexico for the following purposes:

(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to expand the base of funding for the existing New Mexico resource geographic information system program at the university of New Mexico; additional resource geographic information system responsibilities will include staff to support the geographic information system advisory committee and related geographic information system activities, advancing the goals of the information technology commission;

(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for housing and support services for cancer patients and their families in Albuquerque; and

(3) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for scholarships for international students from Latin America to attend the university;

S. one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the New Mexico department of agriculture for acequias;

T. the following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to New Mexico state university for the following purposes:

(1) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for a dental assistance program at the Dona Ana branch; and

(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to increase women's sports activities to comply with Title 9 of the federal Education Amendments of 1972;

U. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) is appropriated from the general fund to western New Mexico university to increase women's sports activities to comply with Title 9 of the federal Education Amendments of 1972;

V. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to eastern New Mexico university for a mathematics, engineering and science program for high school students;

W. four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) is appropriated from the general fund to Santa Fe community college for small business development centers; and

X. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is appropriated from the general fund to San Juan college for a dental assistance program at the college.

Section 3. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.

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