SENATE BILL 949

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Leonard Tsosie

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR REPATRIATION, CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN COLLECTION OBJECTS BELONGING TO THE CULTURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the cultural affairs department for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 to inventory three hundred sets of human physical remains in the state archaeological repository collections for the purpose of repatriation and reburial and for conservation and collection preservation of the Native American collections belonging to museums in the cultural affairs department, principally located at the museum of Indian arts and culture. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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