HOUSE BILL 242

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2006

INTRODUCED BY

Mimi Stewart

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL FILMMAKING FESTIVAL AS PART OF THE ALBUQUERQUE TRICENTENNIAL.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the New Mexico film division of the economic development department for expenditure in fiscal years 2006 and 2007 to contract for services to conduct an international digital filmmaking festival as part of the Albuquerque tricentennial that will serve to educate trainees of the state film technicians training program and students of the media arts program at the university of New Mexico. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.