HOUSE BILL 530

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

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Helen Garcia

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO PURCHASE VOTING MACHINES FROM CERTAIN COUNTIES.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION--CONTINGENCY.--Four million dollars ($4,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the secretary of state for expenditure in fiscal years 2006 and 2007 to purchase voting machines from counties that purchased voting machines to meet new voting system standards if legislation is enacted by the second session of the forty-seventh legislature requiring replacement of those voting machines. The secretary of state shall sell the voting systems purchased from the counties and deposit the revenue in the electronic voting machine revolving fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.

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