HOUSE BILL 519

49th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2009

INTRODUCED BY

Miguel P. Garcia

AN ACT

RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATEWIDE OPERATOR HOTLINE TO HELP CITIZENS OBTAIN STATE SERVICES; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

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

     Section 1. Section 9-6-5.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1983, Chapter 296, Section 7) is amended to read:

     "9-6-5.1. PLANNING POWERS AND DUTIES OF SECRETARY OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION.--The secretary of [the department of] finance and administration, in addition to the other powers and duties conferred:

          A. shall review federal grant applications and provide management assistance;

          B. shall coordinate, in accordance with directives from the governor's office of policy and planning, state agency plans for economic, natural resource, energy resource and human resource development;

          C. shall provide aid to planning and development districts in developing grant proposals and cooperate with other local entities in developing grant proposals;

          D. shall acquire, study and review all plans for capital projects proposed by state agencies and render advice on the plans. The secretary shall maintain long-range estimates and plans for capital projects and develop standards for measuring the need for and utility of proposed projects;

          E. may contract for, receive and utilize any grants or other financial assistance made available by the United States government or by any other source, public or private;

          F. may provide planning and funding assistance to units of local government, council of government organizations, Indian tribal governments situated within New Mexico and [to] nonprofit entities having for their purpose local, regional or community betterment. The secretary, incident to any such programs, may enter into contracts and agreements with such units of local government, council of government organizations, Indian tribal governments, nonprofit entities and the federal government and may participate in or receive aid from any federal or private program in relation to such a planning program or assistance;

          G. shall confer with the state budget division of the department of finance and administration in developing comprehensive plans to assure coordination of planning and budgeting functions;

          H. shall coordinate the state clearinghouse review process;

          I. shall develop a status of the state report;

          J. shall review and coordinate comment by state agencies on draft environmental impact statements;

          K. shall provide community development block grant technical assistance to local governments;

          L. shall administer, in consultation with and upon advice and direction from the community development block grant policy committee, the program for the state community development block grant program;

          M. shall serve as staff to the New Mexico association of regional councils;

          N. shall maintain a state planning library; [and]

          O. shall provide planning assistance to county and multi-county districts relative to application by such districts for financial assistance and for regional plan development; and

          P. shall establish a statewide operator assistance hotline to help citizens obtain state services from appropriate agencies or programs."

     Section 2. APPROPRIATION.--Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of finance and administration for expenditure in fiscal year 2010 and subsequent fiscal years to establish and operate a statewide operator assistance hotline to help citizens obtain state services. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2010 shall not revert to the general fund.

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