HOUSE BILL 527

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013

INTRODUCED BY

Jim R. Trujillo

AN ACT

RELATING TO TAXATION; INCREASING THE PERCENTAGE OF THE LIQUOR EXCISE TAX DISTRIBUTED TO THE LOCAL DWI GRANT FUND.

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

     SECTION 1. Section 7-1-6.40 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1997, Chapter 182, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

     "7-1-6.40. DISTRIBUTION--LOCAL DWI GRANT FUND--MUNICIPALITIES.--

          A. A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 shall be made to the local DWI grant fund in an amount equal to [forty-one and fifty hundredths] seventy-five percent of the net receipts, exclusive of penalties and interest, attributable to the liquor excise tax.

          B. A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 of twenty thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($20,750) monthly from the net receipts attributable to the liquor excise tax shall be made to a municipality that is located in a class A county and that has a population according to the most recent federal decennial census of more than thirty thousand but less than sixty thousand. The distribution pursuant to this subsection shall be used by the municipality only for the provision of alcohol treatment and rehabilitation services for street inebriates."

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