HOUSE BILL 256

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2018

INTRODUCED BY

Harry Garcia and Eliseo Lee Alcon and George Dodge, Jr. And Rodolpho "Rudy" S. Martinez and Bob Wooley

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE VETERANS' SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO EDUCATE NEW MEXICANS ABOUT THE MISSION OF THREE NUCLEAR-POWERED SUBMARINES, TO RECOGNIZE NAVAL PROGRAMS, TO PROVIDE TRAVEL EXPENSES FOR NAVAL AND MARINE RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS STUDENTS ATTENDING COMPETITIONS IN NEW MEXICO AND TO SEEK TO NAME A NAVY WARSHIP.

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the veterans' services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2019 to educate the people of New Mexico about the missions of the nuclear-powered submarines USS New Mexico, SSN-779, and USS Santa Fe, SSN-763, and the effort to retire the USS Albuquerque, SSN-706; to recognize the state's naval junior reserve officers' training corps; to provide travel expenses for naval and marine reserve officers' training corps students attending competitions in New Mexico; and to seek to name a navy warship after Los Alamos county. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2019 shall revert to the general fund.

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