0001|                           SENATE BILL 725
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                              JOHN PINTO
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0012|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS TO PLAN, DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, FURNISH AND
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0013|     EQUIP A NEW HEAD START FACILITY FOR THE NENAHNEZAD CHAPTER OF
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0014|     THE NAVAJO NATION LOCATED IN SAN JUAN COUNTY; MAKING AN
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0015|     APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0019|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may
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0020|     issue and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the
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0021|     Severance Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding seven
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0022|     hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) when the New Mexico
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0023|     office of Indian affairs certifies the need for the issuance of
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0024|     the bonds.  The state board of finance shall schedule the
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0025|     issuance and sale of the bonds in the most expeditious and
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0001|     economical manner possible upon a finding by the board that the
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0002|     project has been developed sufficiently to justify the issuance
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0003|     and that the project can proceed to contract within a
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0004|     reasonable time.  The state board of finance shall further take
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0005|     the appropriate steps necessary to comply with the Internal
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0006|     Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The proceeds from the sale
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0007|     of the bonds are appropriated to the New Mexico office of
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0008|     Indian affairs for the purpose of designing, constructing,
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0009|     furnishing and equipping a new head start facility for the
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0010|     Nenahnezad chapter of the Navajo nation located in San Juan
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0011|     county.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at
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0012|     the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax
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0013|     bonding fund.  If the New Mexico office of Indian affairs has
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0014|     not certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end
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0015|     of fiscal year 1999, the authorization provided in this section
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0016|     shall be void.
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0017|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0018|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0020|       
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0022|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0023|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0001|                                               February 20, 1997
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0003|   Mr. President:
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0005|       Your INDIAN & CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom
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0006|   has been referred
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0007|   
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0008|                          SENATE BILL 725
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0009|   
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0010|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0011|   recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0012|   FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0014|                                Respectfully submitted,
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0019|   __________________________________
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0020|                                John Pinto, Chairman 
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0024|   Adopted_______________________   Not
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0025|   Adopted_______________________
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0001|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0004|                     Date ________________________
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0007|   The roll call vote was <u> 5 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
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0008|           Yes:    5
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0009|           No:     0
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0010|                Excused:     Carraro, Davis, Kysar, Rawson
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0011|           Absent: None
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0014|   S0725IC1
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