0001|                           SENATE BILL 948
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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|                            LEONARD TSOSIE
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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 FOR THE COUNTY ROAD 27 COOLIDGE TO COUNTY
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0013|     ROAD 61 ROAD PROJECT IN MCKINLEY COUNTY; MAKING AN
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0014|     APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0018|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may
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0019|     issue and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the
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0020|     Severance Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding three
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0021|     hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) when the state highway and
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0022|     transportation department certifies the need for the issuance
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0023|     of the bonds.  The state board of finance shall schedule the
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0024|     issuance and sale of the bonds in the most expeditious and
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0025|     economical manner possible upon a finding by the board that the
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0001|     project has been developed sufficiently to justify the issuance
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0002|     and that the project can proceed to contract within a
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0003|     reasonable time.  The state board of finance shall further take
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0004|     the appropriate steps necessary to comply with the Internal
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0005|     Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The proceeds from the sale
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0006|     of the bonds are appropriated to the state highway and
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0007|     transportation department for the purpose of designing and
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0008|     constructing the county road 27 Coolidge to county road 61 road
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0009|     project located in McKinley county.  Any unexpended or
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0010|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000
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0011|     shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund.  If the state
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0012|     highway and transportation department has not certified the
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0013|     need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year
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0014|     1999, the authorization provided in this section shall be void.
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0015|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0016|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0017|                                    
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0019|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0020|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0023|                                                   March 4, 1997
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0025|   Mr. President:
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0002|       Your INDIAN & CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom
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0003|   has been referred
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0004|   
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0005|                          SENATE BILL 948
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0007|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0008|   recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0009|   FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0011|                                Respectfully submitted,
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0016|   __________________________________
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0017|                                John Pinto, Chairman 
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0021|   Adopted_______________________   Not
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0022|   Adopted_______________________
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0023|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0001|                     Date ________________________
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0004|   The roll call vote was <u> 6 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
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0005|           Yes:    6
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0006|           No:     0
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0007|                Excused:     Davis, Maes, Rawson
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0008|           Absent: None
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0011|   S0948IC1
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