0001|                            HOUSE BILL 41
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                              BEN LUJAN
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND INITIAL EXPENSES OF THE GAMING
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0012|     CONTROL BOARD AND A SYSTEM OF CONTINUOUS COMPUTER MONITORING
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0013|     OF LICENSED GAMING MACHINES; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--
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0017|               A.  Four million four hundred thousand dollars
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0018|     ($4,400,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0019|     gaming control board for expenditure in fiscal year 1999 in
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0020|     the following amounts and for the following purposes:
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0021|                    (1)  one million four hundred thousand dollars
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0022|     ($1,400,000) for operational expenses of the gaming control
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0023|     board; and
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0024|                    (2)  three million dollars ($3,000,000) for
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0025|     capital expenditures required to develop and implement a
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0001|     system of continuous computer monitoring of licenced gaming
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0002|     machines mandated by the Gaming Control Act.
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0003|               B.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0004|     remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the
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0005|     general fund.
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0006|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0007|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0008|     immediately.
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