RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE EXPENDITURES; MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FROM LEGISLATIVE CASH BALANCES FOR NECESSARY EXPENSES OF THE SPECIAL SESSION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

Section 1. SPECIAL SESSION--APPROPRIATION.--

A. The following amounts are appropriated from the legislative council service cash balances for expenditure in fiscal year 2000 for the following expenses of the second special session of the forty-fourth legislature:

(1) for the expense of the house of representatives, two hundred thirty-three thousand five hundred ninety-seven dollars ($233,597) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the speaker and the chief clerk of the house of representatives;

(2) for the expense of the senate, two hundred ninety-four thousand one hundred nineteen dollars ($294,119) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the chairman of the committees' committee and the chief clerk of the senate; and

(3) for the expense of the legislative council service, the joint bill room and the legislative switchboard, seventy-two thousand dollars ($72,000) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the director of the legislative council service or his authorized representative.

B. Following adjournment of the second special session of the forty-fourth legislature, expenditures authorized in this section shall be disbursed on vouchers signed by the director of the legislative council service or his authorized representative.

Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.

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