45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2002
RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE; REQUIRING ALL REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE, OTHER THAN PROPOSED LEGISLATION, TO BE THREE PAGES OR LESS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. Section 2-3-14.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1985, Chapter 19, Section 1) is amended to read:
"2-3-14.1. STATE AGENCIES--REPORTS.--[A.] No state
agency shall submit or send to the members of the legislature
any material, other than proposed legislation, in excess of
[five] three pages.
[B. Nothing in this section shall limit the
response of any agency to a direct request of a legislator or
group of legislators nor the submission of the executive
budget.
C. All reports to the legislature by a state
agency shall be filed in duplicate with the legislative
council service and such reports shall not be subject to the
page limitations of this section. The service shall compile a
list of the reports submitted prior to each regular
legislative session since the beginning of the previous
regular session, listing the title and agency and distribute
the list among the legislators during the first week of the
session.
D. Any legislator may request any report,
including those listed pursuant to Subsection C of this
section. Upon such a request, the state agency shall furnish
the report to the legislator.
E. Compliance by a state agency with Subsection C
of this section shall fulfill any requirement of a state
agency to report to the legislature, unless the requirement is
specifically exempted from the requirements of this section.
F. No state agency shall submit material bound
other than by staples unless the bulk or other qualities of
the material require other bindings; provided that, in all
cases, the most economical method of binding and packaging
shall be used.
G.] For the purposes of this section, "state
agency" means any agency, division or instrumentality of the
state. [but does not include political subdivisions and
educational institutions or any of the legislature's divsions,
instrumentalities or committees.]"