FORTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2003





March 8, 2003





Mr. Speaker:



Your APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred



HOUSE BILL 8, as amended



has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:



1. Strike all house business and industry committee amendments.



2. On page 1, line 11, strike "MAKING AN APPROPRIATION" and insert in lieu thereof "RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT TRAINING; PROVIDING".



3. On page 1, line 15, after the first period insert "DISTRIBUTION OF" and after ".--", strike the remainder of the line, strike lines 16 through 23 in their entirety and insert in lieu thereof:



"A. Of appropriations made in fiscal year 2004 for development training, up to two-thirds shall be expended in urban communities in the state. At least one-third of the appropriations made in fiscal year 2004 for development training shall be expended in non-urban communities.



B. Up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of money appropriated to the economic development department for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 for in-plant training may be used by the department to administer the development training program.



C. As used in this section:



(1) "non-urban community" means a municipality that is not an urban community or the unincorporated area of a county; and



(2) "urban community" means a municipality with a population of forty thousand or more according to the most recent federal decennial census.".







Respectfully submitted,







Max Coll, Chairman





Adopted Not Adopted

(Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)



Date



The roll call vote was 11 For 0 Against

Yes: 11

Excused: Begaye, Heaton, King, Marquardt, Ogle, Ponce, Townsend

Absent: None





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