HOUSE BILL 816

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2003

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Helen Garcia







AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR CERTAIN MARIACHI ACTIVITIES.



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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION--MARIACHI ACTIVITIES.--Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the local government division of the department of finance and administration for expenditure in fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for the purpose of providing funding for music instruction, traditional outfits, instruments, sound equipment and travel to a mariachi conference for one or more mariachi groups that operate in the Las Cruces, Deming and El Paso areas. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2005 shall revert to the general fund.