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SPONSOR: |
Stewart |
DATE TYPED: |
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HB |
HJM 3 |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Reduce Vehicle-Wildlife Collisions |
SB |
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ANALYST: |
Gilbert |
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APPROPRIATION
Appropriation
Contained |
Estimated
Additional Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
FY03 |
FY04 |
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$0.1
See Narrative |
Recurring |
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(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
LFC Files
State Highway and Transportation Department
(SHTD)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House Joint Memorial 3
requests state and congressional officials to take formal action to reduce vehicle-wildlife
collisions on
Significant
Issues
This bill requests:
The New Mexico congressional delegation to help
secure federal funding for enlarging or building underpasses and overpasses and
for implementing other technologies to make our roads safer for wildlife and
people;
The governor to declare a "state day"
to educate people about the importance of reducing vehicle-wildlife collisions;
The governor to require state agencies to
educate drivers of state vehicles about ways to mitigate vehicle-wildlife
collisions;
Requests the State Highway and Transportation Department
(SHTD) and Motor Vehicle Division of the Taxation and Revenue Department to
include information in written materials, driver's education programs and
driver's license manuals and tests about the hazards and prevention of
vehicle-wildlife collisions;
Commends the Game and Fish Department and the
SHTD for working together to make our highways safer for wildlife and people
and encourages them to create a memorandum of understanding requiring them to
cooperate on long-term planning of road projects and to share information to
help reduce road kill resulting from vehicle-wildlife collisions on the roads
of New Mexico; and
Copies of this memorial be
transmitted to the
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
If the recommendations
contained in HJM3 are implemented, recurring costs will arise from publicizing
the vehicle-wildlife state day and providing new written materials and training
relating to vehicle-wildlife collisions.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
The SHTD, the State
Game Commission, the Department of Game and Fish, and the Motor Vehicle
Division of the Taxation and Revenue Department must work cooperatively
together to carry out the provisions of this bill.