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Vigil |
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HB |
794 |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Liquor Tax Revenue to Local DWI Grant Fund |
SB |
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ANALYST: |
Neel |
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REVENUE
Estimated Revenue |
Subsequent Years Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
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($611.0) |
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Recurring |
State General Fund |
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$11.0 |
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Recurring |
Shared Among All Counties |
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$600.0 |
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Recurring |
San Miguel County |
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(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases)
LFC files
Responses
Received From:
Taxation
and Revenue Department (TRD)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House Bill
794 increases the percentage of state liquor excise tax revenue distributed to
the Local DWI Grant und administered by the Local Government Division of the
Department of Finance and Administration.
The current percentage is 34.57% of net liquor excise tax revenue. For fiscal year 2004, the percent
distributed would increase to 36.15%.
Under
provisions in HB 794, an additional $600,000 in FY 2004 and in subsequent years
would be appropriated from the DWI Grant Fund for distribution to
Amounts
for other beneficiaries of the fund, the $2 million reserved for grants to
local governments, the formula distribution to all counties, and the $2.8
million distribution to certain counties for alcohol detoxification and
treatment facilities would be mostly unchanged from current amounts.
The relatively small amount of
excess money, $11,000 in FY 04 and subsequent years, would be distributed to
all counties by the formula distribution specified in Section 11-6A-6 NMSA 1978.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPACT
TRD does not anticipate significant administrative
impact.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
TRD provides the following background information:
The DWI Grant Fund was originally created by Laws 1993,
Chapter 65, Section 3 (Chapter 11, Article 6A NMSA 1978) as part of a major liquor
tax increase and DWI prevention effort.
From 1993 through 1997 the fund was financed by state General Fund
appropriation. The 1993 legislation
appropriated $5.5 million for the 1993-94 fiscal year to the newly created
Local DWI Grant Fund for use in grants to local communities to fund innovative
programs and services dealing with DWI, alcoholism and alcohol abuse. Appropriations to the fund for fiscal years
1994 through 1997 were roughly $5 million per year. Also in fiscal year 1993-94, an additional
$5.1 million was appropriated to the newly created DWI Program Fund
administered by DFA for use in new state agency programs meeting the guidelines
of the Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Screening and Treatment Act. The Community DWI Fund was appropriated $9.2
million, replacing the old earmarked tax to the Community Alcoholism Treatment
and Detoxification Fund.
1997 legislation (Laws
1997, Chapter 182 – 1997 HB-107) directed 27.2% ($9.7 million) of state Liquor
Excise Tax revenue from the State General Fund to the Local DWI Grant Fund, and
created a new quarterly distribution by formula to counties amounting to
available money in the fund less $2 million reserved for local government
grants.
2000 legislation (Laws 2000, Chapter 83 – 2000 SWMC
Substitute for SB-96) increased the DWI Grant Fund distribution to 32.7% (an
additional $2.0 million) of liquor excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002
only, and appropriated the additional amount to Bernalillo County ($1.7
million) and San Juan County ($0.3 million) to fund alcohol detoxification and
treatment facilities.
2001 legislation (Laws 2001, Chapter 112 – HB-103)
permanently directed 34.57% of state liquor excise tax revenue to the Local DWI
Grant Fund, beginning in fiscal year 2002. An additional $0.5 million was
appropriated from the DWI Grant Fund for distribution to
The one-time distributions to
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