AN ACT

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE EXPENDITURES; MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FROM LEGISLATIVE CASH BALANCES FOR NECESSARY EXPENSES OF THE SPECIAL SESSION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

     Section 1. SPECIAL SESSION--APPROPRIATION.--

          A. The following amounts are appropriated from the legislative council service cash balances for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 for the following expenses of the first special session of the forty-sixth legislature:

                (1) for the expense of the house of representatives, three hundred three thousand three hundred dollars ($303,300) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the speaker and the chief clerk of the house of representatives;

                (2) for the expense of the senate, three hundred two thousand eight hundred dollars ($302,800) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the chairman of the committees' committee and the chief clerk of the senate; and

                (3) for the expense of the legislative council service, the joint billroom and the legislative switchboard, seventy-six thousand dollars ($76,000) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the director of the legislative council service or his authorized representative.

          B. Following adjournment of the first special session of the forty-sixth legislature, expenditures authorized in this section shall be disbursed on vouchers signed by the director of the legislative council service or his authorized representative.

     Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.

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