HOUSE BILL 214

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2004

INTRODUCED BY

Al Park

AN ACT

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT BY THE STATE FAIR COMMISSION; INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF CERTAIN PURCHASES THAT ARE EXCLUDED FROM PROCUREMENT THROUGH THE STATE PURCHASING AGENT; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE PROCUREMENT CODE.

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

     Section 1. Section 13-1-99 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1984, Chapter 65, Section 72, as amended) is amended to read:

     "13-1-99. EXCLUDED FROM CENTRAL PURCHASING THROUGH THE STATE PURCHASING AGENT.--Excluded from the requirement of procurement through the state purchasing agent but not from the requirements of the Procurement Code are the following:

          A. procurement of professional services;

          B. small purchases having a value not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500);

          C. emergency procurement;

          D. procurement of highway construction or reconstruction by the [state highway and] department of transportation [department];

          E. procurement by the judicial branch of state government;

          F. procurement by the legislative branch of state government;

          G. procurement by the boards of regents of state educational institutions named in Article 12, Section 11 of the constitution of New Mexico;

          H. procurement by the state fair commission of tangible personal property, services and construction under [five thousand dollars ($5,000)] ten thousand dollars ($10,000);

          I. purchases from the instructional material fund;

          J. procurement by all local public bodies;

          K. procurement by regional education cooperatives;

          L. procurement by charter schools; and

          M. procurement by each state health care institution that provides direct patient care and that is, or a part of which is, medicaid certified and participating in the New Mexico medicaid program."

     Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2004.