SENATE BILL 408

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Nancy Rodriguez

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PRESERVE THE CHIMAYO CHILE STRAIN AND FURTHER DEVELOP THE TRADITIONAL NEW MEXICAN CHIMAYO CHILE AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the economic development department for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 to contract with a nonprofit cultural asset community development organization, administratively based in Santa Fe county, that will work with a Chimayo-based coalition to develop an economic development plan and to begin implementation to preserve, conserve, heirloom and seed bank the Chimayo chile strain in order to economically develop the traditional New Mexican Chimayo chile agricultural industry. The economic development department shall report the benefits and results of this appropriation to the second session of the forty-seventh legislature. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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