FORTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SPECIAL SESSION, 2005

October 7, 2005

Mr. Speaker:

    Your APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

HOUSE BILL 8

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

     1. On page 1, line 23, strike “appropriated to the department of finance and administration”.

     2. On page 2, line 2, after “relief” insert “, in accordance with programs existing within New Mexico law,”.

     3. On page 2, line 19, strike "and".

     4. On page 2, lines 20 and 21, strike the money amount and insert in lieu thereof "four million five hundred thousand dollars ($4,500,000)".

     5. On page 2, line 22, strike the period, insert in lieu thereof "; and" and between lines 22 and 23, insert the following new paragraph:

                "(5) four million five hundred thousand dollars ($4,500,000) to the higher education department for natural gas and motor fuel costs of public post-secondary educational institutions, to be distributed to each institution on a pro rata basis of the difference between fiscal year 2005 actual expenditures for those items and the fiscal year 2006 projections of expenditures as of October 5, 2005.".