SENATE BILL 4
47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first special session, 2005
INTRODUCED BY
Timothy Z. Jennings
AN ACT
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO OFFSET INCREASED PUBLIC SAFETY EXPENSES OF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND SHERIFFS' DEPARTMENTS; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--
A. The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the following agencies in fiscal year 2006 as follows to offset increased public safety expenses because of increased gasoline prices:
(1) to the state fire marshal, two million dollars ($2,000,000) to be divided among the volunteer and predominently volunteer fire departments; provided that the distribution shall be based on ten percent of each department's current-year distribution from the fire protection fund; and
(2) to the local government division of the department of finance and administration, one million six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,650,000) to be divided equally among all county sheriff offices.
B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.
Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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