HOUSE BILL 755

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2006

INTRODUCED BY

Ben Lujan

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE INDIAN WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT FUND FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STATE'S PORTION OF SETTLEMENT IN STATE EX REL STATE ENGINEER V. AAMODT, ET AL.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the Indian water rights settlement fund for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 and subsequent fiscal years to implement the state's portion of the settlement agreement in State ex rel State Engineer v. Aamodt, et al., 66cv06639 (D. NM 1966). Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.

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