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HAFC/H 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 AND 9, aa - Page 1
AN ACT
MAKING GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES REQUIRED BY LAW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. SHORT TITLE.--This act may be cited as the “General Appropriation Act of 2007".
Section 2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the General Appropriation Act of 2007:
A. “agency" means an office, department, agency, institution, board, bureau, commission,
court, district attorney, council or committee of state government;
B. “efficiency" means the measure of the degree to which services are efficient and
productive and is often expressed in terms of dollars or time per unit of output;
C. “explanatory" means information that can help users to understand reported performance
measures and to evaluate the significance of underlying factors that may have affected the reported
information;
D. “federal funds" means any payments by the United States government to state government or
agencies except those payments made in accordance with the federal Mineral Lands Leasing Act;
E. “full-time equivalent" or “FTE" means one or more authorized positions that alone or
together receives or receive compensation for not more than two thousand eighty-eight hours worked in
fiscal year 2008. The calculation of hours worked includes compensated absences but does not include
overtime, compensatory time or sick leave paid pursuant to Section 10-7-10 NMSA 1978;
F. “general fund" means that fund created by Section 6-4-2 NMSA 1978 and includes federal
Mineral Lands Leasing Act receipts and those payments made in accordance with the federal block grant and
the federal Workforce Investment Act but excludes the general fund operating reserve, the appropriation
contingency fund, the tax stabilization reserve and any other fund, reserve or account from which general
appropriations are restricted by law;
G. “interagency transfers" means revenue, other than internal service funds, legally
transferred from one agency to another;