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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR McCoy

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

3/01/2007

HB HJM70

SHORT TITLE Legislative Council Service Field Offices

SB

ANALYST McOlash

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Joint Memorial 70 requests the Legislative Structure and Process Study Task Force

(LSPSTF) to examine the feasibility of establishing Legislative Council Service (LCS) field

offices.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

NFI

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

House Joint Memorial 70 recognizes that the demands placed on New Mexico’s citizen legislator

are increasing, requiring legislators to spend more of their time and money on their legislative

duties. Although these duties have increased, legislators, with the exception of legislative

leadership, are not provided with personal staff, office space or office resources, postage,

telecommunication allowances, or easy access to research libraries and materials.

This memorial requests the existent LSPSTF to study the feasibility of providing LCS field

office and report its recommendations and findings. The memorial further requests that copies of

the memorial to the co-chairs of the LSPSTF.

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