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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Komadina
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
01/18/07
HB
SHORT TITLE BOLO TIE AS OFFICIAL NEW MEXICAN TIE
SB 19
ANALYST Hanika Ortiz
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
NFI
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates HB 115
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Bill 19 seeks to adopt the bolo tie as the official state tie of New Mexico.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
There will be minimal costs to update various state documents to include the official state tie.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
If the bolo tie is adopted as the official New Mexico tie, it will join some of the other
symbols used to represent the state, among which are the following:
the state seal
other state songs:
“O, FAIR NEW MEXICO" by Elizabeth Garrett
“ASI ES NUEVO MEJICO" by Amadeo Lucero
“LAND OF ENCHANTMENT," state ballad, by Michael Martin Murphy and others
“NEW MEXICO – MI LINDO NUEVO MEJICO" by Pablo Mares
‘TO NEW MEXICO" – “A NUEVO MEJICO", state poem written by Luis Tafoya
Yucca, the state flower