HOUSE BILL 502

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

INTRODUCED BY

Thomas C. Taylor

AN ACT

RELATING TO TAXATION; PROVIDING FOR A DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUOR EXCISE TAX REVENUES TO CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF STREET INEBRIATES.

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

     Section 1. Section 7-1-6.40 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1997, Chapter 182, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

     "7-1-6.40. DISTRIBUTION--LOCAL DWI GRANT FUND--MUNICIPALITIES.--

          A. A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 shall be made to the local DWI grant fund in an amount equal to forty-one and fifty hundredths percent of the net receipts attributable to the liquor excise tax.

          B. A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) monthly from the net receipts attributable to the liquor excise tax shall be made to municipalities that in the prior fiscal year expended more than two million dollars ($2,000,000) of municipal funds for alcohol treatment and rehabilitation services for street inebriates. The distribution pursuant to this subsection shall be used by the municipality only for the provision of alcohol treatment and rehabilitation services for street inebriates."

     Section 2. APPLICABILITY.--The distribution pursuant to Section 1 of this act applies to revenue earned on a modified accrual basis after June 30, 2009.

     Section 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2009.

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