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

SPONSOR HBIC

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/9/08

HM 32/HBICS

SHORT TITLE Support Santa Fe Regional Telecom Coalition

SB

ANALYST Cox

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY08

FY09

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Committee Substitute Memorial 32 is very similar to the Original HB 32. The changes

revolve around the Agency that will carry out this Committee Substitute Memorial.

This Committee Substitute Memorial contemplates that the Governor’s Science and Technology

advisor be primarily responsible for the implementation of this Memorial. In the original

Memorial, the Public Regulations Commission (PRC) received the primary responsibility for the

implementation of the original Memorial.

Thus, the Governor’s Science and Technology Advisor will have primary responsibility for the

implementation of this Memorial.

The PRC has been relieved of any duty related to this Committee Substitute Memorial.

The Committee Substitute Memorial has also removed classifying the Santa Fe Community

College as the ‘primary node’

on the New Mexico lamba railway connection for the Santa Fe

regional telecommunications coalition region. The new wording classifies The Santa Fe

Community College as “a connection"

to the New Mexico lamba rail for the Santa Fe regional

telecommunications coalition. Underlining was added by LFC analyst.

House Memorial 32/HBICS – Page

2

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The New Committee Substitute for House Memorial 32 has no financial impact.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The Santa Fe regional telecommunications coalition was created to organize primary

telecommunications bandwidth users in the Santa Fe region with participation from Santa Fe

County, the city of Santa Fe, Santa Fe Community College and the University of New Mexico-

New Mexico Lambda Rail.

Enhanced telecommunications infrastructure meets regional and local economic development

goals, enhancement of regional emergency services, e-government, telehealth, education and

research opportunities and improved quality of life for the Santa Fe region.

The Santa Fe regional telecommunications coalition is a model for regional telecommunications

infrastructure initiatives that can be adopted by other regions, counties and municipalities and

support for this model would benefit both the Santa Fe region and the State of New Mexico

The House Memorial 32 substitute requests that the Department of Information Technology:

•

facilitate the work of the Santa Fe Regional Telecommunications Coalition;

•

support the Santa Fe Regional Telecommunications Coalition’s efforts to gain access to

the New Mexico Lambda Rail telecommunications infrastructure;

•

work with the Santa Fe Regional Telecommunications Coalition to arrange for the

installation of a gateway to the New Mexico Computing Applications Center at Santa Fe

Community College as a primary node on the New Mexico lambda rail connection for the

Santa Fe Regional Telecommunications Coalition region; and

•

copies of the original memorial be sent to:

The Commissioners of the Public Regulation Commission, The Secretary of Information

Technology, The Governor’s Science and Technology Advisor, The New Mexico

Computing Applications Center at Santa Fe Community College and The Santa Fe

Regional Telecommunications Coalition.

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