FORTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION

March 5, 2009

SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENT number ___2___ toSENATE BILL 336

Amendment sponsored by Senator

    1. On page 1, between lines 17 and 18, insert the following new section:

    "Section 1. Section 6-6-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1957, Chapter 250, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

    "6-6-1. DEFINITIONS.--"Local public body" means every political subdivision of the state [which] that expends public money from whatever source derived, including but not limited to counties, county institutions, boards, bureaus or commissions; incorporated cities, towns or villages; drainage, conservancy, irrigation or [their] other districts; charitable institutions for which an appropriation is made by the legislature; and every office or officer of any of the above. "Local public body" does not include a mutual domestic water consumers association, a land grant, an incorporated municipality or a special district with an annual revenue, exclusive of capital outlay funds, federal or private grants or capital outlay funds disbursed directly by an administrating agency, of less then ten thousand dollars

($10,000), nor county, municipal, consolidated, union or rural school districts and their officers or irrigation districts organized under Sections [75-23-1 through 75-23-45 New Mexico Statutes Annotated, 1953 Compilation] 73-10-1 through 73-10-47 NMSA 1978."". 

    2. Renumber the succeeding sections accordingly.

    3. On page 3, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following new paragraph:

             "(1) less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and does not directly expend at least fifty percent of, or the remainder of, a single capital outlay award, it is exempt from submitting and filing quarterly reports and final budgets for approval to the local government division of the department of finance and administration and from any financial reporting to the state auditor;".

    4. Renumber the succeeding paragraphs accordingly.

    5. On page 3, line 20, before "less", insert "at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000) but".

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