HOUSE BILL 43

49th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first special session, 2009

INTRODUCED BY

Gloria C. Vaughn

AN ACT

RELATING TO THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2009; ENACTING A NEW SECTION TO REDUCE GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS FOR ADVERTISING AND MARKETING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010.

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

     Section 1. A new section of the General Appropriation Act of 2009 is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] APPROPRIATION REDUCTION TO ADVERTISING AND MARKETING BUDGET.--The amounts set out under the general fund column in Section 4 of the General Appropriation Act of 2009 are reduced as follows, rounded to the nearest one hundred dollars ($100):

          A. in Subsection D, Commerce and Industry, the tourism department's marketing and promotion program funded by the general fund is reduced by fifty percent; and

          B. in Subsection D, Commerce and Industry, the tourism department's cooperative advertising program funded by the general fund is reduced by six hundred eighty thousand dollars ($680,000)."

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