HOUSE BILL 47

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

INTRODUCED BY

Janice E. Arnold-Jones

AN ACT

RELATING TO STATE AGENCY REPORTS; REQUIRING STATE AGENCIES TO SUBMIT REPORTS ELECTRONICALLY TO LEGISLATORS UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUESTED.

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

     Section 1. Section 2-3-14.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1985, Chapter 19, Section 1) is amended to read:

     "2-3-14.1. STATE AGENCIES--REPORTS.--

          A. No state agency shall submit or send to the members of the legislature any material, other than proposed legislation, in excess of five pages.

          B. Nothing in this section shall limit the response of any agency to a direct request of a legislator or group of legislators [nor] or the submission of the executive budget.

          C. All reports to the legislature by a state agency shall be [filed in duplicate with] submitted electronically to the legislative council service, and such reports shall not be subject to the page limitations of this section. The legislative council service shall compile a list of the reports submitted prior to each regular legislative session since the beginning of the previous regular session, listing the title and agency [and]. The legislative council service shall distribute the list [among the] to legislators during the first week of the session.

          D. Any legislator may request any report, including those listed pursuant to Subsection C of this section. Upon such a request, the state agency shall furnish the report to the legislator electronically, unless the legislator specifically requests otherwise.

          E. Compliance by a state agency with Subsection C of this section shall fulfill any requirement of a state agency to report to the legislature, unless the requirement is specifically exempted from the requirements of this section.

          F. No state agency shall submit material bound other than by staples unless the bulk or other qualities of the material require other bindings; provided that, in all cases, the most economical method of binding and packaging shall be used.

          G. For the purposes of this section, "state agency" means any agency, division or instrumentality of the state, but does not include political subdivisions and educational institutions or any of the legislature's [divsions] divisions, instrumentalities or committees."

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