HOUSE BILL 16

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2014

INTRODUCED BY

Carl Trujillo

AN ACT

RELATING TO TAXATION; INCREASING THE PERCENTAGE OF THE LIQUOR EXCISE TAX DISTRIBUTED TO THE LOCAL DWI GRANT FUND.

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, exclusive of penalties and interest, attributable to the liquor excise tax.

          B. For fiscal year 2016, 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 fifty and fifty-hundredths percent of the net receipts, exclusive of penalties and interest, attributable to the liquor excise tax.

          C. For fiscal year 2017, 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 fifty-nine and fifty-hundredths percent of the net receipts, exclusive of penalties and interest, attributable to the liquor excise tax.

          D. For fiscal year 2018 and subsequent fiscal years, 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 sixty-eight and fifty-hundredths percent of the net receipts, exclusive of penalties and interest, attributable to the liquor excise tax.

          [B.] E. A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 of twenty thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($20,750) monthly from the net receipts attributable to the liquor excise tax shall be made to a municipality that is located in a class A county and that has a population according to the most recent federal decennial census of more than thirty thousand but less than sixty thousand. 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. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2015.

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