SENATE BILL 212

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2016

INTRODUCED BY

Michael S. Sanchez

AN ACT

RELATING TO TAXATION; EXTENDING THE DATE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUOR EXCISE TAX REVENUE TO THE LOTTERY TUITION 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 OF LIQUOR EXCISE TAX--LOCAL DWI GRANT FUND--CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES--LOTTERY TUITION FUND.--

          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 the following percentages of the net receipts attributable to the liquor excise tax:

                (1) prior to July 1, 2015, forty-one and one-half percent;

                (2) from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018, forty-six percent; and

                (3) on and after July 1, 2018, forty-one and one-half percent.

          B. 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.

          C. From July 1, 2015 through June 30, [2017] 2019, a distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 of thirty-nine percent of the net receipts attributable to the liquor excise tax shall be made to the lottery tuition fund."

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