HOUSE BILL 1

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

INTRODUCED BY

Larry A. Larrañaga

AN ACT

RELATING TO CERTAIN GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS; APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE EXPENSE OF THE FIFTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, SECOND SPECIAL SESSION, 2016; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

     SECTION 1. SPECIAL SESSION--APPROPRIATION.--

          A. The following amounts are appropriated from the legislative cash balances for expenditure in fiscal year 2017 for the following expenses of the second special session of the fifty-second legislature:

                (1) for the expense of the house of representatives, seventy-nine thousand dollars ($79,000) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the speaker and the chief clerk of the house of representatives or the chief clerk's designee;

                (2) for the expense of the senate, fifty-three thousand four hundred dollars ($53,400) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the chair of the committees' committee and the chief clerk of the senate or the chief clerk's designee; and

                (3) for the expense of the legislative council service and the joint bill room, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the director of the legislative council service or the director's designee.

          B. Following adjournment of the second special session of the fifty-second legislature, expenditures authorized in this section shall be disbursed on vouchers signed by the director of the legislative council service or the director's designee.

     SECTION 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.

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