0001|                           SENATE BILL 606
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            LINDA M. LOPEZ
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0012|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS FOR THE ACQUISITION AND INSTALLATION OF
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0013|     EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOCATED
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0014|     IN BERNALILLO COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN
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0015|     EMERGENCY.
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0016|     
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSES FOR WHICH
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0019|     ISSUED--APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--
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0020|               A.  The state board of finance may issue and sell
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0021|     severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance Tax
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0022|     Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding two hundred thirty-five
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0023|     thousand dollars ($235,000) when the state department of public
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0024|     education certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds. 
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0025|     The state board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale
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0001|     of the bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner
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0002|     possible upon a finding by the board that the project has been
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0003|     developed sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the
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0004|     project can proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The
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0005|     state board of finance shall further take the appropriate steps
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0006|     necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
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0007|     amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are
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0008|     appropriated to the state department of public education in the
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0009|     following amounts for the following purposes in Bernalillo
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0010|     county:
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0011|                    (1)  sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for
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0012|     the purpose of acquiring and installing educational technology
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0013|     for Harrison middle school;
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0014|                    (2)  sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for
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0015|     the purpose of acquiring and installing educational technology
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0016|     for Ernie Pyle middle school;
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0017|                    (3)  sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for
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0018|     the purpose of acquiring and installing educational technology
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0019|     for Truman middle school; and
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0020|                    (4)  forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for the
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0021|     purpose of acquiring and installing educational technology for
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0022|     Polk middle school.
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0023|               B.  If the state department of public education has
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0024|     not certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end
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0025|     of fiscal year 1999, the authorization provided in this section
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0001|     shall be void.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0002|     remaining from the proceeds of severance tax bonds issued
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0003|     pursuant to Subsection A of this section at the end of fiscal
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0004|     year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0005|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0006|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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