0001|                           SENATE BILL 734
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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|                           RAMSAY L. GORHAM
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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 A NEW COMPUTER NETWORK SYSTEM FOR THE
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0013|     DENNIS CHAVEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN ALBUQUERQUE IN BERNALILLO
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0014|     COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0018|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may
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0019|     issue and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the
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0020|     Severance Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding seventy
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0021|     thousand dollars ($70,000) when the state department of public
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0022|     education certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds. 
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0023|     The state board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale
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0024|     of the bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner
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0025|     possible upon a finding by the board that the project has been
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0001|     developed sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the
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0002|     project can proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The
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0003|     state board of finance shall further take the appropriate steps
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0004|     necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
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0005|     amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are
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0006|     appropriated to the state department of public education for
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0007|     the purpose of purchasing and installing a new computer network
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0008|     system, including wiring, at Dennis Chavez elementary school
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0009|     located in Albuquerque in Bernalillo county.  Any unexpended or
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0010|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000
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0011|     shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund.  If the state
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0012|     department of public education has not certified the need for
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0013|     the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year 1999, the
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0014|     authorization provided in this section shall be void.
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0015|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0016|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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