FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
                        SECOND SESSION, 1998
  
  
                                                 February 6, 1998
  
  
  Mr. Speaker:
  
       Your TAXATION AND REVENUE COMMITTEE, to whom has
  been referred
  
                        HOUSE BILL 21
  
  has had it under consideration and reports same with
  recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
  
       1.  On page 1, line 14, after "CREATING" strike the
  remainder of the line and strike line 15 up to the semicolon
  and insert in lieu thereof "A FUND".
  
       2.  On page 1, strike lines 19 through 25, and on page 2,
  strike lines 1 through 19 and insert in lieu thereof:
  
       "Section 1.  Section 34-2-5 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1933,
  Chapter 81, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
  
       "34-2-5.  FEES--COLLECTION BY SUPREME COURT CLERK.--The
  clerk of the supreme court shall collect the following fees:
  
            A.  in all cases docketed in the court, except those
  in which statutory exemption exists and those in which the
  court on showing of poverty may, by order, waive the fee, one
  hundred twenty-five dollars ($125), twenty-five dollars
  ($25.00) of which shall be deposited in the court automation
  fund and ninety-six dollars ($96.00) of which shall be
  deposited in the court facilities fund; provided that in cases
  in which a skeleton transcript may be filed for the purpose of
  a motion to docket and affirm, the fee shall be twenty dollars
  ($20.00), ten dollars ($10.00) of which shall be deposited in
  the court automation fund and ten dollars ($10.00) of which
  shall be deposited in the court facilities fund;
  
            B.  for one copy of files or a record, ten cents
  ($.10) per folio and for additional copies ordered at the same
  time, five cents ($.05) per folio;
  
  
  
  
  
            C.  for comparing copies of files or records
  tendered to him, five cents ($.05) per folio; and
  
            D.  for each certificate, one dollar ($1.00)."".
  
       3.  On page 3, line 2, after "fund" insert "and one
  hundred dollars ($100) of which shall be deposited in the
  court facilities fund".
  
       4.  On page 3, line 7, after "fund" insert "and ten
  dollars ($10.00) of which shall be deposited in the court
  facilities fund".
  
       5.  On page 3, lines 21 and 22, strike the brackets and
  line-through and strike "court facilities".
  
       6.  On page 4, between lines 11 and 12, insert "Proceeds
  from this docket fee shall be transferred to the
  administrative office of the courts for deposit in the court
  facilities fund.".
  
       7.  On page 9, strike Section 6 in its entirety. 
  
       8.  Renumber the succeeding sections accordingly.
  
       9.  On page 13, line 9, after "D." strike the remainder
  of the line, strike all of lines 10 through 13 and strike line
  14 through the period and insert in lieu thereof:
  
       "At the end of each fiscal year, any money remaining in
  the special bond fund or account, after all principal,
  interest and other expenses or obligations related to the
  bonds in that fiscal year are fully paid and after an amount
  not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) per year
  from the annual lease and rental revenues anticipated to be
  deposited in the court facilities fund is retained in that
  fund or account, shall be transferred to the general fund.".
  
       10.  On page 13, line 21, before the period insert "and
  to transfer the money from the court facilities fund to the
  general fund".,
  
  
  
  
  
  and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE
  COMMITTEE.
  
                                Respectfully submitted,
  
  
  
                                                                 
                                                              Jerry W. Sandel, Chairman
  
  
                                     Adopted                            Not Adopted                         
            (Chief Clerk)                      (Chief Clerk)
  
                        Date                
  
  The roll call vote was  7  For  0  Against
  Yes:      7
            Excused:  Lovejoy, Lujan, Porter, Russell, Sandel
                 Abstained:     Stell
            Absent:   None
  
  
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