0001|                           SENATE BILL 249
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1998
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0004|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                          JOHN ARTHUR SMITH
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0011|                                AN ACT
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0012|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND INITIAL EXPENSES OF THE GAMING
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0013|     CONTROL BOARD AND A SYSTEM OF CONTINUOUS COMPUTER MONITORING
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0014|     OF LICENSED GAMING MACHINES; 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.  APPROPRIATION.--
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0018|               A.  Five million five hundred thousand dollars
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0019|     ($5,500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0020|     gaming control board for expenditure in fiscal year 1999 in
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0021|     the following amounts and for the following purposes:
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0022|                    (1)  two million dollars ($2,000,000) for
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0023|     operational expenses of the gaming control board; and
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0024|                    (2)  three million five hundred thousand
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0025|     dollars ($3,500,000) for capital expenditures required to
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0001|     develop and implement a system of continuous computer
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0002|     monitoring of licensed gaming machines mandated by the Gaming
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0003|     Control Act.
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0004|               B.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0005|     remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the
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0006|     general fund.
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0007|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0008|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0009|     immediately.
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