44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

RELATING TO PUBLIC PURCHASES; AMENDING PROCUREMENT CODE EXCLUSIONS FROM CENTRAL PURCHASING REQUIREMENTS.

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

Section 1. Section 13-1-99 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1984, Chapter 65, Section 72, as amended) is amended to read:

"13-1-99. EXCLUDED FROM CENTRAL PURCHASING THROUGH THE STATE PURCHASING AGENT.--Excluded from the requirement of procurement through the state purchasing agent but not from the requirements of the Procurement Code are the following:

A. procurement of professional services;

B. small purchases having a value not exceeding [two hundred fifty dollars ($250)] five hundred dollars ($500);

C. emergency procurement;

D. procurement of highway construction or reconstruction by the state highway and transportation department;

E. procurement by the judicial branch of state government;

F. procurement by the legislative branch of state government;

G. procurement by the boards of regents of state educational institutions named in Article 12, Section 11 of the constitution of New Mexico;

[H. procurement of information processing resources procured through the commission on information and communication management;

I.] H. procurement by the state fair commission of tangible personal property, services and construction under five thousand dollars ($5,000);

[J.] I. purchases from the instructional material fund;

[K.] J. procurement by all local public bodies;

[L.] K. procurement by regional education cooperatives; and

[M.] L. procurement by each state health care institution that provides direct patient care and that is, or a part of which is, medicaid certified and participating in the New Mexico medicaid program."