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Interior Design Board bill analysis

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 614 would re-authorize the Interior Design Board for six more years, to July 1, 2005, with a one year delayed repeal.

Significant Issues

Unless the board's termination date is extended, the Interior Design Board will have one year to finalize its business. The bill is the result of interim Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) work during the 1998 legislative interim. In accordance with the Sunset Act (Chapter 12, Article 9 NMSA 1978), the LFC is responsible for holding a public hearing prior to the termination of any agency subject to the Sunset Act and is required to submit legislation for continuation of the agency as an amendment to the delayed repeal section covering creation of the agency and its related statutes.

The sunset process is an integral element to legislative oversight that ensures accountability of self-regulating professions and protection of public interests such as interior design. During the 1998 sunset review process, the LFC Sunrise/Sunset subcommittee reviewed the performance of nineteen boards or commissions in serving the public. In each case, the subcommittee discovered that each board or commission was performing a valuable public service and addressing the needs of the constituency its serves directly.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

House Bill 614 does not contain an appropriation.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

Enactment will have no administrative impact.

CONFLICT/DUPLICATION/COMPANIONSHIP/RELATIONSHIP

House Bill 614 duplicates, relating to the Interior Design Board, Senate Bills 341 and 380.

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