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| SPONSOR: | Hobbs | DATE TYPED: | 02/23/99 | HB | HCR 1/aHRC/aHFL#1 | ||
| SHORT TITLE: | Amend Joint Rule 3-1 | SB | |||||
| ANALYST: | Burch | ||||||
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| FY99 | FY2000 | FY99 | FY2000 | ||
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(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of House Floor Amendment No. 1
The amendment strikes HRC amendment No. 1, deletes the new text "the conference committee may meet only after reasonable notice of the meeting has been provided to the public by both houses", and inserts the phrase "conducted in meetings" between "conference committee meetings shall be" and "open to the public".
Synopsis of House Rules and Order of Business Committee Amendment
The amendment strikes the word "reasonable" from the type notice given of conference committee meetings and adds discussions related to the purchase, acquisition or disposal of real property or water rights as issues not open to the public.
Synopsis of Bill
The concurrent resolution amends legislative joint rule 3-1 pertaining to conference committees and proposes to make conference committees open meetings to the public, except for discussions of personnel issues or issues related to pending litigation.
TECHNICAL ISSUES
Section 10-15-2(B) NMSA 1978 pertaining to open meetings of the state legislature provides that the open meetings provision in Section 10-15-2(A) NMSA 1978 does not apply to matters relating to personnel, or matters adjudicatory in nature, or any bill resolution or other legislative matter not yet presented to either house of the legislature or general appropriation bill. If conference committee meetings on general appropriation bills were to be open, the Section 10-15-2(B) NMSA 1978 would have to be amended.
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