44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first special session, 1999

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--

A. The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund unless otherwise provided to the specified agencies for expenditure in fiscal year 2000 unless otherwise indicated. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the general fund or other fund unless otherwise provided.

B. One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the state capitol maintenance fund to the legislative council service for the legislative maintenance department to recarpet the public areas of the capitol.

C. Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the supreme court law library for library acquisitions.

D. Seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state personnel office for personal services and employee benefits.

E. Four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the regulation and licensing department as follows:

(1) thirty thousand one hundred dollars ($30,100) to the administrative services division for a financial specialist 2;

(2) thirty-six thousand two hundred dollars ($36,200) to the financial institutions division for a bank examiner 3; and

(3) three hundred thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars ($333,700) to the construction industries division to purchase and install a permit data management system.

F. One hundred thirty thousand dollars ($130,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the forestry division of the energy, minerals and natural resources department for operational expenses in travel, maintenance and repairs, supplies and materials and capital outlay.

G. One million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the income support division of the human services department to increase the rate of reimbursement of physicians, optometrists, podiatrists, psychologists, physical therapists and occupational therapists for services rendered to medicaid patients.

H. Five million six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($5,650,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the computer systems enhancement fund for allocations pursuant to the appropriations in Section 2 of this act.

Section 2. DATA PROCESSING APPROPRIATIONS.--

A. The amounts appropriated in this section are appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund, or other funds as indicated, for the purposes specified. Unless otherwise indicated, the appropriations may be expended in fiscal years 1999 and 2000. Unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balances remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the computer systems enhancement fund or other funds as indicated. The department of finance and administration shall allocate amounts from the funds for the purposes specified upon receiving certification and supporting documentation from the requesting agency that identifies benefits that can be quantified and nonrecurring costs and recurring costs for the development and implementation of the proposed system and, for executive agencies, upon receiving certification from the chief information officer that identifies compliance with the information architecture and individual information and communication systems plans and the statewide information technology strategic plan. If the funds are to continue on a project, the documentation shall include certification and written report by the chief information officer that the project is on schedule, approved project methodology has been followed, independent validation and verification contractor recommendations have been implemented, all funds previously allocated have been properly expended and additional funds are required. All hardware and software purchases funded through the base budget and the information technology funding recommendations shall be procured using consolidated purchasing led by the chief information officer to achieve economies of scale and to provide the state with the best unit price. Appropriations for any development project shall include a turn-key solution with associated warranty that the state's need will be met upon implementation and acceptance of the system. The department of finance and administration shall provide a copy of the certification and all supporting documentation to the legislative finance committee.

B. One million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund and two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from federal funds to the department of finance and administration for the statewide accounting project for the following, contingent on a steering committee being appointed to review, plan, design and implement the integrated accounting system:

(1) one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) from the computer systems enhancement fund and two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) from federal funds for a joint accounting effort among the children, youth and families department, the human services department, the corrections department and the general services department to:

(a) implement a joint accounting system to meet core accounting needs;

(b) provide an extended purchasing module that can be used in agency field offices and by the state purchasing agent; and

(c) implement a graphical user interface and electronic data interfaces between agency management specific systems, field offices and the central financial reporting and accounting system consistent with the strategic plan being developed by the statewide accounting task force; and

(2) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) from the computer systems enhancement fund for consulting services to define integrated accounting system requirements that support the long-range goals of the statewide accounting strategic plan, eliminate duplicate data entry, enhance electronic data interfaces and meet other requirements necessary to make financial data capture and access efficient.

C. One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the public defender department to upgrade the local area network infrastructure.

D. Two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000) is appropriated from the public employees retirement income fund to the public employees retirement association to re-engineer the imaging process and for training, software, hardware upgrade and implementation.

E. Sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the state commission of public records to digitize and image historic and fragile documents for preservation, access and research.

F. Four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the secretary of state for phase one of the voter requirements analysis and design and development of the voter registration and election management system.

G. One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the office of cultural affairs to replace the database server and network infrastructure for the New Mexico cultural resource information system.

H. Four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the energy, minerals and natural resources department to create an electronic document management system to maintain oil and gas technical and regulatory information and records.

I. Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the state engineer for the geographical information system enterprise level spatial data planning and design, technology planning, skills upgrading, application development and re-engineering.

J. One hundred sixty-five thousand dollars ($165,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the state agency on aging for equipment upgrades for the newmapis system in the area agencies on aging.

K. Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund and two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from federal funds to the human services department to obtain and install an agencywide data dictionary to standardize data elements throughout the department.

L. One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from federal funds to the human services department for a statewide feasibility study of vital statistics information to support the income support division imaging and to reduce redundant data requests by the agency.

M. Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund, nine hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($975,000) is appropriated from the employment security department fund and one million nine hundred forty-nine thousand six hundred dollars ($1,949,600) is appropriated from federal funds to the labor department for a comprehensive statewide integrated common in-take database to be shared throughout the department and with other entities, especially those involved with welfare-to-work clients. In addition, one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) is appropriated from the general fund operating reserve, if federal funds are not received.

N. Eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund and eight hundred twenty-seven thousand three hundred dollars ($827,300) is appropriated from federal funds to the department of public safety for the first phase of a computer-aided dispatch to automate the state police dispatching function and to establish regional dispatching centers throughout the state.

O. One hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the state department of public education for the final phase of the student and teacher accountability system to comply with federal and state reporting requirements.

P. One million dollars ($1,000,000) is appropriated from the computer systems enhancement fund to the state department of public education for the computers in the schools program to continue partnership between private industry, state government and eighty-nine school districts to build, distribute and install two thousand five hundred high-end, multimedia computers in public school classrooms.

Q. Four hundred forty thousand dollars ($440,000) is appropriated from state department of public education cash balances to the state department of public education for the final phase of data gathering and reporting, database development and database population of the capital outlay facilities information system for school district facilities.

R. Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) is appropriated from state department of public education cash balances to the state department of public education for a needs assessment of instructional materials automation to determine if a commercial, off-the-shelf product or development of a customized system will fill the needs and be cost-effective.

Section 3. AGREEMENT IMPASSE RESOLUTION.--The state and the state labor coalition reached impasse on December 15, 1998 and, in accordance with the requirements of Paragraph (8) of Subsection A of Section 10-7D-18 NMSA 1978, the legislature, operating through the appropriation process, deems adopted all provisions of the negotiated collective bargaining agreement and includes an expiration date of July 1, 2005 to resolve the impasse over the term of the master collective bargaining agreement, thus concluding the negotiations between the state and the state labor coalition.