HOUSE BILL 121

55th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2021

INTRODUCED BY

Jack Chatfield and Gail Armstrong and Rebecca Dow

and Randal S. Crowder and Martin R. Zamora

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR A STATEWIDE MEAT PROCESSING AND MARKETING PROGRAM.

 

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure in fiscal year 2022 for the New Mexico department of agriculture for a statewide meat processing and marketing program to expand access to beef produced locally and to cooperate with the economic development department to expand local processing of beef and retail opportunities for local beef producers. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2022 shall revert to the general fund.

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