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Nonrecurring Appropriations Dashboard

Tracking one-time state appropriations over time

The Legislature has appropriated billions of dollars in general fund and other revenue for nonrecurring projects to state agencies, higher education institutions, and local governments. This dashboard summarizes prior year spending and requests to be considered at the 2027 legislative session.

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Money already appropriated

Prior Year Spending

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2027 Agency Requests

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Nonrecurring Appropriations Dashboard

Tracking one-time state spending across recent budget bills

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Balances shown reflect data pulled between 8/25/2026 and 9/12/2026. Figures will be updated periodically.
Total expenditure reflects the total amount expended at the end of FY26. If an appropriation was reauthorized for FY27, expenditures made during FY27 will not yet appear in this table.
Balances for higher education institutions are not yet included.

What am I looking at?

Each year the Legislature approves the General Appropriation Act (also called "HB2" or House Bill 2) — the state's main budget bill. Most of that money is recurring: ongoing funding for things like school budgets or state employee salaries that continues year after year. This dashboard tracks a different kind of spending: nonrecurring appropriations — one-time money set aside for a specific purpose, like a building project, a pilot program, or a grant fund, that does not automatically continue into future years.

The goal of this dashboard is to help answer a simple question: for each item, you can see how much was set aside, how much has actually been spent, and how much is left.

  • Section 5 is the part of HB2 that lists individual nonrecurring appropriations by state agency. These are sometimes called special nonrecurring funds.
  • Member Directed GRO-D is a separate part of HB2 used for another set of one-time appropriations. It is tracked here as its own tab, consistent with how it is labeled in the bill. These are legislatively directed funds, sometimes called "junior" funds.
  • Amount Appropriated is the new money set aside in that year's bill. Some items shown here are not new money at all — they simply extend the deadline to spend money appropriated in an earlier year, or amend the language of an earlier appropriation without adding new money. If a bill item is language-only in this way, it is labeled as a reauthorization rather than a new appropriation, and may show no new "Amount Appropriated" figure, which is expected, not an error.
  • Amount Budgeted reflects the total pool of money actually available to spend, which can include money carried over from prior years. For items labeled as a reauthorization — language-only bills with no new appropriation — Amount Budgeted reflects that carried-over pool rather than new money.
  • Unspent Balance is the portion of the budgeted amount that has not yet been spent (Amount Budgeted minus Amount Expended).
  • Percent Spent is the share of the appropriated amount that has been expended so far.
  • A small number of line items in the underlying data have missing or broken figures — shown as "FAILED," or as data not available in the Statewide Human Resources Accounting System (SHARE), the state's accounting system. These are kept visible in the tables below for transparency, but are left out of the charts and totals since they cannot be reliably counted.
  • Balances for higher education institutions (e.g. individual universities and colleges) are not yet included in this dashboard; that data could not be acquired in time for this version. Items under the Higher Education Department shown here reflect that department's own appropriations, not individual institutions.

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Source: New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee. Data reflects balances pulled between 8/25/2026 and 9/12/2026, and will be updated periodically. Higher education institution balances are not yet included; that data could not be acquired in time.

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Nonrecurring Appropriations Dashboard

Tracking requests for one-time appropriations for the 2027 legislative session

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Requests shown reflect data pulled on Sept. 17. Requests will be updated periodically.

Supplemental and Deficiency requests are incomplete. Final requests will not be available until Oct. 30.

Language Only and Reauthorization requests are incomplete. Final requests will not be available until Oct. 30.

Higher education institutions requests are not yet available.

What am I looking at?

Each year, state agencies and higher education institutions request nonrecurring funding for inclusion in the state's budget bill, the General Appropriation Act, also called House Bill 2.

Section 5 of the General Appropriation Act includes nonrecurring funding for agency projects, pilot programs, or other one-time expenses. Most requests are for one year, but some request authority to spend a larger appropriation over several fiscal years.

Section 6 includes both supplemental and deficiency appropriations. Supplemental appropriations provide agencies with additional funds in the current fiscal year while deficiency appropriations cover the expenditures from prior fiscal years.

Section 7 includes information technology projects funded through the Department of Information Technology's project certification process. Nonfederal appropriations in this section are typically from the computer systems enhancement fund, which is seeded with an annual transfer for projects from the general fund.

Section 9 includes three-year pilot project appropriations from the government results and opportunity fund. This fund provides state agencies with a funding source for pilot projects with the goal of monitoring and evaluating the results of the project before building funding for the programs into agency operating budgets.

Section 10 includes fund transfers, typically from the general fund to restricted funds within state agencies. Sometimes, these transfers align with appropriations made from other state funds in Section 5 or other legislation or are made to funds that have statutory provisions allowing the agency to budget those funds.

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Source: Legislative Finance Committee. Data is requests entered by agencies into the state's budget and finance management system.