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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Cervantes

DATE TYPED 03/01/05 HB HJM 88

SHORT TITLE List Chile As State Vegetable

SB

ANALYST Ford

APPROPRIATION

Appropriation Contained Estimated Additional Impact Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY05

FY06

FY05

FY06

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Joint Memorial 88 makes several findings regarding the popularity, superiority, medici-

nal, addictive, aphrodisiacal and spiritual qualities of the chile plant, Capsicum annuum. The

memorial requests the secretary of state to list the chile plant as the state vegetable in the next

publication of the blue book.

Significant Issues

Chile is already listed in the Blue Book along with New Mexico’s other official state vegetable,

the frijoles (pinto beans of the phaseolus vulgaris family).

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