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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Lujan, A.
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2/3/2006
HB 371
SHORT TITLE State Historian NM History Web Site
SB
ANALYST McOlash
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY06
FY07
$500.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates: SB361
Relates to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)
State Records Center and Archives (SRCA)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 371 appropriates $500,000 from the General Fund to the State Commission of Public
Records (SCPR) for expenditure in FY 2007 for the Office of the New Mexico State Historian’s
New Mexico history web site to enhance content development for the existing site.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund. Content
development should be an on-going activity.
Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2007 shall revert to the
General Fund.
The bill would provide continuing funding for content development for the NM history website.
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The agency currently has a $38.0 special appropriation for content development and enhance-
ment of the website, which builds on the design work done with previous appropriations. With-
out an additional special appropriation, content development would be slowed considerably since
it would fall to the two existing staff of the Office of the State Historian. Given their other re-
sponsibilities, the time they would have to devote to content development would inevitably be
limited.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
The New Mexico History Web Site (
http://www.newmexicohistory.org/
) provided the following
information:
This site is in phase one of design and content development. Content is being added
continually so please visit often.
Website Design & Production
Freelance Farm
Logo Design
Maria Levy for Freelance Farm
Introductory sounds, words, and music courtesy of Jack Loeffler
Content Developers
Matthew J. Martinez; Kimberly M. Suina; Dr. Michael Anne Sullivan; Dr. Suzanne Stamatov;
Jack Loeffler; Dr. Dennis P. Trujillo and Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez.
Funding
The New Mexico History Web Project is made possible through the financial support of:
The New Mexico State Legislature
The Commission of Public Records/State Records Center and Archives
The Friends of New Mexico History Foundation
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
Was funding for this project included in the State records Center and Archives budget request for
FY 2007.
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