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AN ACT

RELATING TO THE TOURISM DEPARTMENT; CREATING THE SPORTS

AUTHORITY DIVISION OF THE TOURISM DEPARTMENT; DEFINING ITS

POWERS AND DUTIES; CONFORMING THE LAW TO THE CURRENT STRUCTURE

OF THE TOURISM DEPARTMENT; REPEALING THE NEW MEXICO SPORTS

AUTHORITY ACT.

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

Section 1. Section 9-15A-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1991,

Chapter 21, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:

"9-15A-3. DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHED.--The "tourism

department" is created in the executive branch. The

department shall be a cabinet department and shall consist of,

but not be limited to, six divisions as follows:

A. the promotion division;

B. the New Mexico magazine division;

C. the sports authority division;

D. the tourism development division;

E. the marketing division; and

F. the administrative services division."

Section 2. A new section of the Tourism Department Act

is enacted to read:

"DUTIES OF THE SPORTS AUTHORITY DIVISION.--

A. The sports authority division of the department

shall:

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(1) develop an overall strategic plan for

recruiting and retaining all forms of professional and amateur

sporting events;

(2) identify existing infrastructure for

sporting activities, identify and propose future

infrastructure and locations and identify opportunities for

private and public partnerships on infrastructure;

(3) foster relationships between sporting

event organizers and event sponsors; and

(4) foster relationships among state and

local agencies and provide advice and direction needed to

increase the number and quality of sporting events held in New

Mexico.

B. The sports authority division may promulgate

rules as necessary to:

(1) provide additional professional and

amateur sports participation by New Mexico residents;

(2) provide for the welfare of participants

in sporting events;

(3) provide for adequate safety measures for

and ethical operation of sporting events;

(4) recruit and maintain professional and

amateur sporting events to be held in New Mexico; and

(5) address the fiscal and tax implications

of Paragraphs (1) through (4) of this subsection."

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Section 3. A new section of the Tourism Department Act

is enacted to read:

"SPORTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.--

A. The "sports advisory committee" is created to

advise and support the sports authority division of the

department.

B. The sports advisory committee consists of

twenty-five members of the public appointed by the governor

and six ex-officio voting members as follows:

(1) the superintendent of regulation and

licensing;

(2) the secretary of economic development;

(3) the secretary of tourism;

(4) the secretary of taxation and revenue;

(5) the chief counsel to the governor; and

(6) the governor's deputy chief of staff for

legislative affairs.

C. An ex-officio member may designate in writing

another person to attend meetings of the committee and to the

same extent and with the same effect act in the ex-officio

member's stead.

D. Public members shall be appointed for four-year

terms expiring on January 1 and shall serve at the pleasure of

the governor. Members serve until their successors have been

appointed and qualified. The governor may fill any vacancies

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on the committee for the remainder of an unexpired term.

E. The committee shall have two co-chairs

appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be an ex-officio

member and one of whom shall be a public member. The

committee may elect such other officers as it deems necessary

to carry out its duties.

F. Public members of the committee shall receive

per diem and mileage as provided for nonsalaried public

officers in the Per Diem and Mileage Act and shall receive no

other compensation, perquisite or allowance.

G. Representation on the committee shall resemble

the demographics of New Mexico in conjunction with the three

congressional districts."

Section 4. TEMPORARY PROVISION--TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL,

PROPERTY, CONTRACTS AND REFERENCES IN LAW.--On the effective

date of this act:

A. all functions, personnel, appropriations,

money, records, equipment, supplies and other property of the

New Mexico sports authority shall be transferred to the sports

authority division of the tourism department;

B. all contracts of the New Mexico sports

authority shall be binding and effective on the sports

authority division of the tourism department; and

C. all references in law to the New Mexico sports

authority shall be deemed to be references to the sports

authority division of the tourism department.

Section 5. REPEAL.--Sections 9-15B-1 through 9-15B-6

NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2005, Chapter 197, Sections 1 through 6)

are repealed.

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