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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 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."
Section 3. A new section of the Tourism Department Act
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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 on the committee for the remainder of an unexpired
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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
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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.