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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR J. Campos
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2-23-07
HB 1208
SHORT TITLE Irrigation District Board Memberships
SB
ANALYST Woods
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
NFI
NFI
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Office of the State Engineer (OSE)
No Response Received From
Office of the Attorney General (AGO)
New Mexico Association of Counties
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 1208 seeks to amend section 73-10-5 NMSA by adding a header to the section,
putting in letters to break out the major topics and a few minor grammatical changes. OSE notes
that this legislation does not substantially change the existing language other than in two
sections. The first is on line 8 of page 2 where the words “in all" are removed, and the last
phrase of the bill, which allows districts composed of less than twenty-five thousand acres to
vote to increase the number of directors and divisions of the district to five as opposed to the
standard three. There is no appropriation attached to this legislation.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
OSE indicates that, with regard to the section mentioned above, where the words “in all" were
stricken, there is an added layer of ambiguity in the language in that now it is unclear how long
the directors can adjourn an examination. The existing language says that the directors may