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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Altimirano
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2-10-2007
HB
SHORT TITLE New Deal 75th Anniversary
SB 806
ANALYST Dearing
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$60.0 Nonrecurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Cultural Affairs Department (CAD)
Public Education Department (PED)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Bill 806 appropriates $60 thousand from the general fund for expenditure in FY08 to
department of Cultural Affairs for activities related to the commemoration of the seventy-fifth
anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $60 thousand contained in Senate Bill 806 is a nonrecurring expense to the
General Fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall
revert to the General Fund.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
The 75th anniversary of the creation of the various New Deal programs under President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1943 will be celebrated nationwide from March 31, 2008
through March 31, 2009. It is the Cultural Affairs department’s understanding that funding
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identified in this bill would be used for planning and coordinating activities for the 75th
anniversary of the New Deal programs with local, state and national organizations statewide to
make certain that all agencies and communities will be involved in this important
commemoration.
Laborers, Artists and others were employed by New Deal programs such as the Works Progress
Administration (WPA) in the 1930’s and would have otherwise been idle and impoverished. The
accomplishments of this undertaking greatly expanded the country’s federal infrastructure,
public buildings and created a legacy of public arts projects.
The State of New Mexico, with its rural population, was particularly assisted through New Deal
programs aimed at arts, crafts and grass-roots agricultural and livestock development efforts.
Other New Deal undertakings around the State include the Elephant Butte Dam and hydro-
electric plant, recreational structures at Bandelier National Monument and Carlsbad Caverns, and
the Conchas Dam.
New Mexico is home to an extensive collection of Works Progress Administration artworks in its
public buildings. Public buildings such as the Carrie Tingley hospital and others, in addition to
post-offices and university buildings throughout the State contain artwork from during this
period. Many of New Mexico’s well-know artists such as Allen Houser and Pablita Velarde
made significant contributions to public artworks during the period.
PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS
The Public Education department states that the program implementation that would occur with
the funding in Senate Bill 806 would support the implementation of the K-12 Social Studies
Content Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Standards as well as the K-12 Language Arts
Content Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Standards, and the K-12 Arts Standards.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
Cultural Affairs department states that the necessary administrative infrastructure to implement
this program is already in place.
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