HOUSE BILL 645

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2019

INTRODUCED BY

Harry Garcia and Rodolpho "Rudy" S. Martinez

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT NAVAL PROGRAMS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND OUTREACH.

 

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the veterans' services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2020 to educate the people of New Mexico about the missions, history, accomplishments and work of the submarines USS New Mexico, SSN-779, and USS Santa Fe, SSN-763, and the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40; to recognize naval programs; to provide travel expenses for naval and marine reserve officer training corps units attending competitions in New Mexico; to recognize important naval historical items; and to seek to name a naval warship after Los Alamos county. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2020 shall revert to the general fund.

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