HOUSE BILL 137

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2020

INTRODUCED BY

Derrick J. Lente and D. Wonda Johnson and

Anthony Allison and Patricia Roybal Caballero

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE INDIAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT FOR LIBRARY, INTERNET ACCESS AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER PROJECTS FOR INDIAN NATIONS, TRIBES AND PUEBLOS.

 

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--

          A. An aggregate total of fifty-nine million one hundred ninety-three thousand one hundred twenty-two dollars ($59,193,122) is appropriated from the general fund to the Indian affairs department for expenditure in fiscal years 2020 through 2024 for the following purposes:

                (1) thirty-eight million eight hundred ninety-three thousand one hundred twenty-two dollars ($38,893,122) to plan, design, renovate, expand, construct, equip and furnish libraries statewide for Indian nations, tribes and pueblos as follows:

                     (a) the Pueblo of Acoma in Cibola county, four million five hundred thousand dollars ($4,500,000);

                     (b) the Pueblo of Cochiti in Sandoval county, nine hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($975,000);

                     (c) the Pueblo of Isleta in Bernalillo, Torrance and Valencia counties, five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000);

                     (d) the Pueblo of Jemez in Sandoval county, two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000);

                     (e) the Pueblo of Laguna in Bernalillo, Cibola and Sandoval counties, six hundred fifty-eight thousand one hundred twenty-two dollars ($658,122);

                     (f) the Pueblo of Nambe in Santa Fe county, one million one hundred thousand dollars ($1,100,000);

                     (g) Ohkay Owingeh in Rio Arriba county, one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000);

                     (h) the Pueblo of Picuris in Taos county, one million one hundred thousand dollars ($1,100,000);

                     (i) the Pueblo of Pojoaque in Santa Fe county, one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000);

                     (j) the Pueblo of Sandia in Sandoval and Bernalillo counties, nine hundred ten thousand dollars ($910,000);

                     (k) the Pueblo of San Felipe in Sandoval county, two million dollars ($2,000,000);

                     (l) the Pueblo of San Ildefonso in Santa Fe county, five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000);

                     (m) the Pueblo of Santa Ana in Sandoval county, one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000);

                     (n) the Pueblo of Santa Clara in Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Sandoval counties, two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000);

                     (o) the Pueblo of Santo Domingo in Sandoval county, three million dollars ($3,000,000);

                     (p) the Pueblo of Taos in Taos county, two million dollars ($2,000,000);

                     (q) the Pueblo of Tesuque in Santa Fe county, one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000);

                     (r) the Pueblo of Zia in Sandoval county, one million one hundred thousand dollars ($1,100,000);

                     (s) the Pueblo of Zuni in McKinley county, four million five hundred thousand dollars ($4,500,000);

                     (t) the Torreon-Star Lake chapter of the Navajo Nation in Sandoval county, one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000);

                     (u) the Jicarilla Apache Nation in Rio Arriba county, six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($650,000); and

                     (v) the Mescalero Apache Tribe in Otero county, three million dollars ($3,000,000);

                (2) four million six hundred thousand dollars ($4,600,000) to provide matching funds to federal grants for high-speed internet access and telecommunications for schools and libraries and support for the pueblo education network that will provide an advanced communication network to connect all tribal educational entities to the pueblo education network and security operations and data center at the Santa Fe Indian school through a fiber optic broadband infrastructure;

                (3) three million two hundred thousand dollars ($3,200,000) for high-speed internet access on the Navajo Nation;

                (4) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for high-speed internet access on the Jicarilla Apache Nation in Rio Arriba and Sandoval counties;

                (5) two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for a curriculum materials development center at Navajo technical university in Crownpoint in McKinley county;

                (6) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for an early childhood practicum at Navajo technical university in McKinley county;

                (7) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for a curriculum materials development center at the Pueblo of Zuni in McKinley county;

                (8) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for a curriculum materials development center for the Mescalero Apache Tribe in Otero county;

                (9) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for education resource centers for the Dzil Ditl'looi school of empowerment, action and perseverance charter school on the Navajo Nation in McKinley county; and

                (10) two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for an education resource center and one million dollars ($1,000,000) for an early childhood center at the Pueblo of Jemez in Sandoval county.

          B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance of an

appropriation made for a project pursuant to this section shall

revert to the tribal infrastructure project fund within six months of completion of the project, but no later than fiscal year 2024.

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