0001|                         HOUSE BILL 165
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                       WILLIAM E. PORTER
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0010|     
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0011|                             AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0013|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT AND EQUIP AN ALLIED
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0014|     HEALTH FACILITY AT THE DONA ANA BRANCH OF NEW MEXICO STATE
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0015|     UNIVERSITY IN DONA ANA COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION;
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0016|     DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0017|     
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0018|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0019|       Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED--APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may issue
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0020|     and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance
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0021|     Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding two million dollars
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0022|     ($2,000,000) when the board of regents of New Mexico state
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0023|     university certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds. 
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0024|     The state board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale
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0025|     of the bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner
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0001|     possible upon a finding by the board that the project has been
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0002|     developed sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the
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0003|     project can proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The
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0004|     state board of finance shall further take the appropriate steps
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0005|     necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
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0006|     amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are
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0007|     appropriated to the board of regents of New Mexico state
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0008|     university for the purpose of designing, constructing and
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0009|     equipping an allied health facility at the Dona Ana branch of
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0010|     New Mexico state university located in Dona Ana county.  Any
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0011|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0012|     fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0013|     If the board of regents of New Mexico state university has not
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0014|     certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of
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0015|     fiscal year 1998, the authorization provided in this section
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0016|     shall be void.
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0017|       Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0018|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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