0001|                         HOUSE BILL 345
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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|                        NICK L. SALAZAR
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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 PLAN, DESIGN OR CONSTRUCT A MIDDLE SCHOOL
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0014|     IN ESPANOLA IN RIO ARRIBA COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION;
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0015|     DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|       Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED--APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may issue
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0019|     and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance

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0020|     Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding thirteen million 
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0021|     dollars ($13,000,000) when the state department of public
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0022|     education certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds.  The
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0023|     state board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale of
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0024|     the bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner possible
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0025|     upon a finding by the board that the project has been developed
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0001|     sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the project can
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0002|     proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The state board
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0003|     of finance shall further take the appropriate steps necessary to
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0004|     comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The
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0005|     proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the
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0006|     state department of public education for the purpose of
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0007|     planning, designing or constructing a middle school in the
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0008|     Espanola school district located in Rio Arriba county.  Any
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0009|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0010|     fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0011|     If the state department of public education has not certified
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0012|     the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year
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0013|     1998, the authorization provided in this section shall be void.
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0014|       Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0015|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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