0001|                         HOUSE BILL 743
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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|                        LYNDA M. LOVEJOY
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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 FOR SENIOR CITIZEN CENTERS IN SANDOVAL AND
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0014|     MCKINLEY COUNTIES; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN
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0015|     EMERGENCY.
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0016|     
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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--PURPOSES FOR WHICH 
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0019|     ISSUED--APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--
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0020|            A.  The state board of finance may issue and sell
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0021|     severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance Tax Bonding
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0022|     Act in an amount not exceeding nine hundred thousand dollars
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0023|     ($900,000) when the state agency on aging certifies the need for
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0024|     the issuance of the bonds.  The state board of finance shall
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0025|     schedule the issuance and sale of the bonds in the most
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0001|     expeditious and economical manner possible upon a finding by the
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0002|     board that the project has been developed sufficiently to
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0003|     justify the issuance and that the project can proceed to
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0004|     contract within a reasonable time.  The state board of finance
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0005|     shall further take the appropriate steps necessary to comply
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0006|     with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The
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0007|     proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the
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0008|     state agency on aging in the following amounts for the following
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0009|     purposes:
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0010|                 (1)  two hundred fifty thousand dollars
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0011|     ($250,000) to design, construct and equip a new Ojo Encino
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0012|     senior citizen center in Sandoval county;
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0013|                 (2)  four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) to
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0014|     design, construct and equip a new Dalton pass senior citizen
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0015|     center in McKinley county; and
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0016|                 (3)  two hundred fifty thousand dollars
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0017|     ($250,000) to design, construct and equip an addition to the
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0018|     Crownpoint senior citizen center building in McKinley county, to
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0019|     be used as the eastern state agency on aging office.
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0020|            B.  If the state agency on aging has not certified
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0021|     the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year
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0022|     1998, the authorization provided in this section shall be void. 
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0023|     Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining from the
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0024|     proceeds of severance tax bonds issued pursuant to Subsection A
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0025|     of this section at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to
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0001|     the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0002|       Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0003|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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