0001|                        SENATE BILL 334
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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|                          PETE CAMPOS
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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 RENOVATE AND MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
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0014|     INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY BUILDING AT NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS
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0015|     UNIVERSITY LOCATED IN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY; MAKING AN
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0016|     APPROPRIATION; 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 five hundred thousand
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0022|     dollars ($500,000) when the board of regents of New Mexico
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0023|     highlands university certifies the need for the issuance of the
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0024|     bonds.  The state board of finance shall schedule the issuance
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0025|     and sale of the bonds in the most expeditious and economical
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0001|     manner possible upon a finding by the board that the project has
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0002|     been 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 highlands
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0008|     university for the purpose of renovating and making improvements
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0009|     to the industrial education technology building on the New
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0010|     Mexico highlands university campus located in San Miguel county. 
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0011|     Any 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 highlands university has
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0014|     not certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end
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0015|     of 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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0022|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0023|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0001|                                              JANUARY 26, 1996
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0003|   Mr. President:
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0005|     Your COMMITTEES' COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0006|   
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0007|                           SENATE BILL 334
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0008|   
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0009|   has had it under consideration and finds same to be GERMANE, PURSUANT
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0010|   TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS, and thence referred to the FINANCE
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0011|   COMMITTEE.
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0013|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0018|                              __________________________________
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0019|                              SENATOR MANNY M. ARAGON, Chairman 
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0023|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0024|             (Chief Clerk)                        (Chief Clerk)
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0006|   S0334CC1
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