0001|                        SENATE BILL 348
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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 PURCHASE THE MORA SCHOOL BUILDING TO BE
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0014|     USED BY NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY LOCATED IN SAN MIGUEL
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0015|     COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN 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--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 three hundred
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0021|     thousand dollars ($300,000) when the board of regents of New
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0022|     Mexico highlands university certifies the need for the issuance
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0023|     of the bonds.  The state board of finance shall schedule the
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0024|     issuance and sale of the bonds in the most expeditious and
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0025|     economical manner possible upon a finding by the board that the
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0001|     project has been developed sufficiently to justify the issuance
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0002|     and that the project can proceed to contract within a reasonable
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0003|     time.  The state board of finance shall further take the
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0004|     appropriate steps necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue
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0005|     Code of 1986, as amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the
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0006|     bonds are appropriated to the board of regents of New Mexico
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0007|     highlands university for the purpose of purchasing the Mora
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0008|     school building to be used by New Mexico highlands university
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0009|     located in San Miguel county.  Any unexpended or unencumbered
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0010|     balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to
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0011|     the severance tax bonding fund.  If the board of regents of New
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0012|     Mexico highlands university has not certified the need for the
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0013|     issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year 1998, the
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0014|     authorization provided in this section shall be void.
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0015|       Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0016|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0019|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0020|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0023|                                              JANUARY 26, 1996
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0025|   Mr. President:
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0002|     Your COMMITTEES' COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0004|                           SENATE BILL 348
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0006|   has had it under consideration and finds same to be GERMANE, PURSUANT
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0007|   TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS, and thence referred to the FINANCE
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0008|   COMMITTEE.
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0010|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0015|                              __________________________________
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0016|                              SENATOR MANNY M. ARAGON, Chairman 
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0020|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0021|             (Chief Clerk)                        (Chief Clerk)
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0024|                     Date ________________________
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0003|   S0348CC1
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