0001|               SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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0002|                           SENATE BILL 395
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0003|     43rd legislature -  STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 1998
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0011|                                AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE; CREATING
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0013|     A JOINT LEGISLATIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEREGULATION INTERIM
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0014|     COMMITTEE; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE CREATED--
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0018|     TERMINATION.--The "telecommunications deregulation interim
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0019|     committee" is created as a joint interim legislative
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0020|     committee.  The committee shall function from the date of its
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0021|     appointment until December 1 prior to the first session of the
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0022|     forty-fourth legislature.
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0023|          Section 2.  MEMBERSHIP--APPOINTMENT--VACANCIES.--
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0024|               A.  The telecommunications deregulation interim
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0025|     committee shall be composed of eight members.  Four members of
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<center>- 1 -</center>0001|     the house of representatives shall be appointed by the speaker
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0002|     of the house of representatives, and four members of the
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0003|     senate shall be appointed by the committees' committee of the
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0004|     senate or, if the senate appointments are made in the interim,
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0005|     by the president pro tempore of the senate after consultation
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0006|     with and agreement of a majority of the members of the
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0007|     committees' committee.
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0008|               B.  Members shall be appointed from each house so
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0009|     as to give the two major political parties in each house the
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0010|     same proportional representation on the committee as prevails
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0011|     in each house; however, in no event shall either party have
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0012|     less than one member from each house on the committee. 
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0013|     Vacancies on the committee shall be filled by appointment in
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0014|     the same manner as the original appointments.  The chairman
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0015|     and vice chairman of the committee shall be elected by the
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0016|     committee.
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0017|               C.  No action shall be taken by the committee if a
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0018|     majority of the total membership from either house on the
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0019|     committee rejects such action.
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0020|          Section 3.  DUTIES.--After its appointment, the
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0021|     telecommunications deregulation interim committee shall hold
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0022|     one organizational meeting to develop a work plan and budget
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0023|     for the ensuing interim.  The work plan and budget shall be
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0024|     submitted to the New Mexico legislative council for approval. 
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0025|     Upon approval of the work plan and budget by the legislative
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<center>- 2 -</center>0001|     council, the committee shall examine the statutes,
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0002|     constitutional provisions, regulations and court decisions
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0003|     governing the telecommunications industry and deregulation
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0004|     activity in New Mexico and recommend legislation or changes if
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0005|     any are found to be necessary to the first session of the
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0006|     forty-fourth legislature.
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0007|          Section 4.  SUBCOMMITTEES.--Subcommittees shall be created
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0008|     only by majority vote of all members appointed to the
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0009|     telecommunications deregulation interim committee and with the
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0010|     prior approval of the New Mexico legislative council.  A
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0011|     subcommittee shall be composed of at least one member from the
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0012|     senate and one member from the house of representatives, and at
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0013|     least one member of the minority party shall be a member of the
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0014|     subcommittee.  All meetings and expenditures of a subcommittee
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0015|     shall be approved by the full committee in advance of such
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0016|     meeting or expenditure, and the approval shall be shown in the
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0017|     minutes of the committee.
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0018|          Section 5.  REPORT.--The telecommunications deregulation
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0019|     interim committee shall make a report of its findings and
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0020|     recommendations for the consideration of the first session of the
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0021|     forty-fourth legislature.  The report and suggested legislation
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0022|     shall be made available to the New Mexico legislative council on
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0023|     or before December 15 preceding that session.
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0024|          Section 6.  STAFF.--The staff for the telecommunications
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0025|     deregulation interim committee shall be provided by the
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<center>- 3 -</center>0001|     legislative council service.
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0002|          Section 7.  APPROPRIATION.--For the purpose of paying the
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0003|     salaries and expenses of the technical, legal, clerical and
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0004|     stenographic assistants, including necessary expert witness
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0005|     testimony, for necessary equipment and supplies used in carrying
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0006|     out the provisions of this act and for reimbursing the per diem
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0007|     and mileage expenses of the telecommunications deregulation
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0008|     interim committee, there is appropriated to the legislative
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0009|     council service from the general fund the sum of seventy-five
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0010|     thousand dollars ($75,000).  All or any part of this
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0011|     appropriation may be expended in fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and
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0012|     any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0013|     fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the general fund.  Payments from
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0014|     the appropriation shall be made upon vouchers signed by the
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0015|     director of the legislative council service or his authorized
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0016|     representative.
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0017|          Section 8.  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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