44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

AMENDING LEGISLATIVE JOINT RULE 9-1 PERTAINING TO THE SCHEDULE OF ENACTMENT OF THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.

WHEREAS, Legislative Joint Rule 8-1 requires that joint rules may be adopted, amended or repealed by concurrent resolution approved by two-thirds of the membership of each house;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN, that the following joint rule be amended as follows:

Enactment of any general appropriation bill shall comply with the following schedule:

A. In the sixty-day regular session, the bill shall have received third reading and final passage in the house of origin no later than the [fortieth] thirty-fifth calendar day of the session. The second house shall have given the bill its third reading and final passage by the fiftieth calendar day of the session. Approval of changes, if any, and transmittal to the governor shall be by the fifty-fourth calendar day of session.

B. In the thirty-day regular session, the bill shall have received third reading and final passage in the house of origin no later than the sixteenth calendar day of the session. The second house shall have given the bill its third reading and final passage by the twenty-first calendar day of the session. Approval of changes, if any, and transmittal to the governor shall be by the twenty-fourth calendar day of the session.

C. For the purpose of this rule, the computation of time shall be as provided in [Subsection G of Section 12-2-2 NMSA 1978] Section 12-2A-7 NMSA 1978.".