HOUSE BILL 251

44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

INTRODUCED BY

Luciano "Lucky" Varela





AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE TOURISM DEPARTMENT.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--

A. Four million nine hundred thousand dollars ($4,900,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the tourism department for expenditure in fiscal year 2001 in the following amounts for the following purposes:

(1) two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for general advertising;

(2) one million sixty-five thousand dollars ($1,065,000) for co-op advertising;

(3) six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($650,000) for inquiry fulfillment;

(4) four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000) for regional programs;

(5) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for research and accountability;

(6) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for trade show programs;

(7) forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) for printing of a museums and monuments fulfillment brochure;

(8) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for printing state park brochures; and

(9) fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for updating and reprinting the access New Mexico guide.

B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall revert to the general fund.

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