AN ACT

RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT TRAINING; PROVIDING FOR DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAMS; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

Section 1. DISTRIBUTION OF APPROPRIATION.--

A. Of appropriations made in fiscal year 2004 for development training, up to two-thirds shall be expended in urban communities in the state. At least one-third of the appropriations made in fiscal year 2004 for development training shall be expended in non-urban communities.

B. Up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of money appropriated to the economic development department for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 for in-plant training may be used by the department to administer the development training program.

C. As used in this section:

(1) "non-urban community" means a municipality that is not an urban community or the unincorporated area of a county; and

(2) "urban community" means a municipality with a population of forty thousand or more according to the most recent federal decennial census.

Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.

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