HOUSE BILL 131

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2003

INTRODUCED BY

Max Coll





FOR THE WELFARE REFORM OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE



AN ACT

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES; EXTENDING THE LIFE OF THE WELFARE REFORM OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.



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

Section 1. Section 2-17-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1998, Chapter 8, Section 21 and Laws 1998, Chapter 9, Section 21) is amended to read:

"2-17-1. WELFARE REFORM OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CREATED--TERMINATION.--The joint interim legislative "welfare reform oversight committee" is created. The committee shall function from the date of its appointment until December 15 prior to the first session of the [forty-sixth] forty-ninth legislature."

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