State of New Mexico
                    House of Representatives
  
                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
  
  
                                               February 2, 1996
  
  
  Mr. Speaker:
  
     Your TAXATION AND REVENUE COMMITTEE, to whom has
  been referred
  
                         HOUSE BILL 298
                                 
  has had it under consideration and reports same with
  recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
  
     1.  On page 4, lines 1 through 6, strike the underscored
  language and insert in lieu thereof:
  
  "Any county that has imposed the second one-eighth increment or the
  third one-eighth increment, or both, on January 1, 1996 for support
  of indigent patients in the county or imposes one or both increments
  after January 1, 1996 shall deposit the revenue from the second one-eighth increment, if enacted and at least one-half of the third one-eighth increment, if enacted in the county indigent hospital claims
  fund and such revenues shall be expended pursuant to the Indigent
  Hospital and County Health Care Act.".,
  
  and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE 
  COMMITTEE.
  
                              Respectfully submitted,
  
  
  
                                                               
                              Jerry W. Sandel, Chairman
  
  
  Adopted                          Not Adopted                       
          (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
  
                       Date             
  
  The roll call vote was 8  For 0  Against
  Yes:         8
  Excused:     Crook, Gonzales, Hawkins, Lovejoy, Sandoval
  Absent: None
  
  
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