0001|                         SENATE BILL 99
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                      MARY JANE M. GARCIA
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0011|                             AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0013|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT AND EQUIP A HEALTH AND
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0014|     PUBLIC SERVICE FACILITY AT THE DONA ANA BRANCH OF NEW MEXICO
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0015|     STATE UNIVERSITY IN DONA ANA COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION;
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0016|     DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0017|     
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0018|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0019|       Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED--APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may issue
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0020|     and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance
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0021|     Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding two million dollars
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0022|     ($2,000,000) when the board of regents of New Mexico state
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0023|     university certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds. 
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0024|     The state board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale
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0025|     of the bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner
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0001|     possible upon a finding by the board that the project has been
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0002|     developed sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the
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0003|     project can proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The
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0004|     state board of finance shall further take the appropriate steps
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0005|     necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
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0006|     amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are
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0007|     appropriated to the board of regents of New Mexico state
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0008|     university for the purpose of designing, constructing and
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0009|     equipping a health and public service facility at the Dona Ana
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0010|     branch of New Mexico state university located in Dona Ana
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0011|     county.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the
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0012|     end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the severance tax
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0013|     bonding fund.  If the board of regents of New Mexico state
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0014|     university has not certified the need for the issuance of the
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0015|     bonds by the end of fiscal year 1998, the authorization provided
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0016|     in this section shall be void.
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0017|       Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0018|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0021|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0022|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0025|                                              JANUARY 22, 1996
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0002|   Mr. President:
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0004|     Your COMMITTEES' COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0005|   
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0006|                           SENATE BILL 99
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0007|   
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0008|   has had it under consideration and finds same to be GERMANE, PURSUANT
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0009|   TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS, and thence referred to the EDUCATION
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0010|   COMMITTEE.
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0011|   
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0012|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0017|                              __________________________________
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0018|                              SENATOR MANNY M. ARAGON, Chairman 
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0022|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0023|             (Chief Clerk)                        (Chief Clerk)
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0005|   S0099CC1
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