0001|                        SENATE BILL 538
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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|                         LEONARD TSOSIE
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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 FOR CONSTRUCTION, REHABILITATION AND
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0014|     REPLACEMENT OF THE RAMAH NAVAJO CHAPTER WATER AND WASTEWATER
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0015|     PROJECT IN MCKINLEY COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING
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0016|     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 three hundred
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0022|     thousand dollars ($300,000) when the department of environment
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0023|     certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds.  The state
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0024|     board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale of the
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0025|     bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner possible
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0001|     upon a finding by the board that the project has been developed
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0002|     sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the project can
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0003|     proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The state board
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0004|     of finance shall further take the appropriate steps necessary to
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0005|     comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The
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0006|     proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the
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0007|     department of environment for the purpose of constructing,
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0008|     replacing and rehabilitating the water and wastewater project of
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0009|     the Ramah Navajo chapter located in McKinley county.  Any
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0010|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0011|     fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0012|     If the department of environment has not certified the need for
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0013|     the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year 1998, the
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0014|     authorization provided in this section shall be void.
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0015|       Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0016|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0019|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0020|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0023|                                              JANUARY 30, 1996
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0024|   
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0025|   Mr. President:
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0002|     Your COMMITTEES' COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0003|   
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0004|                           SENATE BILL 538
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0006|   has had it under consideration and finds same to be GERMANE, PURSUANT
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0007|   TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS, and thence referred to the INDIAN AND
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0008|   CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.
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0010|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0015|                              __________________________________
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0016|                              SENATOR MANNY M. ARAGON, Chairman 
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0020|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0021|             (Chief Clerk)                        (Chief Clerk)
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0024|                     Date ________________________
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0005|                      FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0006|                        SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0009|                                                   February 1, 1996
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0011|   Mr. President:
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0012|   
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0013|     Your INDIAN & CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom has
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0014|   been referred
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0015|   
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0016|                           SENATE BILL 538
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0018|   has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that
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0019|   it DO PASS, and thence referred to the FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0021|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0025|                              __________________________________
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0001|                              John Pinto, Chairman 
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0005|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0006|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0010|                     Date ________________________
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0013|   The roll call vote was <u> 5 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
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0014|   Yes:  5
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0015|   No:        0
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0016|   Excused:   Maes, McKibben & Kysar
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0017|   Absent:    None
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0020|   S0538IC1
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