State of New Mexico
                      House of Representatives
  
                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
  
  
                                                February 19, 1997
  
  
  Mr. Speaker:
  
       Your TAXATION AND REVENUE COMMITTEE, to whom has
  been referred
  
                  HOUSE BILL 209, as amended
  
  has had it under consideration and reports same with
  recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
  
       1.  On page 3, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following
  new sections:
  
       "Section 2.  Section 9-5A-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1987,
  Chapter 
  234, Section 3) is amended to read:
  
       "9-5A-3.  DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHED.--
  
            A.  There is created in the executive branch the "energy, 
  minerals and natural resources department".  The department shall be 
  a cabinet department and shall include, but not be limited to, the 
  following organizational units:
  
                 (1)  the administrative services division;
                 (2)  the state [park and recreation] parks
  division;
                 (3)  the forestry division which shall include a 
                           soil and water conservation bureau;
                 (4)  the energy conservation and management  
                      division;
                 (5)  the mining and minerals division; and
                 (6)  the oil conservation division.
  
            B.  The state game commission is administratively
  attached to the department.".
  
            Section 3.     A new section of the Energy, Minerals
  and Natural Resources Department Act is enacted to read:
  
       "[NEW MATERIAL] STATE PARKS DIVISION DESIGNATION.--As used in
  the NMSA 1978, "state park and recreation division" means the state
  parks division of the energy, minerals and natural resources
  department."".,
  
  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 9  For 2  Against
  Yes:      9
            No:       Lovejoy, Sandel
            Excused:  Gubbels, Sandoval
            Absent:   None
  
  
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