0001|                            HOUSE BILL 690
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           JAMES G. TAYLOR
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0012|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS FOR ACQUISITION AND INSTALLATION OF
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0013|     COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT AT CERTAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN
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0014|     ALBUQUERQUE IN BERNALILLO COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION;
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0015|     DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0019|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--
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0020|               A.  The state board of finance may issue and sell
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0021|     severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance Tax
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0022|     Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding three hundred twenty-
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0023|     five thousand dollars ($325,000) when the state department of
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0024|     public education certifies the need for the issuance of the
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0025|     bonds.  The state board of finance shall schedule the issuance
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0001|     and sale of the bonds in the most expeditious and economical
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0002|     manner possible upon a finding by the board that the project
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0003|     has been developed sufficiently to justify the issuance and
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0004|     that the project can proceed to contract within a reasonable
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0005|     time.  The state board of finance shall further take the
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0006|     appropriate steps necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue
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0007|     Code of 1986, as amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the
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0008|     bonds are appropriated to the state department of public
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0009|     education in the following amounts for the following purposes:
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0010|                    (1)  sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for
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0011|     the acquisition and installation of computer technology
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0012|     equipment at Adobe Acres elementary school in Albuquerque
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0013|     located in Bernalillo county;
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0014|                    (2)  sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for
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0015|     the acquisition and installation of computer technology
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0016|     equipment at Pajarito elementary school in Albuquerque located
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0017|     in Bernalillo county;
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0018|                    (3)  sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for
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0019|     the acquisition and installation of computer technology
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0020|     equipment at Kit Carson elementary school in Albuquerque
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0021|     located in Bernalillo county;
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0022|                    (4)  sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for
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0023|     the acquisition and installation of computer technology
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0024|     equipment at Navajo elementary school in Albuquerque located in
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0025|     Bernalillo county; and
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0001|                    (5)  sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for
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0002|     the acquisition and installation of computer technology
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0003|     equipment at Barcelona elementary school in Albuquerque located
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0004|     in Bernalillo county.
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0005|               B.  If the state department of public education has
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0006|     not certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end
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0007|     of fiscal year 1999, the authorization provided in this section
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0008|     shall be void.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0009|     remaining from the proceeds of severance tax bonds issued
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0010|     pursuant to Subsection A of this section at the end of fiscal
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0011|     year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0012|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0013|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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