0001| HOUSE BILL 1232
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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| G. X. MCSHERRY
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0010| AN ACT
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0011| RELATING TO AGRICULTURE; AMENDING AND ENACTING SECTIONS OF THE
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0012| COTTON BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL ACT TO PROVIDE FOR BOLL WEEVIL
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0013| CONTROL BY ORGANIC COTTON PRODUCERS.
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0015| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016| Section 1. Section 76-6A-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1996,
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0017| Chapter 77, Section 1) is amended to read:
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0018| "76-6A-1. SHORT TITLE. [This act] Chapter 76, Article
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0019| 6A NMSA 1978 may be cited as the "Cotton Boll Weevil Control
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0020| Act"."
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0021| Section 2. Section 76-6A-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1996,
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0022| Chapter 77, Section 3) is amended to read:
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0023| "76-6A-3. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Cotton Boll Weevil
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0024| Control Act:
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0025| A. "board" means the board of regents of New Mexico
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0001| state university;
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0002| B. "cotton boll weevil" means any life stage of the
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0003| cotton insect Anthonomus grandis Boheman;
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0004| C. "cotton boll weevil control committee" means the
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0005| persons, not less than three nor more than seven, elected by a
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0006| majority of the cotton producers in a designated cotton boll
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0007| weevil control district;
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0008| D. "cotton boll weevil control district" means a
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0009| designated area duly established under the Cotton Boll Weevil
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0010| Control Act wherein a program to suppress or eradicate the
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0011| cotton boll weevil is administered;
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0012| E. "cotton producer" means any person growing five
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0013| or more acres of cotton plants. For the purposes of the Cotton
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0014| Boll Weevil Control Act, only one person from any farm, sole
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0015| proprietorship, corporation, partnership or any other legal
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0016| business arrangement shall be eligible to vote to establish or
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0017| dissolve a cotton boll weevil control district;
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0018| F. "department" means the New Mexico department of
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0019| agriculture; [and]
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0020| G. "director" means the director of the New Mexico
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0021| department of agriculture; and
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0022| H. "organic cotton producer" means any person
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0023| growing cotton who is certified by the organic commodity
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0024| commission as a producer of organic or transitional cotton."
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0025| Section 3. Section 76-6A-5 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1996,
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0001| Chapter 77, Section 5) is amended to read:
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0002| "76-6A-5. COTTON BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL COMMITTEE--DUTIES
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0003| AND POWERS.--
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0004| A. [The local] A cotton boll weevil control
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0005| committee shall prescribe control measures for any cotton
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0006| planted within a cotton boll weevil control district. When
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0007| prescribing control measures, the cotton boll weevil control
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0008| committee shall make every effort to adhere to integrated pest
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0009| management practices, to allow organic cotton producers to
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0010| choose organic pest management practices that will allow them
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0011| to maintain their organic certification and to adhere to the
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0012| management goals of individual cotton producers consistent with
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0013| the goal of complete eradication of the cotton boll weevil.
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0014| B. [The] A cotton boll weevil control committee
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0015| may adopt regulations to set the method for determining the
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0016| yield per acre of cotton lands under the control of [the] a
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0017| cotton producer for purposes of calculating the assessment
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0018| amount due."
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0019| Section 4. Section 76-6A-8 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1996,
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0020| Chapter 77, Section 8) is amended to read:
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0021| "76-6A-8. HEARINGS.--Within sixty days after [the] a
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0022| petition has been filed with the director and upon payment of
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0023| the cost estimate, the director shall cause notices to be given
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0024| of the proposed hearings in areas of the state where the cotton
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0025| boll weevil is of economic importance. The notices of hearing
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0001| shall be published [at least fourteen days prior to the date
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of hearing] in a newspaper of general circulation in the
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0003| proposed cotton boll weevil control district, and shall be
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0004| sent directly to the organic commodity commission, at least
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0005| fourteen days prior to the date of the hearing."
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0006| Section 5. Section 76-6A-11 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1996,
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0007| Chapter 77, Section 11) is amended to read:
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0008| "76-6A-11. [LOCAL] COTTON BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL
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0009| COMMITTEES--ADDITIONAL DUTIES AND POWERS.--
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0010| A. [In the performance of this function, local]
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0011| Cotton boll weevil control committees may:
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0012| (1) conduct programs to suppress or eradicate
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0013| [designated] cotton boll weevils within their [local]
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0014| cotton boll weevil control [district] districts;
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0015| (2) cooperate in the administration of the
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0016| Cotton Boll Weevil Control Act through the use of state or
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0017| federal personnel and facilities or both;
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0018| (3) enter into contracts or cooperative
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0019| agreements with [other agencies, including federal] state,
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0020| federal or local agencies;
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0021| (4) publish information and conduct seminars
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0022| on the distribution and control of the cotton boll weevil; and
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0023| (5) levy and collect a special assessment,
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0024| based on cotton acreage or cotton yield per acre within the
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0025| cotton boll weevil control [district] districts.
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0001| B. [Local] Cotton boll weevil control committees
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0002| shall provide a complete accounting of the funds collected
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0003| through the special assessment to all participating cotton
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0004| producers in the cotton boll weevil control [district]
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0005| districts.
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0006| C. The cotton boll weevil control committee shall
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0007| send notice of the establishment of a cotton boll weevil
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0008| control district and its defined boundaries to the organic
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0009| commodity commission within fourteen days of its
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0010| establishment."
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0011| Section 6. A new section of the Cotton Boll Weevil
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0012| Control Act is enacted to read:
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0013| "[NEW MATERIAL] ORGANIC COTTON REGULATIONS.--
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0014| A. Each organic cotton producer within an
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0015| established cotton boll weevil control district shall notify
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0016| the cotton boll weevil control committee in writing of the
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0017| number of acres on which the organic cotton producer intends to
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0018| plant organic cotton at least thirty days prior to planting.
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0019| B. The cotton boll weevil committee shall require
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0020| all organic producers to pay the assessment established for the
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0021| cotton boll weevil control district in the same manner as
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0022| producers of conventionally grown cotton in the cotton boll
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0023| weevil control district.
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0024| C. After crop planting, the cotton boll weevil
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0025| control committee shall notify an organic cotton producer as to
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0001| the boll weevil status of his cotton acres, as well as the boll
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0002| weevil status of surrounding acres, as documented by the
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0003| committee's normal boll weevil trapping program.
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0004| D. The cotton boll weevil control committee shall
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0005| confer with the organic cotton producer to determine measures
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0006| that might be taken to attempt to keep all or a portion of the
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0007| organic cotton producer's cotton acreage below trigger levels
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0008| for required treatment. If the organic cotton producer chooses
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0009| to use a nonconventional method, the cotton boll weevil control
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0010| committee shall pay the costs of the nonconventional method
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0011| used by the organic cotton producer. If boll weevil trigger
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0012| levels are reached on the organic cotton producer's acres and
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0013| boll weevil migration from outside these acres has been
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0014| eliminated as a cause of these levels, then the organic cotton
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0015| producer shall be allowed to harvest these acres, but shall not
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0016| be allowed to grow cotton on the acreage for one year. If the
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0017| organic cotton producer chooses to use conventional methods of
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0018| treatment, the cotton boll weevil committee shall proceed
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0019| accordingly."
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0020| State of New Mexico
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0021| House of Representatives
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0023| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0024| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0002| March 11, 1997
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0005| Mr. Speaker:
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0007| Your AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES COMMITTEE,
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0008| to whom has been referred
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0009|
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0010| HOUSE BILL 1232
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0012| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0013| recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
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0015| 1. On page 5, line 7, strike the quotation mark.
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0017| 2. On page 5, between lines 7 and 8, insert the following
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0018| new subsection:
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0020| "D. If the cotton boll weevil control district
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0021| includes certified organic acreage, the cotton boll weevil
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0022| control committee shall select an organic farmer operating within
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0023| the district, who shall have all the powers of a committee
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0024| member, to serve on the cotton boll weevil control committee.".
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0001| 3. On page 6, line 8, after "producer" insert ", with this
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0002| payment not to exceed the amount of the assessment paid by the
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0003| organic cotton producer".
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0005| 4. On page 6, line 8, after the period insert a quotation
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0006| mark, strike the remainder of the line and strike lines 9 through
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0007| 15 in their entirety.,
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0009| and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE
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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| G. X. McSherry, Chairman
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0020|
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0021| Adopted Not Adopted
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0022|
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0023| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0025| Date
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0002| The roll call vote was 8 For 0 Against
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0003| Yes: 8
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0004| Excused: Porter
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0005| Absent: None
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0009| G:\BILLTEXT\BILLW_97\H1232 State of New Mexico
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0010| House of Representatives
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0012| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0013| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0016| March 14, 1997
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0019| Mr. Speaker:
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0021| Your APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, to
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0022| whom has been referred
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0023|
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0024| HOUSE BILL 1232, as amended
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0025|
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0001| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0002| recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0004| Respectfully submitted,
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0010| Max Coll, Chairman
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0013| Adopted Not Adopted
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0015| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0017| Date
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0019| The roll call vote was 15 For 0 Against
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0020| Yes: 15
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0021| Excused: Bird, Salazar
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0022| Absent: None
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0001| House of Representatives
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0003| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0004| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0007| March 16, 1997
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0009|
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0010| Mr. Speaker:
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0011|
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0012| Your APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, to
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0013| whom has been referred
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0014|
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0015| HOUSE BILL 1232
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0016|
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0017| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0018| recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0019|
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0020| Respectfully submitted,
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0001| Max Coll, Chairman
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0004| Adopted Not Adopted
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0006| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0008| Date
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0010| The roll call vote was 13 For 0 Against
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0011| Yes: 13
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0012| Excused: Marquardt, Picraux, Saavedra, Watchman
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0013| Absent: None
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