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| SB
2 |
Altamirano |
General
Appropriations Act of 2003. (Identical to HB7). Provides an overall
FY 2004 funding level for all state agencies of approximately $3.98 billion
from the GF. higher education total is $615,634,300. |
| SB
8 |
Maes |
Water
Technology Assistance Tax Credit Act. A national laboratory may
claim a tax credit for providing directly or through contractors water-related
assistance to individuals and legal entities, including political subdivisions
of the state or tribal governments. Total annual credit limited to $7,000,000.
An advisory council is created, comprising membership appointed by the
Secretary of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources; the State Engineer;
the Secretary of Environment; the Secretary of Economic Development; the
Director of the Department of Agriculture ; the Director of the NM Rural
Water Users Association; the Executive Director of the NM Municipal League;
the Executive Director of the NM Farm and Livestock Bureau; the Executive
Director of the NM Oil and Gas
Association; the Director of the NM Water Resources Research Institute
the President of UNM; the President of the NM Institute of Mining and
Technology; and the President of NMSU.
SCONC amendment changes the quarterly reporting requirements by a
national laboratory. |
| SB
25 |
Hurt |
Session
Law Distribution. Amends existing statute, changing the distribution
of session laws from an automatic distribution to one upon request. The
Secretary of State will continue to be responsible for the distribution
of session laws.
SRC amendment cancels the effect of the original bill by removing the
inserted words “upon request”; then adds new language providing
that copies of session laws are to be provided to legislators upon request
by the Clerks of each house by January 30. |
| SB
28 |
McSorley
|
Sexual
Orientation or Gender Discrimination. (Identical to HB 314 |
| SB
29 |
McSorley |
Farmers
Market Nutrition Program. Appropriates $136,000 (GF) to the Department
of Health for FY 2004 to provide matching funds for the Farmers' Market
Nutrition Program to support small farmers and farmers' markets and to
improve the diets of women, children and seniors. |
| SB
30 |
McSorley |
Farmers
Market Promotion and Development. Appropriates $50,000 (GF) to
the Department of Agriculture in FY 2004 to promote and develop farmers'
markets.
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CS/
SB 46 |
Romero |
Public
Employee Bargaining Act. (See HB 508) A 32-page bill proposes a
July 1, 2003 effective date and would guarantee public employees (both state
and local) the right to organize and bargain collectively with their employers.
Includes same language for educational employees as.
SPAC/CS retains the form and substance of the original bill with the addition
of clarifying language. "Fair share" is defined and made a permissive
instead of mandatory subject of bargaining. Additionally, appropriates $327,000
(GF) to the Public Employee Labor Relations Board for FY 2004 to carry out
the provisions of the act. For educational employees, the scope of bargaining
would include, as a mandatory subject of bargaining, the impact of professional
and instructional decisions made by the employer. |
| SB
56 |
Papen |
Pink
Bollworm Control Program. Appropriates $400,000 (GF) to NMSU
for FY2004 for the Department of Agriculture to match pink bollworm
control districts' expenditures pursuant to the Pink Bollworm Control
Act.
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| SB
62 |
Nava |
High
School Curricula & Tests. (Identical to HB 186) Requires that
high school curricula and end-of-course tests be aligned with the placement
tests administered by the state's two- and four-year public education institutions. |
| SB
77 |
Boitano |
Tuition
Scholarships for Teachers' Kids. Extends the tuition scholarship
afforded to New Mexico high school graduates to a child of a New Mexico
teacher certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Applies to the 6 universities and Northern New Mexico State School (NNMCC). |
| SB
102 |
Sharer |
Water
Use Reporting Requirements. Authorizes the State Engineer to adopt
rules to determine usage limits for permitted wells and to notify well owners
of their limits. Requires well owners to meter their use and report it to
the State Engineer quarterly. Any usage over the permit limit would be fined
up to three cents per gallon of overuse. |
| SB
108 |
Papen |
Office
of Mexican Affairs Created. Creates the Office of Mexican Affairs
within the Governor's Office that would be headed by a "Mexican Affairs
Officer" who would be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the
Senate. Appropriates $325,000 (GF) to carry out the responsibilities of
the office, which are to oversee the state's relations with the Republic
of Mexico and the State of Chihuahua. The office would direct or oversee
the activities of the Economic Development Dept, the Tourism Dept, the Office
of Cultural Affairs, the State Highway and Transportation Dept, the Dept
of Public Safety, the NM Border Commission, the Border Authority and the
Joint Border Research Institute at NMSU as those activities relate to improving
relations and trade and encouraging or funding border development. |
| SB
113 |
McSorley |
Residential
Gray Water Use. (Duplicate of HB 114) Permits the use of gray water
for watering a garden, compost, or landscape irrigation. Defines gray water
as untreated household wastewater that has not been in contact with toilet
waste and includes wastewater from bathtubs, showers, washbasins, clothes
washing machines and laundry tubs. Excludes from the definition wastewater
from kitchen sinks or dishwashers or laundry water from washing a material
soiled with human excreta such as diapers. Provides guidelines for use. |
| SB
116 |
Tsosie |
Center
for Rural and Indian Education. Provides $500,000 (GF) to the State
Department of Public Education to establish a Center for Rural and Native
American Education in northwest New Mexico. The center shall collaborate
with institutions of higher education, public schools, teachers and tribal
governments to plan educational activities and learning opportunities as
well as on research activities associated with the center. |
| SB
123 |
Cisneros |
Acequias
& Community Ditch Requirements. The commissioners for an acequia
or community ditch must approve any changes by an acequia or community ditch
to change its point of diversion or place, change its purpose of use of
a water right, or move a water right. The commissioners may deny permission
to change on the basis that it would be detrimental to the acequia or community
ditch or its members. Prohibits the State Engineer from approving an application
for such a change, even in an emergency situation, without prior approval
from the appropriate acequia or ditch commission.
SCONC amendment is identical to the amendment made to HB 303 by HAGC.
The amendment would also require compliance by an applicant with provisions
of Sec. 73-3- 4.1 before the State Engineer could approve a change in point
of diversion or purpose of use. Adds three more requirements to achieve
approval for acequia diversions and purpose of use: applicant must submit
documentary evidence of compliance form the acequia commission; if acequia
fails to make a decision within 120 days to an applicant’s request
for approval, the acequia shall be deemed to have approved the request;
and the applicant’s request shall be in writing and delivered by certified
mail to the acequia commission.
Requires an acequia’s decision to be in writing and provides procedures
for appeal to the district court where th4e court is given authority to
set aside, reverse or remand a decision if done fraudulently, arbitrarily
or capriciously, or that was not in accord with
law. Adds a new Sec. 73-3-4.1 to give acequia commissioners authority to
adopt rules or bylaws or changes in point of diversion or place or purpose
of use. The change could only be denied by the commission if it would be
detrimental to the acequia or its
members. Effective date is March 1, 2004. |
| SB
124 |
Cisneros |
Water
Banking Authority. Separates out the statutory provision that authorized
an acequia or community ditch to establish a water bank to temporarily reallocate
water without change of purpose or use or point of diversion for future
use. The existing provision is tucked into the provisions for the Lower
Pecos River Basin below Sumner Lake at Sec. 72-1-2.3(C). |
| SB
128 |
Wilson-Beffort |
Unused
Water Rights Forfeiture Exemption. Preserves a full water allocation
to anyone who applies water-saving techniques such as drip irrigation and
low-energy precision application technologies. Existing law would require
a forfeiture of water rights and claims when a full allocation is not used
for a period of four years.
SCONC substitute takes a different approach to accomplishing the same
thing and abandons all proposed amendments to Secs. 72-5-28 (Failure to
Use Water–Forfeiture) and 72-12-8 (Water Right Forfeiture) that would
have tied the development of water saving
techniques to the Stat Engineer’s ability to declare water forfeitures.
Instead, the substitute amends Sec. 72-5-18, dealing with Maximum Water
Allowance, to provide that improved irrigation methods resulting in the
conservation of water shall not affect an owner’s water rights. |
| SB
134 |
Campos |
Capital
Expenditures, STB. Authorizes the State Board of Finance to issue
and sell Severance Tax Bonds for several projects including $4 million to
the Office of the State Engineer to conduct water surveys throughout the
state through FY 2003. |
| SB
136 |
Carraro |
Educational
Retirement Benefits. Amends Sec. 22-11-25.1 and adds a new Sec.
22-11-25.2 providing that, beginning July 1, 2002 and continuing until July
1, 2012, a retired member who begins employment at a local administrative
unit shall not be required to suspend retirement benefits if the retired
member holds a bachelor's degree plus 45 credit hours or a masters degree
and has completed 28 years of service with a local administrative unit.
Such retired member shall not be paid more than 65% of his last salary as
a non-retired employee. |
| SB
152 |
Komadina |
Lobbyist
Information Disclosure. Would require that lobbyist expense reports
include a description of the general subjects, bill numbers, rule and rate
making numbers of any rules and rates or proposed rules and rates on which
the lobbyist is lobbying or has lobbied since his last report. |
| SB
159 |
Ingle |
Cotton
Boll Weevil Control Program. (Similar to HB 94) Provides $1,000,000
(GF) to NMSU Board of Regents for a cotton boll weevil control program. |
| SB
167
CS w/
HB 167 |
Wilson-Beffort |
Income
Tax Rate and Capital Gains Cuts. For tax year 2003, the top income
tax rate is pared to 7.7%. Thereafter it declines to 7.0% (2004), 6.0% (2005)
and 5.0% (2006 and subsequently). A capital gains deduction is granted equal
to the greater of $1,000 or 10% of the capital gain (2003), 20% (2004),
30% (2005) and 50% (2006 and subsequently).
SFC amendment clarifies that the phased-in, reduced tax rates become
effective on January 1 of 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively.
SFL amendment shortens from 75 days to 55 days the period the Taxation and
Revenue Department has to process and issue an income tax refund before
interest starts accruing. |
| SB
169 |
Garcia,
M.J. |
Increase
Educational Retirement Multiplier. (Identical to SB 374) Amends
the Educational Retirement Act, Sec. 22-11-21, to change the yearly contribution
by each local administrative unit from 8.65% to 16.59% of the annual salary
of each member; but then adds a new Sec. 22-11-21.4 providing that no later
than December 31, 2003 the ERB shall calculate the local administrative
unit contribution rate actuarially necessary to provide retirement and disability
benefits pursuant to the act. If the calculated rate differs from the (16.59%)
rate specified above, then the contribution rate shall be adjusted to the
calculated rate.
The bill also changes the monthly retirement benefit for members age 60
or over who retire on or after July 1, 2003 to one-twelfth of a sum equal
to 3% of the member's average annual salary multiplied times the member's
credited years of service up to a maximum benefit of 80% of the member's
average annual salary. The basis of the average salary calculation is changed
for those members from highest 5-year salary to highest 3-year salary history. |
| SB
174 |
Romero |
Educational
Retirement Act Technical Changes. Makes a number of technical amendments
to the Educational Retirement Act.
Hfl/a changes to period of the required actuarial report from at least
once every five year to at least once every three years. |
| SB
177 |
Garcia,
M.J. |
Waste
Management Education & Research Consortium. (Identical to HB
251) |
| SB
180 |
Leavell |
Prohibit
Directed Suretyship. Provides that an employee of the state or
its political subdivisions shall not require a bidder for a construction
contract to obtain a surety bond from a particular surety company, insurance
company, broker or agent. Prescribes that a person violating this section
is guilty of a 4th degree felony.
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| SB
193 |
Feldman |
Tax
and Registration Fee Exemption for Alternative Fuel Vehicles. Provides
a gross receipts tax exemption and a motor vehicle registration fee exemption
to vehicles that operate exclusively on alternative fuel or are gas-electric
hybrid vehicles. |
| SB
195 |
Feldman |
State
Water Plan. (Identical to HB 260) |
| SB
217 |
Sharer |
Lottery
Tuition Scholarship Qualifications. Adds to those eligible to receive
lottery scholarships a full-time student dependent of a parent serving on
active duty in the armed forces outside New Mexico, regardless of where
the student graduated from high school. The family would be required to
prove that prior to the parent in the armed forces being stationed outside
of New Mexico, the family or parent resided in the state. The student must
be accepted for enrollment and attend a higher education institution immediately
upon graduation. |
| SB
219 |
Lopez |
Public
School Professional Development. Appropriates $3.5 million (GF
for FY 2004 w/reversion) to the Commission on Higher Education to fund professional
development programs and projects for public school personnel. Legislative
approval is necessary. |
| SB
220 |
Lopez |
Parenting
Leave Without Pay Mandated. Requires all employers to allow an
employee who is a parent to take a minimum of 24 hours time off without
pay for the purpose of attending school activities directly related to the
education of the employee’s child or to accompany the child to routine
medical visits. The leave could be taken in one-hour increments. Where possible,
the employee is required to give at least five working days’ notice,
except in the event of an emergency situation. Applies to children 18 and
younger who are enrolled in a public or private school, or a child 22 years
of age or younger who is enrolled in a special education program.
SCORC amendment changes the hours a parent is allowed to be absent from
work without pay to attend a child’s school activities. The original
bill proposed no more than 24 hours per year; the amendment changes that
to two hours per month. Also
extends the privilege to parents of home schooled students. |
| SB
226 |
Altamirano |
Reduce
Top Income Tax Rate. The top rate for the 2003 and all subsequent
tax years is lowered to 7.7%. |
| SB
238 |
Aragon |
Reduce
Income Tax Rates. Reduces the top personal income tax rate from
8.2% to 5.5% in two steps. For 2003, the maximum would be 7.7%; for succeeding
years, the top rate would be 5.5% and the lower brackets are widened, giving
relief to most lower-bracket taxpayers. Deduction of capital gains would
be the greater of $1,000 or 10% of the capital gains (2003), 20% (2004),
30% (2005) or 50% (2006 and following years). |
| SB
244 |
Campos |
Amend
Info Technology Management Act. (Identical to HB 67) |
| SB
247 |
Jennings |
Loan-for-Service
Program for Dental Students. Appropriates $50,000 (GF) to the Commission
on Higher Education for FY 2003 and 2004 to provide a loan-for-service financial
aid program with Baylor University to train dentists to work in New Mexico.
SFC amendment strikes the $50,000 GF appropriation to the CHE and replaces
it with an authorization for the commission to make use of funds already
appropriated for FY 2003 in order to train dentists to work in NM. |
| SB
254 |
Altamirano |
Per
Diem and Mileage Increase. (Identical to HB 220) |
| SB
277 |
Altamirano |
Blue
Ribbon Tax Reform Commission. A 17?member commission is to develop
recommendations for the reform of New Mexico's tax system. Three members
each are appointed by the Speaker of the House and the Senate's President
Pro Tem and eleven by the Governor. The commission is to report by September
1, 2003. |
| SB
283 |
Kernan |
Educational
Retirement ? Re-employment. (Similar to HB 22) Amends the Educational
Retirement Act, Sec. 22-11-25.1 to provide that a retired member who retired
on or before January 1, 2001, whose retirement benefits have not since been
suspended, and who is re-employed by a local administrative unit, shall
not be required to suspend retirement benefits. |
| SB
288 |
Lopez |
Create
Office of Public Facilitation. Creates an Office of Public Facilitation
administratively attached to DFA. The office will assist the Governor, agencies
and the Legislature on issues of water, natural resource management, environmental
health, public health, and other statewide issues by providing a procedural
manual for using alternative dispute resolution; assist with streamlining
licensing, permitting and credentialing functions. |
| SB
291 |
Lopez |
Nursing
Education at UNM and NMSU. Appropriates $919,000 (GF) to NMSU for
FY 2004 as follows: $500,000 to increase admissions and support the bachelor
of science in nursing and master of science in nursing program; and $419,000
to maintain nursing faculty salaries. Appropriates $1,075,000 (GF) to UNM
for FY 2004 to expand enrollment in the College of nursing and for geographic
expansion of the College of Nursing through distance education, web-based
enrollment and partnerships with other institutions. |
| SB
292 |
Campos |
NMFA:
Public Capital Project List. Creates a list of 224 public projects
that must be certified to the NMFA by the end of fiscal year 2006 in order
to pursue a loan from the Public Project Revolving Fund. Included are: NMSU
main campus, Alamogordo, Dona Ana, Carlsbad and Grants for building and
equipment acquisition projects. Voiding of Authorization: If a qualified
entity has not certified to the NMFA by end of FY 2006 its desire to continue
to pursue a loan from the public project revolving fund, the legislative
authorization granted to the NMFA to make a loan from the public project
revolving fund to that qualified entity for that public project is void. |
| SB
321 |
Garcia,
M.J. |
Official
State Goal for Literacy by 3rd Grade. (Identical to HB 374) |
| SB
343 |
McSorley |
Bill
Introduction Deadlines Changed. Changes the deadline for the introduction
of bills in the Legislature during 60-day sessions from the 30th to the
20th day, and in 30-day sessions from the 15th day to the 10th day. |
| SB
360 |
Lopez |
Education
Works Act. Establishes an educational component for those who apply
for public assistance. Creates the Educational Works Program for public
assistance eligible who do not have a bachelor's degree, are eligible for
a post-secondary degree, and who will benefit from a degree. All eligible
applicants must participate in an educational plan. Education Works recipient
is expected to seek financial aid from their educational institution and
participate in 20 hours per week of class time, studying, work, or volunteering.
The recipient must also be a full-time student as defined by the educational
institution. |
| SB
366 |
Campos |
Create
Technology Enhancement Fund. (Duplicate of HB 391) |
| SB
369 |
Campos |
Higher
Education Performance Fund. (Duplicates HB 393) |
| SB
370 |
Campos |
Higher
Education Program Development Enhancement. (Duplicates HB 392) |
| SB
373 |
Papen |
Special
Water Users' Associations. (Identical to HB 403)
SCONC amendment makes clarifying word changes and adds a sever ability
clause. |
| SB
374 |
Sanchez,
B. |
Increase
Educational Retirement Multiplier. (Identical to SB 169) |
| SB
377 |
Altamirano |
Lottery
Tuition Scholarships. Expands eligibility for lottery tuition scholarships
to include full-time resident students who, within one year of completing
a high school or two-year post-secondary curriculum or receiving a graduate
equivalent diploma, are accepted to and attend NMSU, NMIMT, ENMU, WNMU,
UNM, NMHU, or Northern NM Community College. For students who qualify for
a lottery scholarship by transferring to toe of the above institutions after
graduating from a two-year public post-secondary educational institution,
the maximum term of the scholarship is extended to two and one-half years. |
| SB
385 |
Altamirano |
Soil
& Water Conservation Districts. (Identical to HB 426) Appropriates
$1,152,000 (GF w/reversion) to the NMSU Board of Regents to match federal
funds for water conservation and natural resource restoration technical
assistance pursuant to agreements with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service. |
| SB
412 |
Duran |
Revise
Soil & Water Conservation District Act. (Duplicates HB 153)
Modernizes nearly every section of the act, including: the Soil and Water
Commission is given explicit power to promulgate rules, elections of soil
and water district supervisors and referenda on establishing new districts
are to be held on the first Tuesday in May and the results are to be canvassed
by the county canvassing board, petitions for modifying boundaries of an
existing district must be signed by 25 registered voters residing in the
district, supervisors must be residents of the district, terms of office
for supervisors are lengthened from 3 years to 4, and supervisors district
employees are declared to be public employees for purposes of the Tort Claims
Act and owners of the nonagricultural property in the district may no longer
petition to remove the property from taxation by the district. |
| SB
413 |
Campos |
Capital
Projects Act. The Capital Projects Act creates a council of experts
to evaluate and prioritize proposed statewide and local capital outlay projects
and to monitor authorized projects to insure their cost-effectiveness. The
council will consist of 12 members as follows: 6 appointed by the governor,
the state engineer, the executive director of the CHE, the executive director
of the NM Municipal League, the executive director of the Association of
Counties, the executive director of the Mortgage Finance Authority, a member
representing Indian nations, tribes and pueblos. Provides dates for accepting
proposals and making recommendations to the Legislature for funding priority.
Council is required to investigate all proposals, including conducting a
public hearing. |
| SB
415 |
Nava |
Center
for Border Superintendency. Provides $300,000 (GF) to NMSU's Board
of Regents to create a center for border superintendency to improve education
in the US-Mexico border region. |
| SB
455 |
Altamirano |
Faculty
Endowment Fund. (Identical to HB 567) Provides $2,000,000 (GF)
to the CHE for deposit into the Faculty Endowment Fund. |
| SB
466 |
Altamirano |
Economic
Development Professorships. Adds a provision to the Faculty Endowment
fund to permit up to $9 million of the fund to be disbursed after July 1,
2003 to the CHE to endow one professorship each to UNM, NMSU and NMIMT.
Each of the institutions is eligible for $3 million if it receives matching
funds for the endowment from other than state sources of at least $2 million.
The professorship must be directly related to the economic development of
the state. |
| SB
479 |
Martinez,
R |
Workers'
Comp Definition of "Disability". Amends the Workers'
Compensation Act to add to the conditions qualifying as permanent disability
a brain injury that results in an |
| SB
509 |
Nava |
Regional
Educational Technology Assistance. Appropriates $650,000 (GF) to
NMSU for FY 2004 for the Regional Educational Technology Assistance Program. |
| SB
514 |
Lopez |
Hazardous
Waste Regulations. Present law requires the Environmental Improvement
Board to adopt hazardous waste management rules no more stringent than federal
EPA regulations. This bill would require such rules to be at least
as stringent as federal regulations. |
| SB
515 |
Lopez |
Tougher
Air Quality Standards. Present law requires the Environmental Improvement
Board to adopt hazardous waste management rules no more stringent than federal
EPA regulations. This bill would require such rules to be at least
as stringent as federal regulations. |
| SB
536 |
Leavell |
Statewide
Agricultural Education Programs. (Similar to HB 387) Appropriates
$250,000 to NMSU for use in FYs 2003 and 2004 to support the continuation
of agricultural education programs statewide. |
| SB
541 |
Romero |
Guadalupe
Hidalgo Treaty Department. Appropriates $100,000 to establish a
Guadalupe hidalgo Treaty Department in the Attorney General's Office. The
purpose of the department is to review, oversee and address concerns relating
to provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that have not been implemented
or observed. The Attorney General is required to report findings to the
Legislature. |
| SB
551 |
Wilson-Beffort |
State
Engineer Authority Over Water. Directs the State Engineer to adopt
rules for priority administration: 1) so as not to interfere with future
or pending adjudication; 2) so as to create no impairment of water rights,
other than what is required to enforce priorities; 3) so as to create no
increased depletions. The rules are to be based on appropriate hydrologic
models to promote expedited marketing and leasing of water in the areas
affected by priority administration. Nothing in the bill shall affect the
partical decree and settlement agreement that may be entered in the Carlsbad
irrigation district project offer phase of State Engineer v. Lewis. |
| SB
558 |
Altamirano |
Unemployment
Compensation Changes. (Nearly identical to HB 261, as amended by
HTRC) This 141-page bill proposes a phased-in change to the Unemployment
Compensation law and makes sweeping changes to increase and extend benefits,
decrease employers’ contributions and eliminate certain restrictions
on eligibility for benefits. An extensive revision has been made to employer
computations and the maintenance of employer accounts. The definition for
weekly benefits has changed substantially as have eligibility requirements
for benefits. Appropriates $2,592,401 from the Reed Act Distribution Fund
to the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund for FY 2003 through
2007. |
| SB
565 |
Jennings |
Domestic
Water Well Management. (Similar to HB 307) This bill differs from
HB 307 in one major respect: it preserves language from existing law declaring
that “relatively small amounts of water” are used for watering
livestock, in household or other domestic use, and in prospecting, mining
or construction of public works, highways and roads or drilling operations
designed to discover or develop the natural resources of the state. |
| SB
566 |
Jennings |
Quantitative
Forage Monitoring & Assessment. Provides $250,000 (GF) to NMSU’s
Board of Regents for the Range Improvement Task Force to conduct quantitative
forage monitoring and assessments on public lands. |
| SB
568 |
Carraro |
Prohibit
Smoking in Prisons & Schools. ( Unsure if this would apply
to higher ed institutions.) Prohibits smoking in publicly and privately
operated correctional facilities, certified juvenile detention facilities,
and on public school campuses. Requires that no smoking signs be conspicuously
placed. |
| SB
586 |
Papen
|
Non-Taxable
Transactions Certificates. (Duplicates HB 339) The 1992 series
of nontaxable transaction certificates is set to expire December 31, 2003.
This bill extends the existing series one year to December 31, 2004. It
also will allow the Taxation and Revenue Department to deny certificates
to taxpayers with non-filed periods. An appropriation is made to the department
to set up a system for electronic issuance and execution of the certificates. |
| SB
609 |
Romero |
Educational
Retirement Contributions. Adds a new section to the Educational
Retirement Act to provide that an employee who is a PERA retired member
and has not suspended benefits: 1) shall not make contributions to the fund
as would otherwise be required by the Educational Retirement Act; and 2)
is not entitled to acquire or purchase service credit for a period of employment
with a local administrative unit. |
| SB
613 |
Sharer |
Flat
Rate Personal Income Tax. Beginning with the 2003 taxable year,
New Mexico’s personal income tax rate is dropped to a single rate
– 3.5% for all taxpayers. The bill also de-couples the state standard
deduction amount for the federal. Single individuals and married persons
filing separately would be allowed $8,000, married persons filing jointly
and surviving spouses $16,000 and heads of households $11,000. Unlike the
federal standard deduction, this state standard deduction would not be adjusted
automatically for inflation. |
| SB
617 |
Nava |
NMSU
Border Regional Math and Science Education. (Duplicates HB 474)
Appropriates $400,000 (GF) to NMSU for FY 2004 for an initiative that partners
with K-12 public school students in Southern New Mexico to significantly
increase the math and science achievements of students located in rural
counties near the Mexican border. |
| SB
649 |
Nava |
Math
& Science Programs for Border Students. Provides $400,000 (GF)
to NMSU Board of Regents for a program that partners with kindergarten through
12th grade students in southern New Mexico to increase math and science
education for all students in rural border counties. |
| SB
655 |
Altamirano |
Supplemental
General Appropriation Act of 2003. Cited as the Supplemental General
Appropriations Act of 2003, the bill provides for expenditures by state
agencies in FY 2004 for the purposes specified, and for other deficiency
and special appropriations for FYs 2002 and 2003. Included is $606,272,800
(GF) for higher education. |
| SB
662 |
Sharer |
Farmington
Agricultural Science Center. (Identical to HB 527) Provides $500,000
(GF) to NMSU’s Board of Regents for the continued operation of the
Farmington Agricultural Science Center. |
| SB
669 |
Gorham |
TANF
Programs to Support & Encourage Marriage. (Identical to HB
750) Makes appropriations from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Block Grant to NMSU’s Board of Regents for programs to encourage and
support marriage. |
| SB
690 |
Aragon |
Negotiated
Sale of Public Property. (Identical to HB 424) |
| SB
691 |
Altamirano |
Transfer
of Adult Basic Education to CHE. Transfers to the CHE the responsibility
of performing planning and budgeting functions for the adult basic education
centers. Those functions now belong to the State Board of Education. The
CHE, in consultation with adult basic education administrative sites would
create an equitable formula for distribution of the adult basic education
fund. Adult basic education students would be entitled to the free use of
instructional materials from the instructional Material Bureau of the Department
of Education. |
| SB
695 |
Romero |
Conservancy
District Elections. Provides that all elections held by conservancy
districts would be conducted by the use of mail-in ballots. Further, provides
that a conservancy district created prior to 1930, located in four or more
counties and consisting of 100,000 or more acres could not enter into an
agreement, including a reclamation contract, issue bonds or otherwise incur
debt that would be repaid by property taxes unless the question is first
put to the electors of that district in a mail-in ballot election. Effective
July 1, 2003. |
| SB
722 |
Rawson |
NMSU
Endowed Chair for Nursing. Provides $500,000 (GF) to NMSU’s
Board of Regents to create an endowed chair for nursing. |
| SB
736 |
Carraro |
Procurement
Code: Competitive Proposals. Amends Sec. 13-1-111 to provide that
competitive sealed proposals shall be used for contracts for all work associated
with “assured environmental performance service projects,” which
is defined to mean the design, construction, control and warranty of heating
and cooling systems. |
| SB
742 |
Snyder |
Interstate
Stream Commission Water Storage. Amends the Ground Water Storage
and Recovery Act to permit the Interstate Stream Commission to store and
retrieve ground water by adding “the Interstate Stream Commission”
to that act’s definition of a “governmental entity.” |
| SB
747 |
Garcia,
MJ |
NMSU
Graduate Assistantship Payments. (Identical to HB 830) Provides
$2,000,000 (GF) to NMSU’s Board of Regents to pay for health insurance
and tuition for graduate assistants. |
| SB
766 |
Papen |
Tax
on Admission to Non-Athletic Events. (Identical to HB 623) This
bill would exclude from the governmental gross receipts tax the admission
to non-athletic special events sponsored by the student association of a
post-secondary educational institution. Entertainment events currently are
taxed. |
| SB
833 |
Rawson
|
Group
Health Insurance for State Employees. Would make the participation
in health insurance coverage provided by their employees mandatory for all
public employees. |
| SB
846 |
Garcia, MJ |
2003 Senate Redistricting Act. The 2003
Senate Redistricting Act enacts requirements for membership, residence and
election of state senators and sets out the composition of each of the 42
seats. |
| SB
930 |
Robinson |
Accelerate Phase-In Tax Relief. The phased-in
income tax cut just signed by the Governor would be made fully effective
for tax year 2003. The top rate would drop to 4.9% and 50% of capital gains
would be deductible. Repeals portions of CS/HB 167 & SB 167 singed by
the Governor: Secs. 3 through 6, Ch. 2, Laws 2003. |
|
Senate Concurrent Resolution Return to top |
| SCR
1 |
McSorley |
Deadline
for Bill Requests to LCS. Changes the deadlines for making a request
to the Legislative Council Service to draft a bill from the 28th to the
18th calendar day for a 60-day session and from the 13th to the 8th day
for a 30-day session. |
|
Senate Joint Memorial Return to top |
| SJM
6 |
Papen |
Integrated
Education System Plan. Requests that the Board of Education and
the Commission on Higher Education convert the Teacher Education Accountability
Council into the Preschool through Post-Secondary Education Advisory 'Council
to guide an aligned policy between public schools and higher education to
better prepare students. Proposes that the council also include community
members, representatives from K12, two-and four-year institutions and businesses. |
| SJM
18 |
Rawson |
Water
Infrastructure Problems. Requests that the Water Trust Board and
the State Engineer Office with cooperation from municipalities, the Municipal
League, Water and Sanitation Districts, Mutual Domestic Water Consumers
Association, and other interested parties compile information on the extent
of leakage and water infrastructure problems. Recommendations for remedies
for these problems will be reported to the appropriate committee by 12/1/03. |
| SJM
25 |
Campos |
Higher
Education Performance Fund. (Duplicates HJM 27) |
| SJM
36 |
McSorley |
Use
of Non-tenure Track Faculty in NM. Directs the Legislative Council
to appoint the appropriate interim committee to review the growing dependence
on part-time and non-tenure track faculty in post-secondary educational
institutions. Request that the CHE study the use and compensation of part-time
and non-tenure track faculty and, on consultation with the institutions
and faculty organizations, consider policies designed to discourage over-reliance
on such faculty, reporting to the appropriate interim committee by November
2003 with recommendations regarding minimum salary and fringe benefits. |
| SJM
40 |
Ingle |
NM
Food & Agricultural Policy Council. (Duplicates HJM 45) Recognizes
that some concerned citizens and government personnel have met to discuss
food and agricultural issues and to create an organization called the New
Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council. Asks that the formation of the
council be acknowledged and that the governor, stakeholders, agencies of
state government and legislators be encouraged to participate. |
| SJM
44 |
Griego |
Study
Effect of Surface Water Use on Aquifers. (Identical to HJM 4) Requests
the State Engineer and NMSU to establish a task force to evaluate the problems
resulting from unregulated surface water impoundments and recommend possible
legislative action in 2004. NMSU is requested to conduct specified hydrologic
studies. |
| SJM
71 |
Griego
|
Integrated
Desalinization Into Water Plans. Requests that the Interstate Stream
Commission integrate the use of desalination into its state water plans.
The commission is asked to look for ways to reduce or remove the impediments
to the development of brackish water treatment facilities. Also request
that the NM Water Resources Institute and the NM Waste Management and REsearch
Consortium place a high priority on brackish water use and in helping communities
meet their water needs. |
| SJM
74 |
Rodriquez |
Half-Staff Flags for Death of Law Officers.
Requests the Governor to order that all US and NM flags be flown at half-staff
upon the death, in the line of duty, of NM law enforcement officers. |
| Senate
Joint Resolution Return to top |
| SJR
4 |
Romero |
CA:
Legislative Session Extension. Proposes to amend the State Constitution
to permit the extension of a regular Session of the Legislature upon the
joint certification to the governor by the speaker of the House and the
president pro tem of the Senate. Would be placed on the ballot of the next
general election or any special election held sooner. |
| SJR
10 |
Hurt |
Legislative
Session Times & Subjects, CA. Calls or a vote to amend Art.
4, Sec. 5 of the State Constitution to establish the State's annual legislative
session to no more than 45 days. In even-numbered years, the Legislature
would set a budget for the upcoming two fiscal years and consider all general
appropriation bills. In the odd-numbered years, appropriation legislation
would be limited to bills from the Governor an to supplements to the prior
year's appropriations. |
| SJR
11 |
Hurt |
Change
Legislative Terms & Election Time, CA. Would increase the term
of members of the state House of Representatives from two to four years.
Provides that the election of members of the Legislature would not be held
the same year the governor is elected. Would be on the ballot of the next
general election or a special election held sooner. |
| SJR
14 |
McSorley |
Extend
Governor's Review Period, CA. Proposes to amend the State Constitution
to give the governor 30, instead of 20, days to act on bills passed in the
final three days of a legislative session; provides for an override session
of the legislature that would take place starting at noon on the first Tuesday
after 39 days following the adjournment of a legislative session and last
for not more than 5 days to consider only vetoes or partial vetoes of bills
of measures passed the immediately preceding session. Overrides would require
a two-thirds vote of members present in both houses. No override session
would be held if a majority of the members elected to both houses notified
their chief clerks in writing that the session was not necessary. The proposal
would be on the next general election ballot or that of any special election
held earlier. |
| SJR
18 |
McSorley |
Boards
of Regents Selection Process. Constitutional amendment to Art.
12, Sec. 13 provides for membership on all boards of regents for 4-year
institutions to be increased from five to seven members, and for one of
the members to be a full-time tenured faculty member and one to be a member
of the student body. |
|
Senate Memorial Return to top |
| SM
8 |
Hurt |
Re-evaluate
Endangered Species Act. Requests that the US Congress re-evaluate
the many costly programs generated by the Endangered Species Act and to
restore to the citizens the personal and property rights that have been
jeopardized by the act. |
| SM
27 |
Papen |
"Extension
Service Day". Designates February 18, 2003 as "Extension
Service Day" in recognition of NMSU's cooperative extension services
that provide programs in agriculture, home economics, natural resources,
economic development, and 4-H youth development. |
| SM
36 |
Komadina |
Federal
Endangered Species Act Changes. Requests our congressional delegation.
The President, the Secretary of the Interior and Congress to support amending
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to ensure that a federal agency must
base its decisions on credible and sufficient scientific data and studies
when it lists an endangered species, declares a habitat for a listed species
or issues a management plan or a listed species. Also asks for compensation
for economic damage due to a faulty decision if not based on appropriate
information. |
| SM
40 |
Garcia,
MJ |
J.
Paul and Mary Taylor, In Recognition. Recognizes Rep. J. Paul Taylor
and his wife Mary for their selfless donation of their 1850-era adobe home
on the Mesilla Plaza to the Museum of New Mexico. |
| Senate
Resolution Return to top |
| SR
1 |
Adair |
Consideration
of Board of Regents’ Nominees. Requests that no nomination
to boards of regents be considered by the senate until the governor nullifies
the letters of resignation he demanded of his nominees to boards of regents
and will not make any such further demands as a condition of nomination. |
| Senate
Capital Outlay Return to top |
| SCO
18 |
Rawson |
Athletic
Facility Improvements at NMSU. $60K |
| SCO
102 |
Nava |
Renovations
and Additions at O'Donnell Hall at NMSU. $12M |
| SCO
543 |
Nava |
Building
for NM Border Initiative. $500K |
| SCO
544 |
Nava |
Building
for NM Boarder Authority. $7K |
| SCO
786 |
Sanchez,
M |
Equipping
and Purchasing Land for NM Horse Project. $100,000 |
| SCO
1268 |
Papen
|
Capital
Projects for NMSU. $10K for crosswalk improvements
$37.5K to purchase security cameras for parking lots. |
| SCO
1352 |
Papen
|
Equipment
for KRWG-TV. $168K |
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