[Nmtriblibs] FW: NMLA 2023 Legislative Bulletin #11a

[Moore, Patricia, DCA]

Forwarded on behalf of Joe Sabatini... Revised with corrected chart.



From: Joe Sabatini <jsabatini423 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:00 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] NMLA 2023 Legislative Bulletin #11a

Revised with corrected chart.

NMLA 2023 Legislative Bulletin #11                                 February 21, 2023


COMMITTEE HEARINGS

Senate Bill 147, Tax Changes by Senator Benny Shendo and Representative Jason Harper. This is a 63 page bill prepared by the New Mexico Department of Taxation and Revenue to address various tax law issues. One section applies to removing the gross receipts tax on digital products, such as library e-books and audiobooks, loaned to the public.

On Saturday, the Senate Tax, Business & Transportation Committee passed a Committee Substitute for SB 147, incorporating some technical changes to the original bill. The digital products taxation segment was unchanged. The vote was 6 -0 for a do-pass recommendation. The bill now goes to the Senate Finance Committee.

The webcast is at:
https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00293/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20230221/-1/71947  at 1:46:20 pm



House Bill 147, Indian Education Funds Distribution

The House Appropriations and Finance Committee will hear HB 147 this afternoon. It is fifth on the agenda.  HB 147 creates a tribal education fund in the State Treasury to handle Tribal Education Trust Fund money. The objective is to ensure that tribes receive stable and consistent funding to carry out tribally based education programs. Such funding would not revert to the state.

Having funding going directly to tribes will assist tribal libraries in carrying out programs; last year specific project funds were allocated by the Public Education Department. These funds arrived in December with the obligation to spend them by the end of June.

Another bill from the Tribal Education Alliance, HB 140, is scheduled to be the fourth item on the agenda, but the TEA has indicated that it may be tabled.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Feb 21, 2023 01:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87681144287
Or One tap mobile:
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Webinar ID: 876 8114 4287


House Appropriations & Finance Committee
Nathan Small, Chair

Tuesday, February 21, 2023 - 1:30 P.M.  -  Room 307

HB 118                 CREATE OFFICE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP       Lane
HB 167                 CHILD CRIME VICTIMS SERVICES Nibert
HB 197                 INCREASE FREE FISHING DAYS    Gallegos
HB 42                    PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLIMATE RESILIENCY Thomson
HB 140                 TRIBAL EDUCATION TRUST FUND         Lente
HB 147                 INDIAN EDUCATION FUND DISTRIBUTIONS   Lente
....

Capital Outlay Projects
Attached is a spreadsheet showing library capital outlay project requests by individual legislators. Forty six Representatives and 24 Senators put in 169 requests for 37 library projects for $52,539,870 in capital outlay funding. This compares with 2022, when 26 Representatives and 14 Senators put in 71 requests for 14 library projects requesting $8,399,000 in capital outlay funding.

The spreadsheet is a dense cut-and-paste chart showing the text of each request from each legislator. Frequently, several legislators from the same area will list the same project with the same appropriation. For example, the first project on the list is $78,000 for ALB CENTRAL & UNSER LIBRARY IMPROVE, which provides security cameras at this Albuquerque branch. Nine Senators and Representatives put this project in their respective requests.

Column A shows the bill number assigned to individual legislators. The House listings are numbered by the member's district; the Senate listings provide an alphabetical last name sequence.  In column B, a number after the legislator's name indicates the number of library projects they have requested. For example,
HCO 0013   Patricia Roybal Caballero  5 shows that Rep. Roybal Caballero of House District 13 has listed five library projects, of which the Unser Central Branch is the first.

A legislator can list an unlimited number of projects. Some legislators have three pages of requests, some have thirty pages. A page can have around eight separate projects. I'm guessing that there are two billion dollars in requests on the 129 pages summarizing everyone's requests:

https://nmlegis.gov/Publications/Capital_Outlay/Requested%20Projects%20by%20County%2023.pdf

The good news is that many more of these requests will actually be funded because of the state's extraordinary revenue surpluses. In a typical recent year, $150 million in projects were funded from a billion dollars in requests.

Eventually, legislators have to pick their priorities for which of their projects are included in House Bill 505 - Capital Outlay Requests.


Joe Sabatini, Co-Chair
NMLA Legislation Committee

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