[Nmtriblibs] FW: NMLA Legislative Bulletin #15

[Moore, Patricia, DCA]

Forwarded on behalf of Joe Sabatini....  Thank you, Joe.


From: Joe Sabatini <jsabatini423 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2024 7:30 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] NMLA Legislative Bulletin #15

NMLA Legislative Bulletin #15                                                                                                                                                      February 8, 2024
Special Bulletin on Capital Outlay Projects

FLOOR ACTIONS

House Bill 134, three times amended, the Tribal Education Trust Fund was debated and then passed the House by a vote of 68-0.  Some of the revenue generated by this trust fund could be directed to tribal libraries if those libraries are under their tribe's education department.
The webcast is at: https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00293/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20240208/-1/74705
Debate begins at 11:57:45. Rep. Lente introduces an amendment with several corrections at 12:00:25. There is extended discussion. The motion to pass begins at 1:39.


House Bill 123, PROSCRIBING THE BANNING OF LIBRARY MATERIALS by Kathleen Cates, Harold Pope, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Cristina Parajon and Natalie Figueroa
HB 123 is on the Third Reading of Legislation agenda for tomorrow's House session. It is the 22nd of 64 bills on the calendar.

CAPITAL OUTLAY PROJECTS

Senate Bill 275, Capital Outlay Projects by Senator Nancy Rodriguez, is in the Senate Finance Committee. The current text of the bill does not yet show any of the projects requested in each legislator's Capital Projects request. These are shown on the Legislature's webpage at https://www.nmlegis.gov/Search . When one gets to this page, change the settings so that only the 2024 Regular Session is shown, and uncheck all the Categories except for the Capital Outlay Requests box. This will produce 111 capital outlay requests. Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto did not submit a request. Each House member is listed by their district number. Each Senator is listed alphabetically. e.g. HCO 1
CAPITAL PROJECTS FOR REPRESENTATIVE ROD MONTOYA; SCO 1
CAPITAL PROJECTS FOR SENATOR GREGORY A. BACA. Clicking on the HCO or SCO link will show the list of projects that that legislator submitted for consideration. A typical Senate request might list 120 individual projects. A typical House request might list 75 individual projects.

The attached charts show every library-related project submitted by individual legislators.

Combined, 42 Representatives and 27 Senators put in 215 requests for 56 projects requesting $34,688,862 in capital outlay funding. You will see that the same project will be listed by up to eight legislators. Representatives and Senators from a particular area will team up to support a particular project. This is important when the actual Capital Outlay Projects bill is assembled. There are several thousand individual projects costing several billion dollars seeking to share in a set amount of money. I don't have the actual amounts at hand, but there may be somewhat more than a billion dollars in available funds.

Historically, the Legislature has divided the money so that one third of the funding goes to projects requested by the Governor, one third to the House and one third to the Senate. Each Representative and Senator is allocated a share of their chamber's allocation. They must select their priority projects from all of the projects they listed. The Senate Finance Committee then assembles the selected projects and inserts them into Senate Bill 275. The Committee hears the bill and sends it to the Senate Floor. It is a priority bill, so it is debated and passed quickly. Then SB 275 goes to the House, where the House Taxation and Revenue Committee hears and passes it. The House then debates and passes it, typically in the last hours of the session.  Sometimes the House makes changes in the bill, so it must go back to the Senate, which either concurs with the changes or holds with its original version. This requires a Conference Committee to resolve these differences. All this happens under the pressure of the fixed time the Legislature must adjourn, at noon next Thursday February 15th.

The charts of suggested projects show which libraries put up capital projects for funding, and which legislators listed those projects.  After the bill passes and is signed by the Governor, the Legislative Council Service assembles a list of which projects each legislator actually submitted for the final bill. This is issued several weeks after final action has been taken, and we will issue a Legislative Bulletin when it comes available.

Joe Sabatini, Co-Chair
NMLA Legislation Committee
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