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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Forwarded on behalf of Joe Sabatini…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Joe Sabatini <jsabatini423@gmail.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 5, 2023 6:22 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> NMLA 2023 Legislative Bulletin #5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NMLA 2023 Legislative Bulletin #5 February 5, 2023</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> COMMITTEE HEARINGS</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rural Libraries Endowment Fund.</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 214 appropriates $37 million to the fund. The bill will be heard in the Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee on Tuesday morning, February 7th. It is the
second of four bills scheduled to be heard. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">San Miguel County Rural Libraries.
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 258 appropriates $42,000 for rural library services in San Miguel County. The bill will be heard in the Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee on Tuesday
morning, February 2nd. It is the third of four bills scheduled to be heard.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">These two bills were scheduled to be heard on February 2<sup>nd</sup>, but the Committee did not get to them.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SENATE INDIAN, RURAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senator Shannon D. Pinto, Chair</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senator Bill O'Neill, Vice Chair</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senator Ron Griggs-Ranking Member, Senator Benny Shendo, Jr.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senator Joshua A. Sanchez, Senator Daniel A. Ivey-Soto</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AGENDA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">DATE TIME ROOM</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tuesday, February 7, 2023 9:30AM 303</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SB 25 FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE MATCHING FUND (MUÑOZ)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SB 214 RURAL LIBRARIES ENDOWMENT FUND (ORTIZ Y PINO/HERRERA)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SB 258 SAN MIGUEL LIBRARY SERVICES (STEFANICS/CAMPOS)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SB 33 TRIBAL & PUEBLO LAW ENFORCEMENT (SHENDO/LITTLE)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For public participation please click on the link to join the ZOOM WEBINAR:</span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4330437643">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4330437643</a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">or via telephone US: +1 719 359 4580</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Webinar ID 433 043 7643</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To provide written comments please email
<a href="mailto:SIRC.Zoom@nmlegis.gov">SIRC.Zoom@nmlegis.gov</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For viewing purposes only: Meeting may be viewed via webcast at
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.nmlegis.gov">www.nmlegis.gov</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(Click on the Webcast tab and select Indian, Rural, and Cultural Affairs)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">National History Day Program Schools</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senate Bill 270 by Senator Hemphill appropriates $200,000 to the Department of Cultural Affairs to support schools that participate in the National History Day Program.
The New Mexico State Library would contract with the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities to assist them in conducting the annual New Mexico History Day competition in public and other schools. SB 270 was heard in the Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs
Department on February 3<sup>rd</sup>. It was given a do-pass recommendation on a 5-0 vote, and is now awaiting a hearing in the Senate Finance Committee.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The webcast is at
<a href="https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00293/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20230205/-1/70728">
https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00293/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20230205/-1/70728</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Testimony on SB 270 begins at 10:06:00. Committee questions begin at 10:11:45. The vote is at 10:22:10. State Librarian Eli Guinnee served as the expert witness for Senator
Hemphill. The bill text is below.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Joe Sabatini, Co-Chair</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NMLA Legislation Committee</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Bill Texts</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SENATE BILL 214<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">56TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2023
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">INTRODUCED BY Gerald Ortiz y Pino and Susan K. Herrera
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE RURAL LIBRARIES ENDOWMENT FUND. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION. --Thirty-seven million dollars ($37,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the rural libraries endowment fund for expenditure in fiscal
year 2024 and subsequent fiscal years for the purposes of the fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SENATE BILL 258<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">56TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">INTRODUCED By Elizabeth "Liz" Stefanics and Pete Campos and Ambrose Castellano<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION FOR SAN MIGUEL COUNTY TO PROVIDE LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
FOR RURAL AREAS OF THE COUNTY.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION. --Forty-two thousand dollars ($42,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the local government division of the department of finance and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">administration for expenditure in fiscal year 2024 for San Miguel county to provide library and community services in rural areas of the county. Any unexpended or unencumbered
balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2024 shall revert to the general fund<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SENATE BILL 270<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">56TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">INTRODUCED BY Siah Correa Hemphill
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE CULTURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS THAT PARTICIPATE IN THE NATIONAL HISTORY DAY PROGRAM.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION. --Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to
the library division of the cultural affairs department for expenditure in fiscal year 2024 to support schools that participate in the national history day program. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2024 shall revert
to the general fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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