House Appropriations Committee to Review General Fund Estimates

The House and Sen?ate both go back into ses?sion at 10 a.m. on Thurs?day. Since today?s House floor ses?sion ran late, House Appro?pri?a?tions resched?uled its revenue/budget review until Thursday.

HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
Room 307
Thurs?day, Jan. 17
1:30 p.m. ? Full Com?mit?tee Hear?ing
Ori?en?ta?tion Ses?sion
Gen?eral Fund Esti?mates
Deme?sia Padilla, sec?re?tary, Tax?a?tion & Rev?enue Depart?ment
Tom Clif?ford, sec?re?tary, Depart?ment of Finance and Admin?is?tra?tion
David Abbey, direc?tor, Leg?isla?tive Finance Com?mit?tee
Pre?sen?ta?tion of FY14 LFC and Exec?u?tive Rec?om?men?da?tions
Tom Clif?ford, sec?re?tary, Depart?ment of Finance and Admin?is?tra?tion
David Abbey, direc?tor, Leg?isla?tive Finance Committee

No Sen?ate com?mit?tees have been sched?uled as of this?hour.

House mem?bers spent much of their leg?isla?tive day intro?duc?ing bills and fig?ur?ing out com?mit?tee assign?ments. Of par?tic?u?lar inter?est, since Rep. Rick Miera (D-Albuquerque) moved up to major?ity floor leader, his long?time House Edu?ca?tion chair?man?ship goes to Rep. Mimi Stew?art (D-Albuquerque). Rep. Gail Chasey (D-Albuquerque) will chair House Judi?ciary. Sev?eral chairs remain the same, includ?ing Rep. Kiki Saave?dra (D-Albuquerque) in House Appro?pri?a?tions and Finance, and Rep. Edward San?doval (D-Albuquerque) in Tax?a?tion and Rev?enue. The House also passed HB 1, the feed bill, which now goes to Sen?ate Finance.

Sen?a?tors also spent much of their day intro?duc?ing bills. The ses?sion is 30 hours old, and already we have 235 bills in the hop?per, not count?ing assorted memo?ri?als, res?o?lu?tions, etc. We saw a num?ber of retire?ment bills today (HB 64, HB 96, SB 86 and SB 115) as well as bills deal?ing with HSC pri?or?i?ties. Here are sev?eral of the new bills of interest:

HB 2 GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2013 Spon?sor: Henry Kiki Saave?dra
MAKING GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES REQUIRED BY?LAW

HB 11 GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2013 Spon?sor: Luciano ?Lucky? Varela
MAKING GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES REQUIRED BY?LAW.

HB 64 EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT CHANGES Spon?sor: Mimi Stew?art
RELATING TO PENSIONS; AMENDING THE EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT ACT; INCREASING CERTAIN MEMBERS? CONTRIBUTION RATES; CHANGING THE BENEFITS FOR NEW MEMBERS BY IMPOSING A MINIMUM RETIREMENT AGE, DELAYING THE COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT ELIGIBILITY AND INCREASING THE AGE AND SERVICE RETIREMENT REQUIREMENTS

HB 69 UNM HEALTH CENTER COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH Spon?sor: Mimi Stew?art
Two hun?dred fifty thou?sand dol?lars ($250,000) is appro?pri?ated from the gen?eral fund to the board of regents of the uni?ver?sity of New Mex?ico for expen?di?ture in fis?cal year 2014 for the health sci?ences cen?ter to plan a col?lege of pub?lic health.

HB 70 NMFA PUBLIC PROJECT REVOLVING FUND PROJECTS Spon?sor: Patri?cia A. Lund?strom
AUTHORIZING THE NEW MEXICO FINANCE AUTHORITY TO MAKE LOANS FOR PUBLIC PROJECTS FROM THE PUBLIC PROJECT REVOLVING FUND;
11. The Board of Regents of the Uni?ver?sity of New Mex?ico in Bernalillo County for build?ing, equip?ment, infra?struc?ture, debt refi?nance, road, land acqui?si?tion, water, waste?water, water rights and solid waste projects;

HB 69 UNM HEALTH CENTER COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH Mimi Stew?art
HEC/HAFC

HB 71 UNM-GALLUP AS COMMUNITY COLLEGE Spon?sor: Patri?cia A. Lund?strom
Autho?riz?ing the Gallup Branch of the Uni?ver?sity of new mex?ico to become an inde?pen?dent com?mu?nity col?lege; pro?vid?ing for a tran?si?tion period; requir?ing the higher edu?ca?tion depart?ment to assist in a fea?si?bil?ity?study.

HB 80 UNM DENTAL SCIENCE PROGRAM Spon?sor: Miguel P. Gar?cia
Four hun?dred thou?sand dol?lars ($400,000) is appr?popri?ated from the gen?eral fund to the board of regents of the uni?ver?sity of New Mex?ico for expen?di?ture in fis?cal year 2014 to fund plan?ning for a bach?e?lor of arts and doc?tor of den?tal sci?ence pro?gram by the health sci?ences center.

HB 96 EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT SICK LEAVE Spon?sor: Den?nis J. Roch
Relat?ing to edu?ca?tional retire?ment; per?mit?ting the con?ver?sion of unused sick leave to ser?vice credit for retire?ment purposes

HB 112 DATA IN SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTS Spon?sor: Jane E. Powdrell-Culbert
PROVIDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL AND PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTS TO INCLUDE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DISAGGREGATED BY CERTAIN FACTORS.

SB 86 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE AVERAGE SALARY CALCULATIONS Spon?sor: Sue Wil?son Bef?fort
AMENDING THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ACT TO PROVIDE A LIMIT IN THE CALCULATION OF THE FINAL AVERAGE SALARY OF NON-PUBLIC SAFETY MEMBERS; DEFINING ?PUBLIC SAFETY MEMBER?; AMENDING THE EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT ACT TO PROVIDE A LIMIT IN THE CALCULATION OF ANNUAL AVERAGE SALARY.

SB 87 UNM HEALTH WORKFORCE ANALYSIS Spon?sor: Jacob Can?de?laria
Two hun?dred sixty-five thou?sand dol?lars ($265,000) is appro?pri?ated from the gen?eral fund to the board of regents of the uni?ver?sity of New Mex?ico for expen?di?ture in fis?cal year 2014 for the health sci?ences cen?ter to add staffing for the cen?ter for health work?force analysis

SB 89 PUBLIC PROPERTY NAMING PROCESS Spon?sor: Mark Moores
PROHIBITING PUBLIC PROPERTY OR PUBLICLY FUNDED PROGRAMS TO BE NAMED AFTER LIVING PERSONS OR PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHILE THEY ARE IN OFFICE; REQUIRING A PROCESS FOR NAMING PUBLIC PROPERTY.

SB 97 EXPAND HEALTH FOCUS CENTERS Spon?sor: Jacob Can?de?laria
Two mil?lion two hun?dred thou?sand dol?lars ($2,200,000) is appro?pri?ated from the gen?eral fund to the board of regents of the uni?ver?sity of New Mex?ico for expen?di?ture in fis?cal year 2014 for the health sci?ences cen?ter to expand exist?ing FOCUS (fam?ily options car?ing under?stand?ing solu?tions) and Mila?gro pro?grams and to fund per?son?nel and sup?port for, and eval?u?a?tion of, three FOCUS cen?ters of excellence.

SB 98 SUPPLEMENTAL SEVERANCE TAX BONDS Spon?sor: Car?los R. Cis?neros
Amend?ing the sev?er?ance tax bond?ing act to tem?porar?ily allow the state board of finance to issue sup?ple?men?tal road sev?er?ance tax bonds and sup?ple?men?tal higher edu?ca?tion sev?er?ance tax?bonds

SB 115 EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT CHANGES Spon?sor: Stu?art Ingle
Relat?ing to pen?sions; amend?ing the edu?ca?tional retire?ment act; increas?ing cert?ian mem?bers? con?tri?bu?tion rates; chang?ing the ben?e?fits for new mem?bers by impos?ing a min?i?mum retire?ment age, delay?ing the cost of liv?ing eli?ibil?ity and increas?ing the age and ser?vice retire?ment requirements.

It is leg?isla?tive tra?di?tion for the spon?sor of the 100th bill intro?duced in both the House and the Sen?ate to throw a party for his or her col?leagues. For some inex?plic?a?ble rea?son, the Sen?ate passed right over SB 100 today. In the House, Rep. Don Tripp (R-Socorro) got the luck of the draw. His HB 100 pro?motes farm?ers? markets.

Susan McK?in?sey, Office of Gov?ern?ment and Com?mu?nity Relations

Source: http://news.unm.edu/2013/01/house-appropriations-committee-to-review-general-fund-estimates/

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