House Bill 1 (Feed Bill) contains increases in LCS' budget for staffing and contractual services including increase in staffing in interim session; and increases in Chief Clerk's Office (responsible for constituent services) and $2.5M in funding for consultants to consider feasibility and make recommendations to LCS on logistics and resources needed for district staff offices and operations of the legislature.  

Section 3 Legislative Council Service

Subsection A: for fiscal year 2024, the following:

Personal Services & Employee Benefits $6,652,100 [increase of ~$1.795M from 2021]
Contractual Services 820,000 [increase of ~$462K from 2021]
Other Costs 1,076,700
Total $8,548,800;

Subsection B: B. for expenditure in fiscal years 2023 and 2024, seven hundred twenty thousand dollars ($720,000) for additional interim committee staff or contractors to support interim committees and to provide legal and policy research or other services necessary to support the legislature.

Section 4 Legislature

Subsection L: for expenditure in fiscal years 2023 and 2024, to hire a consulting entity to consider the feasibility of and make recommendations to the New Mexico legislative council on

the logistics and resources needed for district staff offices and operations for the legislature, two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000).