[LWVNM Action] Some funding for Legislative staff and study of district staff in HB1

[Richard Mason]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 8:18 AM Elizabeth Bardwell <betbardwell at gmail.com>
wrote:

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).
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