House Appropriations & Finance Committee #
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Membership and meeting agendas available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“All bills carrying appropriations or requiring expenditures of public money, when reported favorably by any other committee to which they have been referred, or which shall be considered for passage by the house shall be referred by the speaker as a regular order to the committee on appropriations and finance before being placed on third reading” (House Rules).
Legislative Finance Committee #
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Membership and meeting schedules, agendas, minutes, and handouts available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“The mission of the Legislative Finance Committee is to provide the Legislature with objective fiscal and public policy analyses, recommendations, and oversight of state agencies to improve performance and ensure accountability through the effective allocation of resources for the benefit of all New Mexicans.”
“The committee makes budgetary recommendations to the Legislature for funding state government, higher education, and public schools. The committee also prepares legislation addressing financial and management issues of state government. The Program Evaluation Unit, formerly the performance audit unit, reviews the costs, efficiency, and effectiveness of activities of state agencies and political subdivisions and recommends changes to the Legislature” (committee website).
Senate Finance Committee #
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Membership and meeting agendas available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“When any bill concerning any subject matter for which an appropriation is therein sought to be levied has been referred to the committee to which bills of such subject matter properly should be referred, such bill when reported in by such committee, unless the report is unfavorable to its passage, shall automatically be referred to the finance committee for its consideration” (Senate Rules).
