§ 2-3-1 New Mexico legislative council created
§ 2-3-2 Legislative council service created
§ 2-3-3 Legislative council; powers; duties
§ 2-3-4 [Control of building housing legislature, adjacent utility plant and surrounding grounds.]
§ 2-3-5 [Insurance of buildings; contracts for care and management of property; records of transactions; assignment of space in buildings.]
§ 2-3-6 [Control of state library building and surrounding grounds.]
§ 2-3-7 [Insurance of building; records of transactions; contracts for care and management of property.]
§ 2-3-8 Purpose and duties of legislative council service
§ 2-3-9 [Codification of election laws; consultation with election officials.]
§ 2-3-10 [Review of election laws; recommendations as to re- registration of voters; improvement of purge laws; information made available to legislature.]
§ 2-3-11 [Director of service; qualifications; tenure; compensation.]
§ 2-3-12 Duties of director; additional employees
§ 2-3-13 [Services; confidential nature.]
§ 2-3-13.1 Legislative documents; gender-neutral language;
§ 2-3-14 Quarters; files and indexes; cooperation with and by other agencies; cooperation with other states
§ 2-3-14.1 State agencies; reports
§ 2-3-15 Reimbursement
§ 2-3-16 [Cooperation of attorney general.]
§ 2-3-17 Expenditures of funds; budgets
§ 2-3-18 Legislative fiscal analyst transferred
§ 2-3-19 Capital outlay expenditure allocations; legislators and governor; publication
§ 2-3-20 Required publication of appropriation allocations in a supplemental general appropriation act
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Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 2 > Article 3 - Legislative Council

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.