As used in the Sunshine Portal Transparency Act:

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A. “contract” means an agreement with a state agency for:

(1)     the rendition of services, including professional services; (2)     the furnishing of any material, supplies or equipment;

(3)     the construction, alteration or repair of any public building or public work; (4)     the acquisition, sale or lease of any land or building;

(5)     a licensing arrangement;

(6)     a loan or loan guarantee; or

(7)     the purchase of financial securities or instruments;

B. “department” means the department of information technology, or its successor agency;

C. “exempt employee” means an employee of the state or a state agency who is in a policymaking or supervisory position and who serves at the discretion of the agency head or at the discretion of an appointee of the agency head;

D. “expenditure” means:

(1)     for a state agency, a disbursement of state or federal funds by the state agency, whether or not the funds have been appropriated by the legislature; or

(2)     for a local education provider, a disbursement of federal, state or other funds by the local education provider;

E. “federal funds” means money received by a state agency from the federal government or one of its branches, departments, agencies, offices, officers or instrumentalities;

F. “local education provider” means:

(1)     a school district, including the local school board for that school district; or

(2)     a locally chartered or state-chartered charter school, including the governing body of that charter school;

G. “revenue” means:

(1)     for a state agency, money received by the state agency and deposited into the general fund or another state fund. “Revenue” includes money from taxes, fines, fees, royalties, federal funds and other sources but does not include money deposited into a state suspense fund; or

(2)     for a local education provider, all money received by the local education provider, including federal and state grants, state distributions, property tax revenues and donations; and

H. “state agency” means the New Mexico state government or any department, division, institution, board, bureau, commission or committee of state government and includes any office or officer of any of the above.