New Mexico HB 63: STUDY INDUSTRIAL HEMP PRODUCTION & SALES

Bill Text

HB0063 

HOUSE BILL 63

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2019

INTRODUCED BY

Christine Trujillo and Patricia Roybal Caballero

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE FOR A STUDY ON HOW TO SUPPORT THE PRODUCTION AND 
SALE OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP IN NEW MEXICO.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

 SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars 
($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board 
of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure in 
fiscal year 2020 for the New Mexico department of agriculture 
to perform a study to determine how to develop the production 
and sale of industrial hemp in New Mexico. Any unexpended or 
unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2020 
shall revert to the general fund.

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