Post by pavel on Feb 13, 2016 1:50:58 GMT -6
SANTA FE – A bipartisan effort to reform New Mexico’s hodgepodge method of financing infrastructure projects ran into a wall Friday in its first House committee, likely killing it for this year’s legislative session.
House Bill 307 failed on a tie vote in the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee.
The legislation would have created a planning council to review and prioritize capital outlay spending, replacing a system under which individual legislators get an allocation for projects they select in their districts.
Proponents said they would try again next year.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/723215/news/tie-vote-stops-project-funding-reform.html
House Bill 307 failed on a tie vote in the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee.
The legislation would have created a planning council to review and prioritize capital outlay spending, replacing a system under which individual legislators get an allocation for projects they select in their districts.
Proponents said they would try again next year.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/723215/news/tie-vote-stops-project-funding-reform.html