Post by pavel on Feb 18, 2016 7:41:28 GMT -6
SANTA FE, N.M. — A mini-filibuster by a senator upset over several project swaps in the Legislature’s annual capital outlay bill wasn’t enough to derail the $166 million plan for funding building and renovation projects across the state.
With the Senate eventually voting 41-0 in favor of House Bill 219, the legislation now goes to the governor.
Sen. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, railed against the bill for nearly an hour, arguing that the House Ways and Means Committee’s changes to the bill diverted about $7 million from water projects funded by the original legislation.
Those projects were vetted and put forward under the state’s Water Project Fund, created in 2001 to oversee and fund water conservation and management projects in the state.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/725698/abqnewsseeker/senate-approves-166m-public-works-package.html
With the Senate eventually voting 41-0 in favor of House Bill 219, the legislation now goes to the governor.
Sen. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, railed against the bill for nearly an hour, arguing that the House Ways and Means Committee’s changes to the bill diverted about $7 million from water projects funded by the original legislation.
Those projects were vetted and put forward under the state’s Water Project Fund, created in 2001 to oversee and fund water conservation and management projects in the state.
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/725698/abqnewsseeker/senate-approves-166m-public-works-package.html