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HOUSE BILL 158
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Debra M. Sariñana and Harold Pope and Alan T. Martinez
AN ACT
RELATING TO MILITARY BASES; ENACTING THE MILITARY BASE PLANNING
AND IMPACT ACT; CREATING THE MILITARY BASE IMPACT FUND;
PROVIDING FOR GRANTS TO DEFENSE COMMUNITIES; ESTABLISHING
PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS; REQUIRING REPORTS; AMENDING,
REPEALING, ENACTING AND RECOMPILING SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 9,
ARTICLE 15 NMSA 1978; REPEALING THE SUNSET FOR THE OFFICE OF
MILITARY BASE PLANNING AND SUPPORT AND THE MILITARY BASE
PLANNING COMMISSION; MAKING APPROPRIATIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. A new Section 9-15-60 NMSA 1978 is enacted to
read:
"9-15-60. [NEW MATERIAL ] SHORT TITLE.--Sections 9-15-60
through 9-15-66 may be referred to as the "Military Base
Planning and Impact Act"."
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SECTION 2. A new Section 9-15-61 NMSA 1978 is enacted to
read:
"9-15-61. [NEW MATERIAL ] DEFINITIONS.--As used in the
Military Base Planning and Impact Act:
A. "commission" means the military base planning
commission;
B. "defense community" means a political
subdivision, including a municipality, county or special
district, that encompasses a portion of or is within a
forty-five-minute commute of a United States military base or
defense facility;
C. "defense worker" means:
(1) an employee of the United States
department of defense, including armed forces personnel and
civilian workers;
(2) an employee of a government agency or
private business or organization providing a United States
department of defense-related function who is employed at a
military facility;
(3) an employee of a business that directly
provides services or products to the United States department
of defense and whose job is directly dependent on defense
expenditures; or
(4) an employee of the United States
department of energy or an employee or a contractor for the
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United States department of energy working at a defense or
United States department of energy facility in support of a
department of defense-related project;
D. "defense worker job" means a permanent position
authorized by the United States department of defense or a
position held or occupied by one or more defense workers for
more than twelve months;
E. "department" means the economic development
department;
F. "fund" means the military base impact fund;
G. "military facility" includes military bases and
research and training facilities owned or operated or under
contract by the United States department of defense; and
H. "military office" means the office of military
base planning and support."
SECTION 3. Section 9-15-50 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2003,
Chapter 166, Section 3 and Laws 2003, Chapter 170, Section 3)
is recompiled as Section 9-15-64 NMSA 1978 and is amended to
read:
"9-15-64. DUTIES.--The [military base planning ]
commission shall:
A. obtain and evaluate information about the
federal government's considerations, plans, policies and
initiatives relating to military base realignment and closure;
B. obtain and evaluate information relating to the
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impact of federal military base realignment and closure plans
on the state's economy and the military base area's local
economy;
C. work with and provide assistance to established
community organizations that have as their purpose the support
of the long-term viability of the military bases in their local
area;
D. ensure collaboration among the community
organizations described in Subsection C of this section and an
understanding of the joint efforts between the military bases
in the state;
E. work with and provide assistance to the state's
congressional delegation on matters relating to federal base
realignment and closure plans; [and ]
F. advise the governor on measures necessary to
ensure the continued presence of military bases in the state;
G. advise the military office concerning the
development of a grant program and make recommendations for
grant awards from the fund; and
H. adopt rules regarding:
(1) the administration of grants from the
fund. The rules shall include the application procedure,
required qualifications for projects and purposes for which the
grants may be used; and
(2) the forty-five-minute commute boundary for
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each military base in New Mexico ."
SECTION 4. A new Section 9-15-65 NMSA 1978 is enacted to
read:
"9-15-65. [NEW MATERIAL ] MILITARY BASE IMPACT FUND
CREATED--GRANTS--REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS.--
A. The "military base impact fund" is created as a
nonreverting fund in the state treasury. The fund consists of
appropriations, gifts, grants and donations. The department
shall administer the fund, and money in the fund is
appropriated to the military office to provide assistance for
infrastructure projects to defense communities impacted by
realignment or potential realignment of defense worker jobs or
United States military facilities. Disbursements from the fund
shall be made by warrant of the secretary of finance and
administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the director of
the military office.
B. The military office shall implement a grant
program for infrastructure projects to:
(1) accommodate or leverage, for the benefit
of a defense community, an anticipated expansion of a military
facility or employment of defense workers at a military
facility or the retention of a military facility or employment
of defense workers at a military facility;
(2) increase the potential to retain a
military facility anticipated to be closed or a military
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mission that is anticipated to be relocated in a realignment
process initiated by the federal government;
(3) facilitate the recruitment of a new
military mission or other defense worker employer at a military
facility to replace a mission or an employer that is being or
is anticipated to be closed, reduced or relocated; or
(4) stimulate the development or recruitment
of private or public sector employers to replace an actual or
anticipated reduction in defense worker jobs due to a closure,
reduction or relocation of a military base or defense worker
employer.
C. When approving grants from the fund, the
military office shall give consideration to:
(1) the impact a project will have on the job
market in the applicable defense community;
(2) the extent to which the applicable defense
community has used its own resources to promote local economic
development;
(3) the probability that the project will
result in the:
(a) expansion of a military facility;
(b) retention of a military facility
that is at risk of being closed or relocated; or
(c) recruitment of a military or other
employer to replace the loss or anticipated loss of an existing
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military employer; and
(4) the amount of federal or other financial
assistance that will be leveraged by the grant for the project.
D. A recipient of a grant from the fund shall be
either a defense community or a regional planning organization
organized under the Regional Planning Act that has a defense
community within its planning region.
E. A grant from the fund may be made for project
construction, planning and design or purchase of interests in
land for new facilities or rehabilitation or renovation of
existing facilities; provided that a grant shall be no greater
than the lesser of ninety percent of the total cost of the
project or ninety percent of a matching requirement from a
federal or other nonstate funding source.
F. An applicant for a grant from the fund shall
provide proof satisfactory to the military office that it can
and will meet its cost-share requirements pursuant to this
section.
G. Total annual grants from the fund shall not
exceed four million dollars ($4,000,000), and no single
recipient project shall receive more than two million dollars
($2,000,000)."
SECTION 5. A new Section 9-15-66 NMSA 1978 is enacted to
read:
"9-15-66. [NEW MATERIAL ] REPORTS.--On or before November
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30, 2025, and on or before November 30 in each subsequent year,
the military office shall provide a report to the governor and
to the interim legislative committee tasked with examining
economic development issues on the status of the fund, the
projects that have received grants and rates of success of the
grantees in achieving the goals for which the grants were
made."
SECTION 6. TEMPORARY PROVISION--RECOMPILATION.--Sections
9-15-48 and 9-15-49 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2003, Chapter 166,
Section 1 and Laws 2003, Chapter 170, Section 1; and Laws 2003,
Chapter 166, Section 2 and Laws 2003, Chapter 170, Section 2,
as amended) are recompiled as Sections 9-15-62 and 9-15-63 NMSA
1978.
SECTION 7. APPROPRIATION.--Twelve million dollars
($12,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
military base impact fund for expenditure in fiscal year 2026
and subsequent fiscal years for the purposes of the fund. Any
unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a
fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.
SECTION 8. REPEAL.--Section 9-15-51.1 NMSA 1978 (being
Laws 2021, Chapter 50, Section 1) is repealed.
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