All contracts for professional services with state agencies shall be reviewed as to form, legal sufficiency and budget requirements by the general services department if required by the regulations of the department. This section does not apply to contracts entered into by the legislative branch of state government, the judicial branch of state government or the boards of regents of state educational institutions named in Article 12, Section 11 of the constitution of New Mexico.
History: Laws 1984, ch. 65, § 91; 2019, ch. 153, § 2.
Cross references. — For adoption of rules and regulations by secretary of finance and administration, see 9-6-5 NMSA 1978.
For adoption of rules and regulations by secretary of general services department, see 9-17-5 NMSA 1978.
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, removed the department of finance and administration from the responsibility of reviewing contracts for professional services with state agencies; after "general services department", deleted "or the department of finance and administration", and after "regulations of", deleted "either or both of the departments" and added "the department".
Temporary provisions. — Laws 2019, ch. 153, § 6 provided:
A. On the effective date of this act, all personnel, functions, appropriations, money, records, furniture, equipment and other property of, or attributable to, the contracts review bureau of the administrative services division of the department of finance and administration are transferred to the purchasing division of the general services department.
B. On the effective date of this act, all contractual obligations of the contracts review bureau of the administrative services division of the department of finance and administration become binding on the purchasing division of the general services department.
C. On and after the effective date of this act, rules of the department of finance and administration pertaining to the approval of professional services contracts shall be deemed to be the rules of the general services department until amended or repealed by the general services department, and all references in those rules to the department of finance and administration shall be deemed to be references to the general services department.
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