A. The revenue stabilization and tax policy committee shall be composed of eighteen members. Nine members of the house of representatives shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and nine members of the senate shall be appointed by the committees' committee of the senate or, if the senate appointments are made in the interim, by the president pro tempore of the senate after consultation with and agreement of a majority of the members of the committees' committee.

B. Members shall be appointed from each house so as to give the two major political parties in each house the same proportional representation on the committee as prevails in each house; however, in no event shall either party have less than one member from each house on the committee. Vacancies on the committee shall be filled by appointment in the same manner as the original appointments. If a regular member is going to be absent from a committee meeting, the regular member may designate a legislator from the same house and party to serve in the regular member's place at the meeting if the member notifies the chairman of the committee of the anticipated absence and notifies the designee at least twenty-four hours before the committee meeting. The regular member shall select the designee from a list of potential designees appointed by the appointing authority for each house. The list shall be maintained in the offices of the legislative council service. The chairman and vice chairman of the committee shall be designated by the New Mexico legislative council.

C. No action shall be taken by the committee if a majority of the total membership from either house on the committee rejects such action.

History: Laws 1994, ch. 90, § 2; 2003, ch. 223, § 1.

The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, inserted "revenue stabilization and tax policy" near the beginning of Subsection A; and in Subsection B, added the last three sentences and substituted "designated by the New Mexico legislative council" for "elected by the committee".