Al Park
The House Judiciary Committee will consider a bill that would create a publicly accessible database of financial information from government agencies in New Mexico on Saturday.
State Rep. Al Park, the committee’s chairman, confirmed that in an e-mail that the bill will be heard when the committee meets Saturday morning in room 309 in the Roundhouse. The time of the committee meeting hasn’t yet been scheduled.
Senate Bill 195, sponsored by Republican Sen. Sander Rue and pushed heavily by Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, has already passed the Senate unanimously, but it has to pass the House Judiciary and Appropriations committees before it can be considered by the full House.
The bill would create a publicly accessible Web site database of detailed and up-to-date financial information including tax revenues, agency budgets and investment reports.