SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A 60-day lawmaking session is just months away and New Mexico's state agencies are now stacking up their requests for how much money they'll need in the next budget, from tourism to veterans affairs. Story continues below Business: Three prominent Nob Hill restaurants close their doors Health: Syphilis surges in New Mexico, NMDOH orders increased testing Community: Roswell residents pick up the pieces after record breaking rain and deadly flooding News: APD’s report on deadly crash involving BCSO deputy said deputy is partly to blame Leaders across New Mexico's state agencies are filtering into the Legislative Finance Committee, which holds the purse strings to the budget. "Essentially what we are requesting is about a 3.3 percent increase in recurring," said Lancing Adams, acting secretary of the New Mexico Tourism Department. Tourism wants roughly $790,000 for new positions: "Our vacancy rate is incredibly low. We are doing everything we can, capacity-wise, to just maximize what we do everyday," Adams said. Their special requests include $16 million for marketing, $2 million for a centralized state agency marketing office, and $2 million for litter clean-up campaigns. Meanwhile, the New Mexico Environment Department is asking, in part, for nearly half a billion for special projects. "The majority of this $474 million is gonna be in two specials—[it] is gonna be $150 million for non-superfund site clean-up initiatives and then $250 [million to] the strategic water supply," said Austin Davidson, analyst for the Legislative Finance Committee. The New Mexico Veterans' Services Department wants more money for new employees like a social worker for the Suicide Prevention Act. "I think that's gonna be very important as we continue to see the behavioral health professionals not available in our rural areas and providing some other opportunities for oversight in the prevention pieces," said Brigadier General Jamison Herrera, secretary of the Veterans' Services Department. They also want $15 million for a Veterans Resource Center, and more than $5 million to fix up veterans cemeteries in the state. The New Mexico Indian Affairs Department wants a half million for more employees. "What is important to me in these next couple of years is to ensure that we have the personnel and the expertise to be able to actually provide some good assistance in working with our other sister agencies," said Josett Monette, secretary of the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department. Finally, the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department is also asking the state for millions to fund more vehicles and compliance officers for the Cannabis Control Division.