SENATE BILL 255

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Kay Papen

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR RESPITE SERVICES, TRAINING AND MONITORING DEVICES FOR PERSONS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND OTHER DEMENTIAS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.–-

          A. Two hundred ten thousand one hundred dollars ($210,100) is appropriated from the general fund to the aging and long-term services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 to serve persons with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias in the following amounts for the following purposes:

                (1) one hundred thousand five hundred dollars ($100,500) to establish a rural, mobile daycare and respite program;

                (2) ten thousand one hundred dollars ($10,100) to implement a crisis respite and rural voucher program;

                (3) thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars ($39,500) to provide staff training in residential care facilities, home health care agencies and community-based daycare and respite programs and to emergency services personnel; and

                (4) sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) to expand project lifesaver in sheriff's departments statewide, to monitor persons who are at risk of becoming lost.

          B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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