SENATE BILL 44

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015

INTRODUCED BY

Gerald Ortiz y Pino

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO EXPAND ACCESS TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TREATMENT AND SERVICES THROUGH SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--Sixteen million six hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($16,625,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal years 2015 through 2020 for its office of school and adolescent health to expand access to behavioral health treatment and services through school-based health centers, to expand hours of operation for existing centers and to establish twenty-two new school-based health centers by 2020. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2020 shall revert to the general fund.

     SECTION 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.

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