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Duplicates/Conflicts with/Companion to/Relates to None.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Department of Finance and Administration

Department of Labor

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 202 makes a $700.0 thousand appropriation to the Department of Finance and Administration, Local Government Division for the purpose of providing transportation services for welfare-to-work program participants in southwest Bernalillo County.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The cost of the bill is $700.0 thousand to the general fund. The cost is recurring because the state's current welfare-to-work grants can be spent over three years.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

Both the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) and the Labor Department suggest that the appropriation should be made to an agency other than DFA. The labor department reports that it should administer the program as it is the agency charged with administration of welfare-to-work funds.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

The Labor Department maintains that the grant should not be restricted to southwest Bernalillo County, but extended to the entire county. Their suggestion is based on administrative difficulties in defining the area and population as well as on need for welfare-to-work transportation services throughout the county. The Labor Department also requests that the funds be made available as match to the welfare-to-work grant.

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