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AN ACT

MAKING GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY

STATE AGENCIES REQUIRED BY LAW.

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

Section 1. FISCAL YEAR 2002 APPROPRIATIONS.--The

following amounts are appropriated from the general fund or

other funds as indicated for the purposes specified. Unless

otherwise indicated, the appropriations may be expended in

fiscal year 2002. Unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended

or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the

end of fiscal year 2002 shall revert to the appropriate fund:

A. eighty-four thousand three hundred dollars

($84,300) is appropriated from the general fund to the second

judicial district court for a hearing officer;

B. one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000)

is appropriated from the general fund to the state agency on

aging for one full-time equivalent position and associated

costs for prescription drug assistance outreach;

C. one million dollars ($1,000,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the human services

department to establish a prescription drug-only medicaid

waiver program for persons sixty-five years of age and older

with incomes of no more than one hundred percent of the

federal poverty level and to obtain any waiver necessary

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pursuant to Section 1115 of the federal Social Security Act;

D. four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the human services

department for contracting with a statewide food bank program

to gather, pack, transport, distribute and prepare unsaleable

and surplus fresh produce to feed hungry and homeless New

Mexicans;

E. seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the labor department for

at-risk youth programs;

F. six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the department of health

for emergency medical services for expenditure in fiscal year

2002 and subsequent fiscal years, contingent on Senate Bill

302 or similar legislation of the first session of the forty-

fifth legislature becoming law;

G. seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the department of health

for operations of the Las Vegas medical center, Fort Bayard

medical center and southern New Mexico rehabilitation center;

H. seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000)

is appropriated from the general fund to the children, youth

and families department for services and programs for victims

of domestic violence and their families;

I. two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is

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appropriated from the general fund to the department of public

safety for at-risk youth services;

J. nine hundred fifty thousand dollars ($950,000)

is appropriated from the general fund to the university of New

Mexico for the college of nursing expansion; and

K. four million three hundred thousand dollars

($4,300,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the

state equalization guarantee distribution for full-day

kindergarten programs.

Section 2. CONDITIONS OF MEDICAID WAIVER

APPROPRIATIONS.--Unexpended or unencumbered balances remaining

at the end of fiscal year 2002 from appropriations made in

Subsection E of Section 5 of Chapter 64 of Laws 2001 to the

medicaid waivers activity of the long-term care program of the

department of health shall be expended to increase provider

rates in the developmental disabilities medicaid waiver

activity and developmental disabilities general fund activity

as allowed by the federal health care financing

administration.

Section 3. SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.--The following

amounts are appropriated from the general fund or other funds

as indicated for the purposes specified. Unless otherwise

indicated, the appropriations may be expended in fiscal years

2001 and 2002. Unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or

unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the

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end of fiscal year 2002 shall revert to the appropriate fund:

A. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the legislative council

service for staffing, per diem and mileage expenses associated

with a joint interim legislative redistricting committee;

B. one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000)

is appropriated from the general fund to the legislative

council service to contract for a study of impact aid funding

of public schools and the state equalization guarantee funding

formula and to pay per diem and mileage expenses of a

legislative council committee to have oversight over any rapid

response intervention program pilot if such a committee is

appointed. The appropriation is contingent on House

Appropriations and Finance Committee Substitute for House Bill

949 or similar legislation of the first session of the forty-

fifth legislature becoming law;

C. five million dollars ($5,000,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the energy, minerals and

natural resources department to compensate landowners for the

petroglyph national monument;

D. four million dollars ($4,000,000) is

appropriated from the general fund for the state equalization

guarantee distribution for enrollment growth. The

appropriation is contingent on House Bill 23 or similar

legislation of the first session of the forty-fifth

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legislature becoming law;

E. two million dollars ($2,000,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the tourism department

for general and cooperative advertising costs and Native

American tourism;

F. two million dollars ($2,000,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the office of cultural

affairs for the state library for grants to public libraries

throughout the state, to conserve New Mexico depression-era

public art, for a statewide library database for public

schools, for development of cross-cultural educational

documentaries and electronic field trips in north central and

northwestern New Mexico and for relocating the items in the

repository collections of the museum of Indian arts and

culture and the palace of the governors;

G. one million five hundred thousand dollars

($1,500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the

office of the state engineer for regional water planning;

H. three million seven hundred thousand dollars

($3,700,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the

human services department to assist with prescription drug

costs for people under two hundred percent of the federal

poverty level;

I. one million two hundred thousand dollars

($1,200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the

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state department of public education to retire Animas

independent school district bonds; and

J. ten million dollars ($10,000,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to the water and wastewater

project grant fund for administration by the New Mexico

finance authority, contingent on Senate Bill 169 or similar

legislation of the first session of the forty-fifth

legislature becoming law. Any appropriation remaining at the

end of a fiscal year shall not revert.

Section 4. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS.--The following

amounts are appropriated from the general fund, or other funds

as indicated, for expenditure in fiscal year 2001 for the

purposes specified. Disbursement of these amounts shall be

subject to the following conditions: certification by the

agency to the department of finance and administration and the

legislative finance committee that no other funds are

available in fiscal year 2001 for the purpose specified; and

approval by the department of finance and administration. Any

unexpended or unencumbered balances remaining at the end of

fiscal year 2001 shall revert to the appropriate fund:

A. nine hundred fifty-one thousand two hundred

dollars ($951,200) is appropriated from the general fund to

the university of New Mexico for utility costs;

B. five hundred one thousand two hundred dollars

($501,200) is appropriated from the general fund to New Mexico

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state university for utility costs;

C. one hundred two thousand nine hundred dollars

($102,900) is appropriated from the general fund to New Mexico

highlands university for utility costs;

D. fifty-five thousand six hundred dollars

($55,600) is appropriated from the general fund to western New

Mexico university for utility costs;

E. one hundred twenty-one thousand five hundred

dollars ($121,500) is appropriated from the general fund to

eastern New Mexico university for utility costs;

F. one hundred fifty-nine thousand nine hundred

dollars ($159,900) is appropriated from the general fund to

New Mexico institute of mining and technology for utility

costs;

G. thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars

($36,500) is appropriated from the general fund to northern

New Mexico community college for utility costs;

H. eighty thousand eight hundred dollars ($80,800)

is appropriated from the general fund to Santa Fe community

college for utility costs;

I. one hundred eighty-six thousand one hundred

dollars ($186,100) is appropriated from the general fund to

the technical-vocational institute for utility costs;

J. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to Luna vocational

technical institute for utility costs;

K. eight thousand dollars ($8,000) is appropriated

from the general fund to Mesa technical college for utility

costs;

L. twenty-nine thousand three hundred dollars

($29,300) is appropriated from the general fund to New Mexico

junior college for utility costs;

M. eighty-eight thousand dollars ($88,000) is

appropriated from the general fund to San Juan college for

utility costs;

N. sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars

($16,800) is appropriated from the general fund to Clovis

community college for utility costs; and

O. four million five hundred seventy-one thousand

dollars ($4,571,000) is appropriated from the general fund to

the state equalization guarantee for energy fuel costs. HB 997

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