45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

RELATING TO TOBACCO SETTLEMENT REVENUE; MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT PROGRAM FUND.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--

A. The following amounts are appropriated from the tobacco settlement program fund to the following agencies for the specified purposes for expenditure in fiscal year 2002:

(1) five million dollars ($5,000,000) to the department of health for comprehensive tobacco use prevention and cessation programs that are community based, culturally appropriate and designed to achieve the "best practices" standards developed by the federal centers for disease control;

(2) one million dollars ($1,000,000) to the department of health for diabetes prevention programs;

(3) two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) to the department of health to contract for a program of primary prevention home visits to families of newborns, from the prenatal stage to age three, with priority to be given to at-risk families;

(4) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to the department of health to fund breast cancer and cervical cancer treatment for low-income women;

(5) one million dollars ($1,000,000) to the department of health to contract for mobile prenatal and neonatal medical services in rural areas of Dona Ana county;

(6) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for the health sciences center to contract for research on emphysema and lung cancer detection and treatment, including five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to include women in studies on early detection of lung cancer;

(7) two million nine hundred thousand dollars ($2,900,000) to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for the health sciences center for research, clinical care and prevention of tobacco-related illnesses, including one hundred forty thousand dollars ($140,000) for core support of the master's in public health program at the health sciences center;

(8) two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) to the state department of public education to contract for media literacy tobacco use prevention intervention programs for school-age children; and

(9) six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) to the New Mexico veterans' service commission to contract for assistance to veterans with lung disease in a transitional living center for homeless veterans.

B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2002 shall revert to the tobacco settlement program fund.