HOUSE BILL 340

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

INTRODUCED BY

Sheryl Williams Stapelton





FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE



AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ELIMINATE THE WAITING LIST FOR NEW MEXICO'S MEDICAID DISABLED AND ELDERLY WAIVER PROGRAM.



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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two million one hundred thousand dollars ($2,100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the human services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2002 for the purpose of providing services for all eligible persons, up to the maximum number permitted, under New Mexico's medicaid disabled and elderly waiver program. Any unexpended or encumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2002 shall revert to the general fund.

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