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| SPONSOR: | Picraux | DATE TYPED: | 01/29/01 | HB | 131 | ||
| SHORT TITLE: | UNM Para Los Ninos Pediatric Speciality Clinic | SB | |||||
| ANALYST: | Moran | ||||||
| Recurring
or Non-Rec |
Fund
Affected | ||||
| FY01 | FY02 | FY01 | FY02 | ||
| $ 198.0 | Recurring | General Fund | |||
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Commission on Higher Education
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 131 appropriates $ 198,000 from the general fund to the Board of Regents of University of New Mexico for the purpose of paying salaries and benefits to three full-time-equivalent positions, a physician, a program manager and a mental health therapist, and paying the costs of staff development, moving expenses and computer technology and office equipment at the University of New Mexico's Para Los Ninos Pediatric Specialty Clinic of the Children's Hospital of New Mexico.
Significant Issues
A request was not included in UNM's budget request to the UNM Board of Regents, and thus was not submitted by UNM to the Commission on Higher Education for review or to the LFC for analysis during the interim.
PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS
Though not necessarily a matter of performance-based budgeting, the Commission on Higher Education suggests the following language for all new recurring higher education programs and expansion of current programs (assuming that funding will continue beyond 2001-2002):
"The institution receiving the appropriation in this bill shall submit a program evaluation to the Legislative Finance Committee and the Commission on Higher Education by August 2, 2004 detailing the benefits to the State of New Mexico from having this program implemented for a three year period."
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $ 198.0 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY02 shall revert to the general fund.
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