HOUSE BILL 339

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Gail C. Beam

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A COORDINATED DIABETES EDUCATION AND PREVENTION NETWORK; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Eight hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($825,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal years 2005 and 2006 to contract with a statewide nonprofit organization involved in diabetes education and prevention efforts to develop a statewide network of diabetes organizations and facilitate collaborative planning, implementation and evaluation for coordinated diabetes education, prevention and management, as recommended by participants in the department of health 2004 diabetes system assessment. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

     Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.

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