HOUSE BILL 260

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

INTRODUCED BY

Antonio Lujan

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PHYSICIANS AND OTHERS AT STATE PRIMARY CARE SAFETY NET CLINICS.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--One million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2009 to support salary increases to retain physicians, advanced clinicians and dentists at the state's primary care safety net clinics pursuant to the Rural Primary Health Care Act. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2009 shall revert to the general fund.

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