HOUSE BILL 479

49th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2009

INTRODUCED BY

Mimi Stewart

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO INITIATE A PLAN TO REDUCE EXPOSURE TO MERCURY.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of environment for expenditure in fiscal year 2010 to initiate, with the assistance of the department of health, a comprehensive plan to reduce human and wildlife exposure to mercury. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2010 shall revert to the general fund.

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