HOUSE BILL 158

44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

INTRODUCED BY

Jose R. Abeyta

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SUPPORT OF CERTAIN HEALTH SCIENCE PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--

A. Two million four hundred thousand dollars ($2,400,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for expenditure in fiscal years 2000 and 2001 for ongoing instruction and general purposes in the following amounts for the following specific purposes:

(1) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for specialty education in pediatrics;

(2) seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for specialty education in trauma, critical and emergency care; and

(3) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the telemedicine program.

B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2001 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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