HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL 476

45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2002









AN ACT

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE; MAKING APPROPRIATIONS.



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

Section 1. LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the legislative council service for expenditure in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 for the following purposes:

A. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a study of the permanent funds and other funding options for a permanent revenue source to fund education reform measures;

B. twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for an interim land grant committee; and

C. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for a study of the economic feasibility of additional natural gas pipelines.

Section 2. JUDICIAL APPROPRIATIONS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the following agencies for expenditure in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 for the following purposes:

A. to the second judicial district court, thirty-two thousand dollars ($32,000) to contract for a women's reentry drug treatment pilot project;

B. to the ninth judicial district court, twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) for courtroom audio equipment; and

C. to the administrative office of the district attorneys, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to maintain the district attorney automation system.

Section 3. EXECUTIVE APPROPRIATIONS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the following agencies for expenditure in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 for the following purposes:

A. to the department of finance and administration:

(1) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to implement the Individual Development Account Act, contingent on House Bill 54 of the forty-fifth legislature, second session, becoming law;

(2) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to begin implementation of a solid waste program in Valencia county;

(3) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for activities related to the Rio Jemez drainage basin water settlement;

(4) ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to train and equip a snowmobile search and rescue team in Rio Arriba county;

(5) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to reimburse counties for expenses of incarcerating certain offenders in county jails, contingent on House Bill 354 of the forty-fifth legislature, second session, becoming law;

(6) fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000) to fund the Taos county DWI teen court program;

(7) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a woodworking and furniture industry survey in Santa Fe; and

(8) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the interagency benefits advisory committee, contingent on passage of House Joint Memorial 80 of the forty-fifth legislature, second session;

B. to the economic development department:

(1) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the state cooperative advertising program;

(2) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for a farmers' market economic development plan in Santa Fe;

(3) sixty-six thousand dollars ($66,000) to promote the Adventure Gallup program;

(4) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a Chimayo chile seed bank; and

(5) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for manufacturing extension services;

C. to the public regulation commission:

(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to participate in federal energy regulatory commission hearings for regional transmission organization standards;

(2) authorization for each commissioner to hire one full-time-equivalent employee as an assistant; and

(3) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for personal services and employee benefits and operating costs supplementals;

D. to the general services department, three hundred seventy thousand dollars ($370,000) for New Mexico state fair general liability insurance;

E. to the office of cultural affairs:

(1) ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) for Fort Selden state monument preservation activities;

(2) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for a statewide performing arts touring program;

(3) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a year-round youth education program in performing arts in Santa Fe county; and

(4) fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the institute for Spanish arts;

F. to the energy, minerals and natural resources department, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to match federal funds for the twenty community national forestry plan projects in Catron county;

G. to the water project fund, eight million six hundred thousand dollars ($8,600,000) for the purposes of the fund;

H. to the New Mexico office of Indian affairs:

(1) forty-two thousand dollars ($42,000) for community-based youth leadership programs in Tohatchi and surrounding communities in McKinley county; and

(2) eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) for a business development plan for Mexican Springs in McKinley county;

I. to the state agency on aging:

(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for adult home daycare services; and

(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for Alzheimer's respite care services;

J. to the human services department, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the statewide food bank program;

K. to the vocational rehabilitation division of the state department of public education, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for independent living services in under- or un-served counties;

L. to the governor's committee on concerns of the handicapped, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for a safe building conference;

M. to the department of health:

(1) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for a black tar heroin prevention program in Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties;

(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to immunize preschool children for hepatitis A as a condition of school enrollment; and

(3) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for statewide mental health services;

N. to the children, youth and families department, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for a juvenile detention alternative program;

O. to the corrections department:

(1) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for women's inpatient substance abuse treatment;

(2) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for a pilot day reporting program for female inmates in Bernalillo county;

(3) seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) for Native American spiritual advisors; and

(4) ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) for state prisoner transportation and meals in San Miguel county;

P. to the state highway and transportation department:

(1) ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) for public transportation services in Grant county;

(2) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for noxious weed eradication on highway rights of way; and

(3) eighty-three thousand dollars ($83,000) for the rural transit assistance program;

Q. to the state department of public education:

(1) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for community arts and cultural education programs in Barelas, Martineztown, San Jose, Sawmill and Downtown neighborhoods in Albuquerque in Bernalillo county;

(2) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for school-to-work programs;

(3) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the recruitment of teachers;

(4) eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) for redistricting of certain school districts, contingent on House Bill 153 of the forty-fifth legislature, second session, becoming law;

(5) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) to align curricula with content standards and benchmarks and competency examinations; and

(6) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for educational technology at the Montezuma elementary school in Albuquerque.

R. to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico, seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the high school mock trial program;

S. to the board of regents of New Mexico state university:

(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the alliances for underrepresented students and science, mathematics, engineering and technology for students with disabilities;

(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the cooperative extension service to produce and distribute a divorce prevention booklet;

(3) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for salt cedar and other phreatophyte management in the Rio Grande;

(4) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to improve the economic sustainability of the chile industry;

(5) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to supplement the nursing education program at the Alamogordo branch;

(6) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for northeast soil and water conservation districts to control noxious non-native vegetation; and

(7) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the southwest border and cultural institute;

T. to the board of regents of western New Mexico university, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the active learning project and the Gila instructional network;

U. to the board of regents of northern New Mexico state school:

(1) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for an educational program and study to designate a heritage area in Taos, Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties; and

(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for middle school teacher training in science, mathematics and technology;

V. to the extended learning fund, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the New Mexico virtual college; and

W. to the governing board of San Juan college:

(1) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to supplement the nursing education program; and

(2) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for an oil and gas field training program.

Section 4. REVERSION.--Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2003 shall revert to the general fund.

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