MAKING GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES AND DISTRIBUTIONS FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. FISCAL YEAR 2004 GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS.--Appropriations in this section are from the general fund for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 for the purposes specified, and unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund:
A. to the administrative office of the courts:
(1) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for water rights adjudication; and
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for additional clerks in the Dona Ana county magistrate court;
B. to the second judicial district court:
(1) forty thousand two hundred dollars
($40,200) for a probation officer; and
(2) ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) for a
staff attorney;
C. to the third judicial district court, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for a new judge and associated costs, contingent upon Senate Finance Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 906 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
D. to the sixth judicial district court, two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) for a new judge and associated costs, contingent upon Senate Finance Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 906 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
E. to the eleventh judicial district court, sixty-six thousand four hundred dollars ($66,400) for personal
services and contracts;
F. to the thirteenth judicial district court, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for operational expenses;
G. to the Bernalillo county metropolitan court, five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund operational costs;
H. to the ninth judicial district attorney, one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for additional staff;
I. to the administrative office of the district attorneys, fifty-three thousand dollars ($53,000) for a network-software specialist;
J. to the taxation and revenue department, fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000) to lease a motor vehicle division
office in Mora county;
K. to the department of finance and administration:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for food delivery for homebound persons in Santa Fe;
(2) twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for mariachi conference activities;
(3) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to implement the Individual Development Account Act, contingent upon House Bill 35 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
(4) one hundred twenty thousand dollars
($120,000) to increase funding for the council of
governments;
(5) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000)
to increase reimbursement to counties for extradition,
transportation and feeding of state prisoners;
(6) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a solid waste program in Valencia county;
(7) forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to hire trainees for a youth development program for affordable housing construction in Taos county;
(8) sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for a Taos food sector opportunity program;
(9) seventy-eight thousand dollars ($78,000) for the creation of cabinet agencies, contingent upon House Floor Substitute for House Appropriations and Finance Committee Substitute for House Bill 585 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
(10) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to establish the New Mexico sentencing commission, contingent upon House Bill 510 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law; and
(11) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the New Mexico finance authority for loans to behavioral health clinics;
L. to the general services department, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the telecommunications access fund, contingent upon House Bill 675 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
M. to the office of the governor, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to create the office of homeland security;
N. to the secretary of state, ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) for voter identification cards;
O. to the border authority, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for budget expansion;
P. to the tourism department, one hundred fifty
thousand dollars ($150,000) to promote recognition,
understanding and celebration of national historic trails and
byways in New Mexico;
Q. to the economic development department:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to match federal funds for the New Mexico rural development response council; and
(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the New Mexico-Chihuahua economic development commission;
R. to the regulation and licensing department, one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for personal services and benefits and other operating expenses contingent upon Senate Bill 574 and Senate Bill 596 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law and the regulation and licensing department promulgating regulations increasing the building permit fee, installer and repairman annual license fee and the permit fee;
S. to the public regulation commission:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for an attorney in the insurance division; and
(2) five hundred fifty thousand dollars ($550,000) for operational costs of the insurance division;
T. to the office of cultural affairs:
(1) ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for library materials at the south valley library;
(2) forty-six thousand six hundred dollars
($46,600) to increase staff at Jemez state monument;
(3) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
to increase staff at Fort Selden state monument; and
(4) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for
operations and improvements at old Lincoln county memorial
monument;
U. to the department of game and fish, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the endangered species program;
V. to the office on African American affairs, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to provide for the administration and promotion of the cultural and history collection of the office;
W. to the New Mexico office of Indian affairs:
(1) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the Sandoval county Indian voting program;
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for operations of the Isleta recreation center; and
(3) forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for the Pueblo of Jemez Walatowa visitors center;
X. to the state agency on aging:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for program support; and
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for respite care for families of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia;
Y. to the human services department:
(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a food bank program in Las Cruces that provides nourishing take-home meals for low-income children; and
(2) three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) for homeless programs, including shelter, transitional housing, meals and support services;
Z. to the labor department, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the at-risk youth program;
AA. to the division of vocational rehabilitation of the state department of public education, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to provide for a cost-of-living adjustment, begin independent living programs in unserved counties and support rural independent living services;
BB. to the governor's committee on concerns of the handicapped, sixteen thousand dollars ($16,000) for one-half full-time-equivalent position for the general assistance program for persons transitioning from nursing homes;
CC. to the department of health:
(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the farmers' market nutrition program;
(2) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for respite care services for families of the developmentally disabled;
(3) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to implement the Emergency Contraception Act, contingent upon House Bill 315 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
(4) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for Native American human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome services;
(5) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for continuation of a federally initiated black tar heroin prevention program in Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos counties, including the eight northern Indian pueblos;
(6) fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) to increase the sickle cell program;
(7) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for an experiential community learning center based on a
five-acre farm school in the south valley of Bernalillo
county;
(8) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for a school-based health clinic in the west Las Vegas school district;
(9) one hundred fifty thousand dollars
($150,000) for the southern rehabilitation center pharmacy
program;
(10) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the New Mexico health service corps;
(11) eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($850,000) for developmental disabilities to provide parity between the federal waiver and state programs;
(12) two million dollars ($2,000,000) to reduce the developmental disabilities waiting list by funding one hundred sixty-seven additional slots; and
(13) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to fund department of health receiverships;
DD. to the children, youth and families department:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for the at-risk youth retail program in Bernalillo county;
(2) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for a youth shelter to serve northeast New Mexico, including San Miguel, Mora, Harding, Colfax and Union counties; and
(3) eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) to restore funding to adult protective services;
EE. to the department of military affairs, two thousand dollars ($2,000) for administrative costs for the state defense force division;
FF. to the corrections department:
(1) thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for the New Mexico women's correctional facilities child visitation program;
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the
female incarceration task force, contingent upon House Bill
582 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming
law; and
(3) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to reduce the projected inmate population by approximately three hundred inmates in fiscal year 2004. The funding shall be used primarily to create additional slots in community corrections programs that will hasten the reintegration process for as many inmates as possible;
GG. to the state department of public education:
(1) one hundred sixty-five thousand dollars
($165,000) for an educational resource center in the
southeastern region of the state;
(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for kindergarten-plus to provide for extended kindergarten for high-poverty areas;
(3) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000)
to provide a minimum salary for substitute teachers at
seventy-five percent of the average beginning teacher's
salary;
(4) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a museum-based summer day camp in Santa Fe;
(5) thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for
the accelerated reader program for Taylor middle school in
the Albuquerque public school district;
(6) twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for an
accelerated math program for Taylor middle school in the
Albuquerque public school district;
(7) two hundred seventy thousand dollars
($270,000) for personnel development programs and future
teachers training; and
(8) four million dollars ($4,000,000) to be distributed through the state equalization guarantee for arts education, which shall be determined by multiplying the full-time-equivalent MEM in department-qualified fine arts programs by the cost differential factor of 0.05;
HH. to the commission on higher education:
(1) for the governing board of San Juan college:
(a) seventy-five thousand dollars
($75,000) to develop a community-based program for
underserved youth in San Juan county;
(b) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the nursing education program; and
(c) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the oil and gas job training program; and
(2) for the community college board of Santa Fe community college, four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for the small business development center;
II. to the board of regents of the university of
New Mexico:
(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the Corinne Wolfe children's law center;
(2) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the mock trials program;
(3) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
to expand the manufacturing engineering program;
(4) eight thousand six hundred dollars
($8,600) to increase funding to Morrisey hall research;
(5) one hundred fifty thousand dollars
($150,000) to restore funding for the southwest research
center; and
(6) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for the Anderson school of business to promote its management
coursework;
JJ. to the board of regents of New Mexico state university:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the agricultural science center of the agricultural experiment station in Farmington;
(2) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for statewide agricultural programs;
(3) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000)
for the partnership in parenting education program;
(4) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to promote and develop New Mexico's farmers' market program;
(5) one hundred eighty thousand dollars ($180,000) to match federal funds for water conservation and natural resource restoration technical assistance pursuant to agreements with the United States department of agriculture's natural resources conservation service;
(6) six hundred fifty thousand dollars
($650,000) for phreatophyte eradication and control;
(7) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a pilot program of using goats on the Rio Grande to control phreatophytes;
(8) one hundred thirty thousand dollars ($130,000) to increase profitability and yield of chile and to increase the economic sustainability of the New Mexico chile industry;
(9) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to
establish a 4-H program in Mora county; and
(10) one hundred fifty thousand dollars
($150,000) for the range improvement task force to conduct
quantitative forage monitoring and assessments on public
lands;
KK. to the board of regents of western New Mexico
university:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the bachelor of science degree nursing program; and
(2) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to increase funding for the child development center;
LL. to the board of regents of eastern New Mexico university:
(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for public television facilities to convert to digital television; and
(2) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for a social work degree program; and
MM. to the board of regents of New Mexico institute of mining and technology:
(1) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000)
for the institute for complex additive systems analysis;
(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the energetic materials research and testing center; and
(3) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to match a United States department of energy grant at the petroleum recovery research center.
Section 2. FISCAL YEAR 2003 GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS.--Appropriations in this section are from the general fund for expenditure in fiscal years 2003 and 2004 for the purposes specified, and unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund:
A. to the legislative council service:
(1) twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for
the land grant committee; and
(2) two hundred fifty thousand dollars
($250,000) to study and develop a financing plan for
universal health care;
B. to the court of appeals, ten thousand dollars
($10,000) for an architectural design study for remodeling
the Albuquerque court facility;
C. to the administrative office of the courts:
(1) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) to replace federal funds for drug courts;
(2) ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for a
study of a lease versus the purchase of a building for the
Las Cruces magistrate court facility in the Dona Ana
magistrate district; and
(3) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for salaries and benefits for magistrate courts statewide;
D. to the eleventh judicial district court, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for furniture for the juvenile justice complex;
E. to the Bernalillo county metropolitan court:
(1) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for moving costs; and
(2) two hundred thirteen thousand dollars ($213,000) to establish a mental health court;
F. to the fourth judicial district attorney, three hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($375,000) for cases in Santa Rosa;
G. to the eleventh judicial district attorney:
(1) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for capital crime prosecution in division 1; and
(2) one hundred forty-five thousand dollars ($145,000) for DWI prosecutions in division 1;
H. to the thirteenth judicial district attorney, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for furniture;
I. to the office of the attorney general, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo division;
J. to the department of finance and administration:
(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to create cabinet agencies, contingent upon House Floor Substitute for House Appropriations and Finance Committee Substitute for House Bill 585 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
(2) one hundred twenty-one thousand dollars ($121,000) for the Santa Fe farmers' market;
(3) one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($190,000) for a dynamic revenue forecasting pilot project;
(4) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for a survey of low-income housing needs in Chaves county;
(5) one hundred sixty-four thousand nine hundred dollars ($164,900) for the state board of finance to repay an emergency loan to Grant county;
(6) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to
complete an asset inventory statewide;
(7) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the
facilitation of an intergovernmental process between Indian
entities and counties;
(8) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to match federal and other states' allocations for the four corners monument;
(9) one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the water and wastewater planning fund;
(10) six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) for operating expenses of the Cumbres and Toltec scenic railroad commission;
(11) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to support child abuse and neglect citizen review boards statewide; and
(12) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to continue operation, development and implementation of the state human resource system. The implementation plan shall be reviewed by the chief information officer and the legislative finance committee;
K. to the general services department, seven hundred two thousand dollars ($702,000) for increased insurance costs;
L. to the office of the governor:
(1) three hundred twenty-seven thousand dollars ($327,000) to establish the public employee labor relations board, contingent upon House Bill 508 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a Las Cruces satellite office; and
(3) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to create the office of homeland security;
M. to the state commission of public records, fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for web site and educational development;
N. to the office of the lieutenant governor, seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for salaries and benefits for employees;
O. to the state commission of public records, seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) for a records management system;
P. to the secretary of state:
(1) one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,250,000) for the electronic voting system revolving fund; and
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to develop an electronic campaign reporting system, contingent upon Senate Bill 22 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
Q. to the tourism department, one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for tourism advertising and promotion;
R. to the economic development department:
(1) one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,750,000) for recruitment and marketing;
(2) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for military base planning;
(3) seven million dollars ($7,000,000) for in-plant training;
(4) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for business incubation services in southeast Albuquerque;
(5) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for a contract for manufacturing extension services, contingent on receipt of money from the national institute of standards and technology to operate a manufacturing center in New Mexico;
(6) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to promote Las Cruces as the top small metropolitan area for business and careers and one of the best places to retire;
(7) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to develop a strategic plan for attracting and retaining film production companies; and
(8) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to contract for services that encourage and reward quality in business, education, government and health care;
S. to the office of cultural affairs:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for operations and maintenance at old Lincoln county memorial monument;
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to curate an exhibit of southern New Mexico arts at the museum of fine arts in Santa Fe;
(3) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for start-up costs for the Mesilla plaza monument;
(4) ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to
purchase "A New Mexico Story: The Bataan Death March to the
Atomic Bomb" video for every public library; for every middle
school, junior high school and high school library; and for
every armory in New Mexico;
(5) twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to provide symphonic education services at the national Hispanic cultural center of New Mexico;
(6) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to establish the New Mexico film museum in Santa Fe, contingent upon Senate Bill 701 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
(7) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for development of educational programs in historic preservation and regionalism;
(8) sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for operational expenses of the Anthony valley community library; and
(9) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to implement and operate a program for youth education in the performing arts in a year-round performing arts center in Santa Fe;
T. to the energy, minerals and natural resources department:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to update the gas transmission pipeline study;
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to complete the master plan for the Mesilla valley bosque state park; and
(3) eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) for a renewable energy and fuel cell demonstration project for on-site electric generation;
U. to the state land office, one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000) to prepare and file an original action in
the United States supreme court against the United States
department of the interior and the United States department
of agriculture to obtain title to public lands in New Mexico;
V. to the office of the state engineer:
(1) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for water planning;
(2) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the WATERS database;
(3) one million one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,150,000) for adjudications of water rights on the Pecos river and Rio Grande; and
(4) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a deep aquifer study in Lea county;
W. to the commission for deaf and hard-of-hearing persons, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for outreach efforts;
X. to the New Mexico office of Indian affairs:
(1) thirty-eight thousand dollars ($38,000) to develop the Pueblo of San Juan's geographic information system for the 911 addressing project; and
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the Jicarilla Apache Tribe historic preservation program;
Y. to the state agency on aging, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for rent payments at the temporary Cimarron senior center;
Z. to the human services department:
(1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for counseling inmates on child support;
(2) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for a medicaid waiver program for prescriptions for seniors and persons eligible for services under the state's medicaid waiver programs for the developmentally disabled and elderly and disabled persons;
(3) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for completion of the fiscal year 2002 fiscal audit;
(4) one million one hundred thousand dollars ($1,100,000) for administrative and operating costs of the state applicant link to services assistance system; and
(5) one million three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,350,000) for food stamp reimbursement costs;
AA. to the labor department, twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for an equal pay task force, contingent upon House Bill 325 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
BB. to the department of health:
(1) one million dollars ($1,000,000) for rape crisis and related programs;
(2) one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) to provide statewide sexual assault treatment and prevention programs;
(3) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for software for a commodity supplemental food program;
(4) one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) for the women's health services family care and counseling center in Santa Fe; and
(5) forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for services at the Las Cruces rape crisis center;
CC. to the department of environment:
(1) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for an ozone pollution solution in northwest New Mexico; and
(2) forty-four thousand dollars ($44,000) for a statewide environmental assessment and inventory;
DD. to the New Mexico veterans' service commission, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for taps at funerals;
EE. to the children, youth and families department:
(1) one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for legal costs associated with the Joseph A. class action suit; and
(2) one million dollars ($1,000,000) for domestic violence programs;
FF. to the department of public safety:
(1) seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for vehicle replacement;
(2) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for the crime laboratory backlog; and
(3) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for domestic violence training for law enforcement and health care personnel;
GG. to the state department of public education:
(1) two million dollars ($2,000,000) for a computerized learning system that aligns public school curricula to New Mexico academic content standards and the statewide assessment program;
(2) one million dollars ($1,000,000) for
school libraries;
(3) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to provide supplemental funding for the adult basic education program at the Alamogordo branch of New Mexico state university;
(4) ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the Santa Fe volleyball team;
(5) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for curriculum development in social studies for New Mexico history to include all perspectives and elements;
(6) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000)
for research-based reform efforts; and
(7) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for charter school incubation services;
HH. to the commission on higher education:
(1) two million dollars ($2,000,000) to expand nursing programs;
(2) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for high-skills training;
(3) three million dollars ($3,000,000) for endowed chairs contingent on Senate Bill 466 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law; and
(4) one hundred fifty-five thousand dollars ($155,000) for San Juan college to develop public school training programs;
II. to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico:
(1) one hundred sixty-five thousand dollars
($165,000) to disseminate census information and conduct a
demographic analysis;
(2) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the Taos branch to develop training programs for manpower development of miners in northern New Mexico;
(3) forty-three thousand dollars ($43,000) for a feasibility study on a passage rail system from Juarez, Mexico, to Denver, Colorado;
(4) one hundred forty-four thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($144,750) for the southwest research center;
(5) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the
mock trials program; and
(6) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for the philosophy department for scholarships;
JJ. to the board of regents of New Mexico state university:
(1) one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) for phreatophyte removal programs. The appropriation is contingent on soil and water conservation districts:
(a) developing management and native vegetation restoration plans;
(b) conducting hearings within the local conservation district to receive public input on the plans;
(c) carrying out aerial spraying only by helicopter or ground application with prior public notice;
(d) monitoring and evaluating the effects of control on wildlife, water quality, vegetation and soil health; and
(e) if control affects threatened or endangered species, the projects proponents will take action to ensure compliance with applicable federal law and conformance with any duly enacted recovery plan;
(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
for the preservation of New Mexico wild horses;
(3) seven hundred fifty thousand dollars
($750,000) for distance education technology for teacher
licensure programs; and
(4) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000)
for start-up funding for the center for border
superintendency;
KK. to the board of regents of New Mexico highlands university, seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) to assist with accounts receivable; and
LL. to the board of regents of northern New Mexico state school:
(1) two hundred thirty thousand dollars ($230,000) for a middle school science and math teacher training program; and
(2) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to plan the development and implementation of a curriculum for a middle college program.
Section 3. FISCAL YEAR 2003 OTHER STATE FUNDS APPROPRIATIONS.--Appropriations in this section are from other state funds as specified for expenditure in fiscal years 2003 and 2004 for the purposes specified, and unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the appropriate fund:
A. to the administrative office of the courts, four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000) from the magistrate court warrant enforcement fund for fiscal year 2003 leases, and any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2003 shall revert to the magistrate court warrant enforcement fund;
B. to the administrative office of the courts, one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) from the local DWI grant fund to replace federal funding for drug courts and to expand drug courts, contingent upon House Bill 190 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, or similar legislation that allows for the use of the fund for drug courts, becoming law;
C. to the department of finance and administration, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) from the local DWI grant fund for ignition interlock devices, contingent upon Senate Bill 266 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law;
D. to the department of game and fish, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) from the game protection fund for Eagle Nest lake;
E. to the state engineer:
(1) six hundred ten thousand dollars ($610,000) from the New Mexico irrigation works construction fund for the WATERS database;
(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) from the New Mexico irrigation works construction fund for adjudication of water rights on the Pecos river and Rio Grande; and
(3) two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) from the improvement of Rio Grande income fund for litigation expenses regarding federal natural resources policies;
F. to the workers' compensation administration, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) from the workers' compensation administration fund for workbooks and advertising; and
G. to the department of health, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) from fiscal year 2002 cash balances for nursing management.
Section 4. FISCAL YEAR 2004 OTHER STATE FUNDS APPROPRIATIONS.--Appropriations in this section are from other state funds as specified for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 for the purposes specified, and unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the appropriate fund:
A. to the administrative office of the courts, seven hundred eleven thousand dollars ($711,000) from the magistrate and metropolitan court capital fund for phase 2 of the magistrate court video arraignment project and to conduct a lease versus build feasibility study for the Dona Ana magistrate court in Las Cruces;
B. to the Bernalillo county metropolitan court, one million eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,850,000) from the magistrate and metropolitan court capital fund to complete construction, furnishing and equipping the new court building;
C. to the public defender department, three hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($375,000) from fiscal year 2003 cash balances for Santa Rosa cases;
D. to the state land office, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) from the state lands maintenance fund for the natural resource revenue recovery task force, contingent upon House Bill 452 of the forty-sixth legislature, first session, becoming law; and
E. to the administrative office of the courts, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) from the magistrate and metropolitan court capital fund to acquire real property for or to plan, design, construct, furnish or equip a new magistrate court building in Las Cruces for the Dona Ana magistrate district.
Section 5. MEDICAID IN THE SCHOOLS.--The appropriation
to the human services department in the General Appropriation
Act of 2003 contains up to two million dollars ($2,000,000)
for use in defining and developing an enhanced billing
capability for claims submitted under the medicaid in the
schools program. Of this amount, the department may expend
up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to be matched
with federal medicaid funds, to develop specifications for a
completely digital front-end loading system that
electronically submits claims to the department. The
remaining amount shall be made available to individual school
districts as implementation grants to be used for procurement
of such systems.
Section 6. COMPENSATION APPROPRIATIONS.--
A. Two million nine hundred forty-nine thousand six hundred dollars ($2,949,600) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of finance and administration for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 to provide salary increases subject to satisfactory job performance. The salary increases shall be effective the first full pay period after January 1, 2004, and distributed as follows:
(1) eighty thousand eight hundred dollars ($80,800) to provide the justices of the supreme court with a salary increase to ninety-nine thousand one hundred seventy dollars ($99,170); and to provide salary increases pursuant to the provisions of Section 34-1-9 NMSA 1978 to the chief justice of the supreme court; the chief judge of the court of appeals; judges of the court of appeals, district courts, metropolitan courts and magistrate courts; and child support hearing officers and special commissioners;
(2) two hundred fifty-two thousand two hundred dollars ($252,200) to provide judicial permanent employees whose salaries are not set by statute with a one percent salary increase;
(3) seven thousand four hundred dollars ($7,400) to provide salary increases for district attorneys as follows: district attorneys who serve in a district that does not include a class A county shall receive an annual salary of eighty-five thousand seven hundred eighty-five dollars ($85,785); and district attorneys who serve in a district that includes a class A county shall receive an annual salary of ninety thousand three hundred dollars ($90,300);
(4) one hundred eighty-eight thousand two hundred dollars ($188,200) to provide all district attorney permanent employees, other than elected district attorneys, with a one percent salary increase;
(5) one million nine hundred thirty-six
thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,936,800) to provide
incumbents in agencies governed by the Personnel Act with a
one percent salary increase;
(6) two hundred thirty-one thousand dollars ($231,000) to provide executive exempt employees, including attorney general employees and workers' compensation judges, with a one percent salary increase;
(7) one hundred sixty-five thousand six hundred dollars ($165,600) to provide commissioned officers of the New Mexico state police division of the department of public safety with a one percent salary step increase in accordance with the New Mexico state police career pay system;
(8) forty-five thousand eight hundred dollars ($45,800) to provide teachers in the department of health, corrections department, children, youth and families department and commission for the blind with a one percent salary increase; and
(9) forty-one thousand eight hundred dollars ($41,800) to provide permanent legislative employees, including permanent employees of the legislative council service, legislative finance committee, legislative education study committee, legislative maintenance department, the house and senate and house and senate leadership staff with a one percent salary increase.
B. One million two hundred ninety-four thousand dollars ($1,294,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the commission on higher education for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 to provide faculty of four- and two-year post-secondary educational institutions with a one-half percent salary increase. The salary increases shall be effective the first full pay period after July 1, 2003.
C. The department of finance and administration shall distribute a sufficient amount to each agency to provide the appropriate increase for those employees whose salaries are received as a result of the general fund appropriations in the General Appropriation Act of 2003. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund.
D. For those state employees whose salaries are referenced in or received as a result of non-general fund appropriations in the General Appropriation Act of 2003, the department of finance and administration shall transfer from the appropriate fund to the appropriate agency the amount required for the salary increases equivalent to those provided for in this act, and such amounts are appropriated for expenditure in fiscal year 2004. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the appropriate fund.