SENATE BILL 368

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2006

INTRODUCED BY

Timothy Z. Jennings

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR YOUTH MENTORING PROGRAMS FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the local government division of the department of finance and administration for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 to provide support for youth mentoring programs through a program that matches at-risk children with carefully screened mentors in Curry, Roosevelt, Chaves, Eddy, Otero, Lea and Lincoln counties. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.

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