FORTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2007

February 6, 2007

Mr. Speaker:

    Your HEALTH AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

HOUSE BILL 371

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

     1. On page 3, line 14, before "shall" insert "or to the mental health division of the department of health in Sections 29-11-1 through 29-11-7 NMSA 1978 or to the department of health in Sections 43-2-1.1 through 43-2-23 NMSA 1978".

     2. On page 14, between lines 14 and 15, insert the following new section:

     Section 10. Section 43-3-10 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1985, Chapter 185, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:

     "43-3-10. DEFINITIONS.--As used in Chapter 43, Article 3 NMSA 1978:

          A. "board" means the board of county commissioners of a county;

          B. "department" means the human services department [of health];

          C. "DWI program" means a community program specifically designed to provide treatment, aftercare or prevention of or education regarding driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs;

          D. "incarceration and treatment facility" means a minimum security detention facility that provides a DWI program;

          E. "planning council" means a county DWI planning council;

          F. "screening program" means a program that provides screening or examination by alcoholism treatment professionals of persons charged with or convicted of driving while intoxicated or other offenses to determine whether the person is:

                (1) physically dependent on alcohol and thus suffering from the disease of alcoholism;

                (2) an alcohol abuser who has not yet developed the alcoholism disease syndrome but has an entrenched pattern of pathological use of alcohol and social or occupational impairment in function from alcohol abuse; or

                (3) neither an alcoholic nor an alcohol abuser such that alcoholism treatment is not necessary; and that provides referral or recommendation of such persons to the most appropriate treatment; and

          G. "statewide substance abuse services plan" means the comprehensive plan for a statewide services network developed by the department that documents the extent of New Mexico's substance abuse problem and statewide needs for prevention, screening, detoxification, short-term and long-term rehabilitation, outpatient programs and DWI programs. The plan shall be based on the continuum of care concept of a comprehensive prevention and treatment system."".

     3. Renumber the succeeding sections accordingly.

and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.                            

                             Respectfully submitted,

Mimi Stewart, Chair

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

Date

The roll call vote was 6 For 0 Against

Yes:      6

No:       0

Excused:  Steinborn, Varela

Absent:   None

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