HOUSE BILL 110

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

INTRODUCED BY

Jeannette O. Wallace

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS DECONTAMINATION TRAINING TO EMERGENCY RESPONDERS.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of public safety for expenditure in fiscal year 2009 to contract for services with New Mexico-resident vendors for state-of-the-art training, using concurrent performance feedback, of volunteer and full-time firefighters, law enforcement personnel and other emergency responders to decontaminate people involved in a hazardous materials, radioactive or terrorism event. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2009 shall revert to the general fund.