HOUSE BILL 195

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

INTRODUCED BY

Anna M. Crook

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION AND TRANSITION FACILITY IN BERNALILLO COUNTY; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Three million two hundred thousand dollars ($3,200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of finance and administration for expenditure in fiscal years 2008 and 2009 to contract with a private entity in Bernalillo county to operate a secure, long-term, statewide, multijurisdictional residential rehabilitation and transition facility that admits persons who have been ordered to the facility by a New Mexico court. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2009 shall revert to the general fund.

     Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.

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