HOUSE BILL 198

44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

INTRODUCED BY

J. Paul Taylor

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SUPPORT OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH POLICY COMMISSION PROGRAMS.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--

A. Three hundred thousand two hundred dollars ($300,200) is appropriated from the general fund to the New Mexico health policy commission for expenditure in fiscal year 2000 for support of the New Mexico health policy commission in the following amounts for the following purposes:

(1) sixty-one thousand four hundred dollars ($61,400) for a health care financial analyst position;

(2) sixty-seven thousand two hundred dollars ($67,200) for a hospital quality information systems analyst;

(3) forty-one thousand six hundred dollars ($41,600) for improvements to the geographic data system; and

(4) one hundred thirty thousand dollars ($130,000) for support of the health data standards inventory program.

B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the general fund.

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