HOUSE BILL 154

45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2002

INTRODUCED BY

Luciano " Lucky" Varela







AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HOMELAND SECURITY CENTER AT THE NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY.



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 board of regents of the New Mexico institute of mining and technology for expenditure in fiscal year 2003 to establish the homeland security center and to expand existing programs to work with the national laboratories and military personnel and to cooperate with the university of New Mexico medical school and New Mexico state university to counter terrorism and its impact on the country. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2003 shall revert to the general fund.