HOUSE BILL 156

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2004

INTRODUCED BY

Ray Begaye

FOR THE INDIAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS FOR THE TRIBAL-STATE JUDICIAL CONSORTIUM CROSS-COURT CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Fourteen thousand forty-eight dollars ($14,048) is appropriated from the general fund to the administrative office of the courts for expenditure in fiscal year 2005 for the tribal-state judicial consortium cross-court cultural exchange program to facilitate communication between state and tribal judicial systems and to improve awareness of jurisdiction and sovereignty issues, focusing on the areas of domestic violence, domestic relations and custody, child support, child abuse and neglect and juvenile justice. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2005 shall revert to the general fund.

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