SENATE BILL 453

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Kay Papen

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

RELATING TO HEALTH; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES IN DONA ANA COUNTY AND SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION--BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES.--Two million dollars ($2,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 to leverage resources and provide mobile crisis, assertive community and residential treatment services under a plan developed by the local behavioral health collaborative and approved by the interagency behavioral health purchasing collaborative, pursuant to Section 9-7-6.4 NMSA 1978, for persons with serious mental illness in Dona Ana county and southern New Mexico. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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