HOUSE BILL 447

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2006

INTRODUCED BY

Dona G. Irwin

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND RURAL PORTABLE DENTAL

CLINIC SERVICES.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 to provide money to contract with a nonprofit school-based portable dental program to provide dental screening examinations and dental sealants to uninsured low-income children not eligible for medicaid but who are eligible for the free or reduced-price school lunch program in rural school districts. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.

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