Committee Substitute for SB0611FCS

SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL 611

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES.

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

Section 1. JUDICIAL PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the following agencies for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. to the supreme court, sixty-four thousand dollars ($64,000) for a paralegal position to assist staff attorneys;

2. to the administrative office of the courts:

(a) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for operational expenses of the drug court program to be used for replacement of lapsing funds, drug court expansion or implementation of new drug courts;

(b) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to contract for additional usage of judges pro tempore;

(c) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to pay the costs of producing written transcripts for indigent defendants in criminal proceedings;

(d) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for one court clerk in the Taos county magistrate court;

3. to the first judicial district court, eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) for an associate staff attorney;

4. to the second judicial district court:

(a) forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for one judicial specialist;

(b) eighty thousand four hundred eighty dollars ($80,480) for two judicial specialists;

5. to the fourth judicial district court, fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) to expand security staff, including security officers and bailiffs;

6. to the fifth judicial district court:

(a) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for one additional full-time-equivalent position;

(b) twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for a teen court program in Hobbs;

7. to the seventh judicial district court, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to establish a drug court;

8. to the eleventh judicial district court, forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) for an adult drug court in San Juan county;

9. to the twelfth judicial district court, one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) for two court reporters and one motor vehicle;

10. to the thirteenth judicial district court:

(a) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a court clerk;

(b) fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) for a court clerk;

11. to the second judicial district attorney, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to restore funding;

12. to the fourth judicial district attorney:

(a) thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) to fund a Victims of Crime Act position to aid prosecution of domestic violence cases;

(b) twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for an administrative secretary;

13. to the fifth judicial district attorney:

(a) eighty-seven thousand dollars ($87,000) for a domestic violence prevention program;

(b) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a drug awareness and prevention program for school districts in the fifth judicial district;

(d) twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for increased salaries for assistant district attorneys in Lea county;

14. to the eleventh judicial district attorney:

(a) fifty-one thousand dollars ($51,000) for a senior legal secretary in Gallup;

(b) eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) for an associate staff attorney in Gallup;

15. to the twelfth judicial district attorney:

(a) twenty-eight thousand dollars ($28,000) for a program assistant for records management;

(b) fifty-six thousand two hundred dollars ($56,200) for a domestic violence investigator in the Otero county sheriff's office;

16. to the thirteenth judicial district attorney:

(a) eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) for a violent crimes investigator;

(b) thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for a victim advocate;

Section 2. LOCAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the local government division of the department of finance and administration for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. one hundred thirty-seven thousand dollars ($137,000) for the eastern plains council of governments to conduct a summer youth employment and training program for at-risk youth in senate district 7;

2. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for a preventive health pilot program in rural areas of northwestern New Mexico that works to identify and improve the health of persons suffering from diabetes, heart disease, obesity or other preventable health conditions;

3. for the mid-region council of governments:

(a) fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) to provide stipends to qualified student interns participating in a charter school building trades and technology program in Bernalillo county;

(b) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a high-technology mentoring program at Robert F. Kennedy charter school in the Albuquerque public school district;

4. fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for a talent search for the New Mexico youth day concert to be held in Bernalillo county on the youth day holiday;

5. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for celebrations of New Mexico youth day at Los Vecinos community center in Tijeras in Bernalillo county;

6. twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to conduct before- and after-school programs in Bernalillo county to address juvenile delinquency, domestic violence and educational inadequacies;

7. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for a collaboration between Albuquerque and Bernalillo county to provide educational training for persons attempting to attain their general education development certificate;

8. fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for a bicycle repair and recycling program in the Atrisco area of the south valley in Bernalillo county;

9. twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000) for an after-school tutoring program at the John Marshall multiservice center in Albuquerque;

10. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for a fetal alcohol syndrome awareness program media campaign in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque;

11. sixty-two thousand dollars ($62,000) for a domestic violence shelter operated by Lincoln county in Ruidoso Downs;

12. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a special projects engineer in McKinley county;

13. sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for a special projects technician in McKinley county;

14. twenty-six thousand dollars ($26,000) for personnel and products for the McKinley county community pantry;

15. fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($57,500) for the Flickinger center for performing arts in Alamogordo;

16. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to conduct before- and after-school programs to address juvenile delinquency, domestic violence and educational inadequacies in Rio Rancho;

17. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for programs to support healthy marriage and healthy family living for parents and their children in Rio Rancho;

18. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for methamphetamine treatment in San Juan county;

19. one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) for methamphetamine, other drug and alcohol abuse and driving while intoxicated programs in San Juan county;

20. sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for the safe communities program in San Juan county;

21. thirty-four thousand dollars ($34,000) for education and sports programs in the Farmington park and recreation department;

22. seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) for operating costs of various community centers in San Miguel county that are not located within the city limits of Las Vegas;

23. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to update technology and train staff in Pecos;

24. fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000) for a staff position for a San Miguel county bureau of elections;

25. eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) for an athlete and coach leadership training program for junior wrestling at Santa Fe high school in the Santa Fe public school district;

26. ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for acequia youth agriculture projects for Taos, Mora and San Miguel counties;

27. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for community drug and alcohol programs in Talpa in Taos county;

28. twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for general operations for the Talpa community center;

29. twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) for a community sports program at the Talpa community center;

30. forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for a full-time-equivalent position and other operational expenses for a trolley in Estancia;

31. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for operational expenses of the driving while intoxicated memorial of perpetual tears in Moriarty;

Section 3. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE PROJECT.--One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the governor's office for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 to fund programs that support healthy marriage and healthy family living for parents and their children in Albuquerque. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 4. TOURISM DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the tourism department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the specified purposes and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to promote wild horse tourism;

2. sixty-eight thousand dollars ($68,000) for an international indigenous environmental film festival;

3. forty-two thousand dollars ($42,000) to promote the tenth anniversary of the Georgia O'Keeffe museum;

Section 5. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT PROJECT.--Eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the economic development department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for operating funds for certified business incubators in New Mexico. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 6. REGULATION AND LICENSING DEPARTMENT PROJECT.--Sixty-seven thousand dollars ($67,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the regulation and licensing department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for animal sheltering services, contingent upon the enactment into law of Senate Bill 458 or similar legislation of the first session of the forty-eighth legislature. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 7. CULTURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the cultural affairs department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to contract with a nonprofit music organization that organizes a competition in which children twelve years of age and under compete to hear their musical compositions performed in concert and recorded on compact disc;

2. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for family passes that promote the national Hispanic cultural center and allow children and their families one-time free admission to experience the arts and culture at the cultural center;

3. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for cultural and arts programs and educational outreach in Bernalillo county;

4. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for a multidisciplinary Native American film festival in Bernalillo county;

5. one hundred six thousand dollars ($106,000) to provide symphony orchestra music programs and concerts in Roswell;

Section 8. PARKS PROJECT.--Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the energy, minerals and natural resources department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for operations and maintenance at the Rio Grande nature center state park in Albuquerque. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 9. INDIAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the Indian affairs department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. ninety-two thousand dollars ($92,000) to employ a qualified person, to be located in Crownpoint, to develop a database of veterans' profiles and statistics to provide an accurate count of Navajo veterans;

2. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for two caseworkers and operational costs associated with providing case management services to victims of radiation exposure or their surviving families located in New Mexico;

3. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to provide technical assistance and the fostering of partnerships with tribal communities, state agencies and private foundations to build capacity for community and economic development;

4. fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) for a comprehensive assessment of Indian education within the eight northern Indian pueblos;

5. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to develop and implement an archival library system at the institute of American Indian arts;

6. fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) to fund youth development programs, including the youth leadership project, at the Tohatchi chapter of the Navajo Nation;

Section 10. HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the human services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) to engage community volunteers to help low-income families become self-sufficient in Sandoval county;

2. twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for a parent-child education program for families in Chaparral, Anthony, Dona Ana and Sunland Park for children from birth to age three;

Section 11. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. three hundred two thousand dollars ($302,000) for parent training and to enhance provider capacity-building for autism spectrum disorder and related conditions statewide;

2. two hundred ninety thousand dollars ($290,000) for operational funds of a respite home in senate district 23 for families with autistic or other developmentally disabled children not yet receiving other services from the state and who are on the developmental disability waiting list;

3. twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000) to conduct environmental assessments of public schools pursuant to the indoor air quality tools for schools program;

4. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for therapists at the department of health or department-funded facilities and Native American organizations that provide similar services to attend a two-week training program for the treatment of sexually abusive youth;

5. forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to develop a testing protocol, develop and establish a health registry, contract with appropriate testing laboratories and coordinate affected parties in regard to a voluntary testing program for military veterans who may have been exposed to depleted uranium or other isotopes in the Persian Gulf war or in the current Iraq or Afghanistan conflict;

6. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to support and strengthen a fetal alcohol syndrome prevention program at the university of New Mexico;

7. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to provide rape crisis services in central New Mexico;

8. ninety-two thousand dollars ($92,000) to provide services to indigent cancer patients in Chaves, Eddy, Lea and Lincoln counties, including home health services, medications and transportation;

9. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to provide payment for perinatal services, including prenatal, delivery and postnatal services, for uninsured low-income pregnant women with high-risk conditions in Dona Ana county;

10. one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) to fund the five agencies currently operating in a one-stop center established in Dona Ana county to address the needs of the homeless community so that each of the five agencies receives twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000);

11. twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) for emergency medicine dispensing services in Dona Ana county;

12. forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to address unmet needs of the uninsured in Dona Ana county;

13. sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for ambulance services in Mora county;

14. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for women's health services in Santa Fe;

15. sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for ambulance services in Pecos;

16. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for the San Miguel center health professional center in San Miguel county;

Section 12. VETERANS' SERVICES DEPARTMENT PROJECT.--Twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the veterans' services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 to contract for veterans' transportation services in southeastern New Mexico. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 13. CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the children, youth and families department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the heart gallery programs and outreach for children in foster care who are available for adoption;

2. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for domestic violence programs statewide;

3. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to provide services to homeless children in Bernalillo county;

4. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for flexible wrap-around behavioral health services in the third judicial district;

5. forty-seven thousand dollars ($47,000) for parent and child education programs in Dona Ana county;

Section 14. DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the department of military affairs for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to provide active duty military personnel in war zones with protective equipment;

2. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to develop and implement an in-service training program for members of the civil air patrol division;

3. sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) to the crisis response program 722 to provide for a drug demand reduction program through the civil air patrol cadet program for at-risk middle and high school students;

Section 15. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY PROJECT.--Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of public safety for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the board of directors of the New Mexico mounted patrol to develop and implement an in-service law enforcement training program for members of the mounted patrol. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 16. PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for professional development in social studies and civics statewide;

2. fifty-six thousand five hundred twenty dollars ($56,520) for character counts leadership training for public school principals and local superintendents statewide;

3. one hundred sixty-three thousand dollars ($163,000) for an agreement with one or both national laboratories in New Mexico to recruit, train and equip mathematicians and scientists to offer middle, junior and high school mathematics and science distance learning courses and to market those courses to schools around the country;

4. one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) to be evenly divided among the school districts in senate district 7 that have enrollments of one thousand students or fewer for the purchase and installation of information technology, for the purchase or development of distance education courses or for professional development;

5. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to provide autism services statewide, including professional development for educators in the area of autism spectrum disorders, classroom consultations for educators and outreach for students and their families;

6. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to contract for a program to develop and implement an interdisciplinary international education curriculum using international films for middle school students statewide;

7. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to provide autism services in senate district 7, including professional development for educators in the area of autism spectrum disorders, classroom consultations for educators and outreach for students and their families;

8. ninety-five thousand three hundred dollars ($95,300) for band uniforms for the Alamogordo public schools;

9. one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for a summer literacy camp geared toward Hispanic and Native American third grade students at Carlos Rey, Atrisco and La Promesa public schools in the Albuquerque public school district;

10. one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for costs associated with the professional development plan at the Eldorado high school cluster in the Albuquerque public school district;

11. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for costs associated with the professional development plan at La Cueva high school cluster in the Albuquerque public school district;

12. thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for after-school enrichment programs at twenty-first century community learning centers in the south valley of Albuquerque;

13. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for alternatives to out-of-school suspensions at the Belen and Los Lunas school districts;

14. one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) for the promise for success program at the Gadsden independent school district to assess existing youth services and identify gaps in services and funding opportunities;

15. fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the fiesta educativa parent conference and outreach activities in the Gadsden independent school district;

16. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the cada cabeza es un mundo project for the Las Vegas city school district;

17. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for expansion of synchronous course offerings at the Rio Rancho cyber academy in the Rio Rancho public school district;

18. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the after school power academy for learning in the Santa Fe public school district;

Section 17. HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the higher education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for an association of community colleges to implement distance learning;

2. for Mesalands community college, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the intercollegiate rodeo program;

3. for New Mexico junior college:

(a) one hundred one thousand dollars ($101,000) for operational expenses of the western heritage museum;

(b) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for operational expenses of the western heritage museum and the Lea county cowboy hall of fame;

Section 18. UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. one hundred eighty-two thousand dollars ($182,000) for one or more full-time-equivalent professors and other expenses of the Native American studies program;

2. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for one full-time-equivalent position to research and teach the Navajo language in the Native American studies program;

3. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a Latino, Hispano, Mexicano studies program;

4. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for African American student services programs and operations;

5. sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) to expand the sustainability studies program;

6. three hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($357,000) for the department of media arts at the main campus;

7. seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the indigenous library program;

8. seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) for the department of media arts to provide media training and outreach for youth in Albuquerque;

9. two hundred eighty thousand dollars ($280,000) to expand the university's international education initiatives;

10. for the health sciences center:

(a) three hundred twelve thousand dollars ($312,000) for the integrative medicine program at the school of medicine;

(b) thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) to expand the nurse advice line to cover uninsured callers;

(c) fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) to sustain and improve medical research involving outpatient medicine through continuing medical education, clinical research and outreach programs for rural clinicians and to support retention of clinicians in underserved areas;

(d) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to expand the biomedical engineering program;

(e) twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000) to create a cooperative pharmacy program in conjunction with New Mexico state university;

11. for the law school:

(a) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the Corinne Wolfe children's law center to provide training, technical assistance and research concerning abuse and neglect and juvenile justice;

(b) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for operational funding for the Corinne Wolfe children's law center;

(d) fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000) for the Utton transboundary resources center to provide ombudsman services for pending stream adjudications;

12. one hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($157,000) for scholarships for students enrolled in the reserve officer training corps;

13. one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) for programs and support services to enhance student-athlete retention and timely graduation;

14. forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to create a college mentoring program that trains graduate and undergraduate students to mentor high school and other college students;

15. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to enhance pre-college science and mathematics skills and conduct a summer mathematics and science camp for minority students through the college of engineering special programs;

16. thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) for the Gallup branch library;

17. two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the Taos branch to develop and implement a partnership with local schools and community groups for manpower development;

Section 19. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the animal and range sciences judging program;

2. for the college of health and social services:

(a) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to educate psychiatric nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists through the school of nursing's mental health improvement program;

(b) thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to create a cooperative pharmacy program in conjunction with the university of New Mexico;

3. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a virtual film school in the creative media institute for film and digital arts for the college of extended learning;

4. ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for undergraduate students in the art department to travel to out-of-town art shows;

5. eighty-two thousand dollars ($82,000) for the space consortium and outreach program;

6. one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) for the alliance for the advancement of teaching and learning;

7. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the center for economics and personal finance education to expand and strengthen its ongoing economics education program, including teacher outreach and training, curriculum development and distribution and programs for high school students and their families in economics and personal finance;

8. two hundred seven thousand dollars ($207,000) for the college assistance migrant program;

9. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for nursing scholarships at the Alamogordo and Carlsbad branches;

10. to the New Mexico department of agriculture:

(a) one hundred seventy thousand dollars ($170,000) to support the chile industry in New Mexico, including research and development for chile harvesting solutions;

(b) forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) to establish and operate a food processing and testing center on the main campus;

(c) thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for the east Torrance soil and water conservation district to conduct education and training programs;

(d) sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for nonnative phreatophyte removal and riparian restoration in San Juan county, to be managed with the advice and participation of the San Juan soil and water conservation district;

(e) eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) to provide New Mexico grown fresh fruits and vegetables to the Valley high school cluster in the Albuquerque public school district;

(f) seventy-nine thousand dollars ($79,000) for handheld inspection devices for department inspectors;

11. one hundred twenty-seven thousand dollars ($127,000) for program enhancements at the agricultural science center at Clovis;

12. twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for program enhancements related to dairy extension education and research at the agricultural science center at Clovis;

13. to the cooperative extension service:

(a) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to support the activities of the stem 4-H youth development programs in the Las Vegas city school district;

(b) ninety-seven thousand dollars ($97,000) for start-up costs of five proposed tribal cooperative extension centers to provide a base for intercultural youth programs, health-based programs and natural resource and agricultural information services that are currently not available in the targeted New Mexico tribal communities;

(c) fifty-four thousand dollars ($54,000) to provide teaching, research and extension services to small sustainable agriculture farmers;

Section 20. NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico highlands university for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the wrestling program;

2. fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the Upward Bound program;

Section 21. WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY PROJECT.--Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of western New Mexico university for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 to increase the athletics budget. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 22. EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of eastern New Mexico university for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) for the college of education and technology to provide professional development for teachers through distance education;

2. one hundred thirty thousand dollars ($130,000) for intercollegiate athletics;

3. ninety-eight thousand dollars ($98,000) for a supplemental instruction program to provide advanced tutoring to students in high-risk classes;

4. fifty-four thousand dollars ($54,000) for operation of the speech and hearing rehabilitation outreach center;

5. for the Roswell branch:

(a) ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) for a faculty position in aviation science technology;

(b) ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) for a faculty position in emergency medical services management;

Section 23. NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico institute of mining and technology for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance of the appropriations remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. two hundred sixty-four thousand dollars ($264,000) for the bureau of geology and mineral resources aquifer mapping project;

2. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the petroleum recovery research center;

3. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for petroleum recovery research center matching funds for federal grants;

4. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for proposal writing and matching funds for the institute for complex additive systems analysis;

5. fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a pre-engineering program using retirees from the national laboratories;

6. two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the small business innovation research outreach program;

7. two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to create a southeast New Mexico center for energy studies as part of the geophysical research center in Lea county for the review and analysis of energy policy;

Section 24. NORTHERN NEW MEXICO STATE SCHOOL PROJECTS.--The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of northern New Mexico state school for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the purposes specified and, unless otherwise indicated, any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund:

1. two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the health sciences and nursing program;

2. one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to train teachers at Carlos Vigil middle school in the Espanola school district to improve their skills, technical knowledge and teaching techniques in science, mathematics and technology;

Section 25. NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF PROJECT.--Two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico school for the deaf for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for statewide outreach services. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

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