SENATE BILL 40

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2016

INTRODUCED BY

Howie C. Morales

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO FUND COUNTY AND TRIBAL HEALTH COUNCILS' EFFORTS TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS LOCAL COMMUNITIES' HEALTH NEEDS.

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--Seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2017 to fund county and tribal health councils' identification of local communities' health needs and development of strategies to address those needs pursuant to the Maternal and Child Health Plan Act. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2017 shall revert to the general fund.

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