SENATE BILL 119

55th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2022

INTRODUCED BY

Gerald Ortiz y Pino and Martin Hickey and George K. Munoz and Joseph Cervantes

AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE APPROPRIATION CONTINGENCY FUND TO ESTABLISH A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER.

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--

          A. The following amounts are appropriated from the appropriation contingency fund for expenditure in fiscal year 2023 and subsequent fiscal years to establish a school of public health at the university of New Mexico health sciences center in collaboration with the university of New Mexico and New Mexico state university:

                (1) fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico to plan, design, construct, improve, renovate, furnish and equip facilities for a school of public health at the university of New Mexico health sciences center;

                (2) twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for salaries, operational expenses and program development for a school of public health at the university of New Mexico health sciences center; and

                (3) five million dollars ($5,000,000) to the board of regents of New Mexico state university for salaries, operational expenses and program development for a school of public health at the university of New Mexico health sciences center.

          B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the appropriation contingency fund.

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