0001|      HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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0002|                           HOUSE BILL 1343
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0003|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0011|                                AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO THE PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE;
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0013|     MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT THE
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0014|     PROVISIONS OF THE FAMILY ASSISTANCE AND INDIVIDUAL
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0015|     RESPONSIBILITY ACT; PROVIDING FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT
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0016|     REQUIRED TO OBTAIN THE FEDERAL TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY
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0017|     FAMILIES BLOCK GRANT.
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0019|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0020|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATIONS.--
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0021|               A.  Contingent upon the enactment into law of the
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0022|     Family Assistance and Individual Responsibility Act by the
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0023|     first session of the forty-third legislature:
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0024|                    (1)  one hundred twenty-eight million dollars
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0025|     ($128,000,000) is appropriated from federal funds pursuant to
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0001|     Section 901 of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work
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0002|     Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Public Law 104-193, to
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0003|     the human services department for expenditure in fiscal year
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0004|     1998 for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the
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0005|     Family Assistance and Individual Responsibility Act.  Any
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0006|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0007|     fiscal year 1998 shall not revert; and
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0008|                    (2)  thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000)
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0009|     is appropriated from the general fund to the human services
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0010|     department for expenditure in fiscal year 1998 for the purpose
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0011|     of carrying out the provisions of the Family Assistance and
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0012|     Individual Responsibility Act.  Any unexpended or unencumbered
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0013|     balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1998 shall revert
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0014|     to the general fund.
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0015|               B.  The appropriation in Paragraph (2) of Subsection
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0016|     A of this section, together with other appropriations to the
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0017|     human services department, the children, youth and families
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0018|     department and the labor department in the General
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0019|     Appropriation Act of 1997, shall be used to meet the one
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0020|     hundred percent of the maintenance of effort required to obtain
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0021|     both the federal temporary assistance for needy families block
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0022|     grant and its contingency pursuant to the federal Personal
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0023|     Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996,
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0024|     Public Law 104-193.
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0025|               C.  The appropriations authorized in this section
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0001|     shall only take effect if the Family Assistance and Individual
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0002|     Responsibility Act is enacted into law by the first session of
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0003|     the forty-third legislature. 
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