0001|                           SENATE BILL 583
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                         MARY JANE M. GARCIA
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0008|       FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE
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0009|     
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO GENERAL ASSISTANCE; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA
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0012|     1978 TO MAKE CHILDREN WHO PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED SOCIAL SECURITY
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0013|     INCOME BENEFITS AND HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO BE INELIGIBLE UNDER
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0014|     FEDERAL LAW TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THOSE BENEFITS ELIGIBLE TO
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0015|     RECEIVE GENERAL ASSISTANCE.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|          Section 1.  Section 27-2-7 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1973,
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0019|     Chapter 376, Section 10, as amended) is amended to read:
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0020|          "27-2-7. GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM--QUALIFICATIONS AND
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0021|     PAYMENTS.--
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0022|               A.  Subject to the availability of state funds,
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0023|     public assistance shall be provided under a general assistance
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0024|     program to or on behalf of eligible persons who:
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0025|                    (1)  are under eighteen years of age and meet
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0001|     all eligibility conditions for aid to families with dependent
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0002|     children except the relationship to the person with whom they
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0003|     are living; <s>[or]</s>
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0004|                    (2)  are over the age of eighteen and are
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0005|     temporarily disabled, according to regulations of the <s>[board]</s>
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0006|     <u>income support division of the human services department or
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<u></u>0007| <u>    have been determined ineligible to receive benefits pursuant to
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<u></u>0008| <u>    42 USCA 1382(d)(2)</u> and are not receiving <s>[aid to families
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<s></s>0009| <s>    with dependent children]</s> <u>temporary assistance for needy
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<u></u>0010| <u>    families</u>; or
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0011|                    (3)  meet the qualifications under such other
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0012|     regulations for the general assistance program as the <s>[board]</s>
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0013|     <u>income support division</u> shall establish from time to time.
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0014|               B.  General assistance program payments may be made
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0015|     directly to the recipient or to the vendor of goods or services
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0016|     provided to the recipient.  The <s>[board]</s> <u>income support
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<u></u>0017| <u>    division</u> may by regulation limit the grants that are made to
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0018|     general assistance recipients. 
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0019|               C.  Whenever the <s>[board]</s> <u>income support division</u>
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0020|     makes an adjustment in the standard of need for the aid to
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0021|     families with dependent children program pursuant to Section
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0022|     <s>[13-17-3 NMSA 1953]</s> <u>27-2-3 NMSA 1978</u>, it shall make a
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0023|     commensurate adjustment in the standard of need for the general
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0024|     assistance program."
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