0001| HOUSE BILL 321
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0002| 43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003| INTRODUCED BY
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0004| RICK MIERA
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0010| AN ACT
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0011| MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE NEW MEXICO COMMISSION FOR THE
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0012| BLIND TO HIRE ADDITIONAL STAFF AND CONTRACT FOR THE OPERATION
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0013| OF INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND
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0014| HEARING-IMPAIRED PERSONS.
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0016| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017| Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--
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0018| A. One hundred seventy-eight thousand dollars
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0019| ($178,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the New
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0020| Mexico commission for the blind for expenditure in fiscal year
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0021| 1999 in the following amounts and for the following purposes:
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0022| (1) forty-eight thousand dollars ($48,000) to
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0023| pay salaries and benefits for two additional full-time
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0024| employees; and
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0025| (2) one hundred thirty thousand dollars
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0001| ($130,000) to contract for the operation of four independent
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0002| living centers for visually impaired and hearing-impaired
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0003| persons. The centers shall be located in Santa Fe,
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0004| Albuquerque, Farmington and Las Cruces.
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0005| B. Any unexpended and unencumbered balance
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0006| remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the
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0007| general fund.
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