HOUSE BILL 115

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2025

INTRODUCED BY

Joanne J. Ferrary

 

 

 

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SERVICES.

 

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--Eight hundred fifty-nine thousand dollars ($859,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the health care authority for expenditure in fiscal year 2026 to provide funding to an organization located in Dona Ana county that uses a soteria model to provide long-term residential treatment services for people diagnosed with serious mental illness and psychosis. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2026 shall revert to the general fund.

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