SENATE BILL 91

44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

INTRODUCED BY

Ramsay Gorham

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE AUDITORY ORAL EDUCATION AND FOLLOW-UP TREATMENT TO COCHLEAR-IMPLANTED DEAF STUDENTS.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2001 to contract with a medical-educational institution that provides intensive specialized auditory oral education to provide auditory oral education and follow-up treatment to deaf students who have been treated surgically with multi-channel cochlear implants. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall revert to the general fund.

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