HOUSE BILL 128

45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

INTRODUCED BY

Gail C. Beam





FOR THE COURTS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE



AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO CONTRACT WITH FORENSIC INTERVENTION CONSORTIA FOR SERVICES FOR ADULTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE INCARCERATED.



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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Nine hundred seventy thousand dollars ($970,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the behavioral health services division of the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2002 to contract with forensic intervention consortia for services for adults who would otherwise be incarcerated. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2002 shall revert to the general fund.

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