45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2002

REDUCING CERTAIN FISCAL YEAR 2003 APPROPRIATIONS IF DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION MEASURES ARE ENACTED INTO LAW.

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

Section 1. REDUCTIONS IN APPROPRIATIONS--CONTINGENCY.--

A. The fiscal year 2003 general fund appropriations contained in the General Appropriation Act of 2002 and made to the following agencies are reduced by the following amounts:

(1) the law enforcement program of the department of public safety by six million seven hundred ten thousand eight hundred sixty-two dollars ($6,710,862);

(2) the district courts by one million four hundred seventy-eight thousand sixty-two dollars ($1,478,062);

(3) the magistrate courts by three hundred seventy thousand eight hundred forty-seven dollars ($370,847);

(4) the Bernalillo county metropolitan court by one million four hundred forty-five thousand three hundred forty-three dollars ($1,445,343);

(5) the district attorneys by four million four hundred sixty-two thousand nine hundred seventy-seven dollars ($4,462,977);

(6) the corrections department by twenty-seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($27,500,000);

(7) the children, youth and families department by one hundred forty-two thousand dollars ($142,000); and

(8) the taxation and revenue department by seven hundred thirty-six thousand dollars ($736,000).

B. The secretary of finance and administration shall allocate the appropriation reductions made in Subsection A of this section among agencies, divisions and line items so that the appropriation reduction is proportional to the money saved by no longer complying with or enforcing the drug laws of this state as those laws existed on January 1, 2002.

C. The provisions of this section are contingent upon the enactment into law by the second session of the forty-fifth legislature of any law that decriminalizes the possession or distribution of a controlled substance as that term was defined on January 1, 2002.