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

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FROM THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT PROGRAM FUND TO ESTABLISH A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROGRAM IN HUMAN GENOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two million three hundred eighty thousand dollars ($2,380,000) is appropriated from the tobacco settlement program fund to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for expenditure in fiscal years 2002 through 2004 to support the university of New Mexico cancer center, school of medicine and health sciences center's multidisciplinary human genomics research program providing clinical care, investigating prevention and treatment of tobacco-related diseases and assessing relationships between various contaminants and diseases throughout the state. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the tobacco settlement program fund.

Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.