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

RELATING TO TOBACCO SETTLEMENT REVENUE; MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT PROGRAM FUND.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--

A. The following amounts are appropriated from the tobacco settlement program fund to the following agencies for the specified purposes for expenditure in fiscal year 2003:

(1) eight million dollars ($8,000,000) to the department of health for comprehensive tobacco use prevention and cessation programs that are community based, culturally appropriate and designed to achieve the "best practices" standards developed by the federal centers for disease control and prevention;

(2) two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) to the department of health to contract for media literacy tobacco use prevention intervention programs for school-age children;

(3) one million dollars ($1,000,000) to the department of health for diabetes prevention;

(4) two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) to the department of health to contract for a program of primary prevention home visits to families of newborns, from the prenatal stage to age three, with priority to be given to at-risk families;

(5) four hundred seventy thousand dollars ($470,000) to the department of health for human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome prevention;

(6) one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) to the department of health to expand operating support of primary care clinics;

(7) five million eight hundred thirty thousand dollars ($5,830,000) to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for the health sciences center to be distributed as follows:

(a) three million eight hundred eighty thousand dollars ($3,880,000) for tobacco-related research; (b) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for education in pediatrics;

(c) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for specialty education in trauma;

(d) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for an area health education center;

(e) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for Los Pasos program;

(f) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the Para Los Ninos program;

(g) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for pediatric oncology;

(h) four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000) for the poison and drug information center; and

(i) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the telemedicine project;

(8) one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,750,000) to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for the health sciences center to contract for research on emphysema and lung cancer detection and treatment; and

(9) six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) to the New Mexico veterans' service commission to contract for an assisted living program for veterans with lung disease.

B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balances remaining at the end of fiscal year 2003 shall revert to the tobacco settlement program fund.

Section 2. SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.--

A. The following amounts are appropriated from the balances of the tobacco settlement program fund to the following agencies for the specified purposes for expenditure in fiscal year 2003:

(1) thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($32,500) to the second judicial district court to contract for a women's re-entry drug treatment court pilot project;

(2) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for the health sciences center to contract for a retest of women who participated in studies on early detection of lung cancer;

(3) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to the department of health to provide defibrillators in state buildings and to contract for associated training costs;

(4) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to the department of health to create a center for nursing excellence to develop strategies to address the nursing shortage;

(5) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) to the department of health to contract for statewide workshops and conferences for medical professionals and community laypersons to provide education about acute stroke treatment, risk factors and programs;

(6) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to the department of health to contract for a needs assessment for a comprehensive cancer control plan;

(7) six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) to the department of health to contract for the linking of information among the state's community access programs;

(8) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to the department of health to contract for a diabetic retinal screening program;

(9) six hundred three thousand six hundred dollars ($603,600) to the department of health to contract for a pilot addictions treatment program to integrate a tobacco use cessation component into three existing DWI, alcohol and other drug treatment programs and to contract for a linkage of alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention and treatment activities among the counties;

(10) one million eight hundred thousand dollars ($1,800,000) to the department of health to contract for an information and medical records system infrastructure for primary care clinics;

(11) one million eight hundred ten thousand three hundred dollars ($1,810,300) to the department of health to contract for seed money for a youth smoking cessation and prevention program in youth organizations statewide;

(12) three million five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000) to the department of health to provide school-based mental health expansion and maintenance of statewide substance abuse prevention; and

(13) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to the department of health to contract for women's inpatient treatment beds as an alternative to prison.

B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balances remaining at the end of fiscal year 2003 shall revert to the tobacco settlement program fund.