46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2003
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES BY STATE AGENCIES; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--
A. The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the following state agencies for expenditure in fiscal years 2003 and 2004 for the purposes specified:
(1) to the children, youth and families department:
(a) six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) for a domestic violence pilot project in Bernalillo county;
(b) two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for expansion of child care services; and
(c) one million dollars ($1,000,000) for truancy programs;
(2) to the office of the state engineer, four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) to accelerate water rights adjudications;
(3) to the office of cultural affairs, five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for national Hispanic cultural center operations and completion of the theater;
(4) to the labor department, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for salaries and benefits for the Santa Fe office;
(5) to the board of regents of New Mexico state university, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the range improvement task force to conduct quantitative forage monitoring and assessment of public lands;
(6) to the board of regents of New Mexico institute of mining and technology, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the institute for complex additive systems analysis; and
(7) to the office of cultural affairs, ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to purchase "A New Mexico Story: The Bataan Death March to the Atomic Bomb" video for every public library for every middle school, junior high school and high school library and for every armory in New Mexico.
B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund.
Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.