46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2003

RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH; MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO FUND SUICIDE PREVENTION ACTIVITIES, PARENTING, LIFE SKILLS AND NUTRITION EDUCATION FOR AT-RISK FAMILIES AND STATEWIDE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--

A. Two million three hundred thousand dollars ($2,300,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 in the following amounts and for the following purposes:

(1) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to contract with a suicide intervention project to develop statewide prevention strategies and training for adults and students who have contact with students at high risk of suicide; and

(2) two million dollars ($2,000,000) to fund new services and build infrastructure, with priority given to alcohol and substance abuse intensive post-treatment community-based case management, jail diversion and crisis intervention, and to address behavioral health needs and gaps, as recommended in the comprehensive assessment of these needs issued in the department's 2002 analysis of the gap between current need and services available.

B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 2. APPROPRIATION.--Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 for the purpose of expanding a family strengthening partnership parenting education program to improve parenting and life skills, to provide nutrition education for low-income at-risk families and to expand the infrastructure and geographic locations of the program. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund.