SENATE BILL 408

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

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Kay Papen







AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND RURAL PORTABLE DENTAL

CLINIC SERVICES.



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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2004 to provide money to contract with a nonprofit school-based portable dental program to provide dental screening examinations and dental sealants to uninsured low-income children not eligible for medicaid but who are eligible for the free or reduced-price school lunch program in rural school districts. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund.

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