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SPONSOR: |
Lopez |
DATE TYPED: |
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HB |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Sexual Assault Treatment and Prevention |
SB |
679 |
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ANALYST: |
Chabot |
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APPROPRIATION
Appropriation
Contained |
Estimated
Additional Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
FY03 |
FY04 |
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$1,500.0 |
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Recurring |
General
Fund |
(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Relates to SB 372 and HJM-28
LFC Files
Responses
Received From
Administrative
Office of the Courts
Department
of Health (DOH)
Children,
Youth and Families Department (CYFD)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
Senate Bill 679
appropriates $1,500.0 to CYFD for the purpose of providing statewide sexual
assault treatment program. The bill
contains an emergency clause.
Significant
Issues
DOH states the Behavioral Health Services
Division is statutorily obligated to provide prevention and intervention
services by the Sex Crime Prosecution and Treatment Act (Section 29-11-1 to
29-11-7 NMSA 1978). In addition, the
Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant requires DOH to provide
sexual assault prevention programs. CYFD
does not currently fund these services and only addresses children, 17 years of
age and under, in family sexual abuse cases.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of
$1,500.0 contained in this bill is for expenditure in fiscal years 2003 and
2004 and is a recurring expense to the general fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining
at the end of fiscal year 2004 shall revert to the general fund.
TECHNICAL ISSUES
The bill title, line 12, specifies “Sexual
Assault Treatment and Prevention”; however, line 20 refers only to “sexual
assault treatment programs.”
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
DOH states it is not
clear whether the appropriation is to be for treatment of children who have
been sexually assaulted, their families or treatment of perpetuators or
offenders.
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
GAC/yr