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F I S C A L   I M P A C T   R E P O R T

 

 

 

SPONSOR:

J.P. Taylor

 

DATE TYPED:

1/28/03

 

HB

144

 

SHORT TITLE:

Tobacco Settlement Fund Appropriations

 

SB

 

 

 

ANALYST:

Weber

 

APPROPRIATION

 

Appropriation Contained

Estimated Additional Impact

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY03

FY04

FY03

FY04

 

 

 

$25,262.0

 

 

Non-recurring

Tobacco Settlement Program Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

 

Duplicates SB133

 

Conflicts with HB 7 and SB 2

 

Relates to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act

 

SUMMARY

 

     Synopsis of Bill

 

Senate Bill 133 appropriates $25,262,000 from the Tobacco Settlement Program Fund to several agencies for the purpose of health initiatives.  The following appropriations are made:

 

To the Department of Health

  • $8,000,000 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, including school-based youth and parent programs, media and public awareness campaigns and partnerships;
  • $1,000,000 for diabetes prevention and control;
  • $2,500,000 an early intervention program for at-risk children;

 

  • $470,000 human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome

care and prevention;

  • $250,000 fund inpatient treatment beds as an alternative to incarceration for women

with a substance abuse history convicted of nonviolent felony offenses;

  • $250,000 for the statewide tobacco education prevention program;
  • $42,000 for the purchase of a pulmonary function analyzer, office equipment and furniture for a collaborative program on chronic disease risk reduction in Taos county;
  • $1,000,000 to contract for the provision of diabetes testing equipment in rural clinics for uninsured patients, for computer equipment to track and monitor those patients and for the development of a diabetes collaborative;
  • $250,000 to provide automatic external defibrillators in state and local government buildings and vehicles;
  • $1,200,000 to provide technology for primary care clinics statewide;
  • $200,000 to contract for the implementation of a comprehensive cancer control plan;
  • $300,000 to provide for linking medical information among the state's community access programs, and;
  • $100,000 for public education on prostate cancer.

 

To the University of New Mexico Board of Regents.

  • $3,850,000 to the Health Sciences Center for a variety of research projects;
  • $1,900,000 for a variety of health programs; and
  • $1,750,000 to the Health Sciences Center to contract for research on emphysema and lung cancer detection and treatment.

 

To the Department of Corrections.

  • $250,000 to fund a women's re-entry drug treatment court pilot project; and
  • $50,000 to fund the task force created pursuant to Senate Joint Memorial 48 of the second session of the forty-fifth legislature that is examining issues relating to the increase in the incarceration of females due to drug use and addiction.

 

To the Human Services Department.

  • $1,300,000 a breast and cervical cancer treatment program.

 

To the New Mexico Veterans Service Commission.

  • $600,000 to contract for an assisted living program for veterans with lung disease.

 

 Significant Issues

 

These same Tobacco Settlement Program funds are appropriated in House Bill 7 and Senate Bill 2, the General appropriation Act.

 

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

 

The appropriation of $25,262,000 contained in this bill is a non-recurring expense to the Tobacco Settlement Program Fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of Fiscal Year 2004 shall revert to the Tobacco Settlement Program Fund.

 

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