HOUSE BILL 78

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2004

INTRODUCED BY

John A. Heaton

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND HEALTH PROFESSIONAL RECRUITMENT IN NEW MEXICO.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2005 to contract with a qualified nonprofit health professional recruitment agency to expand efforts to recruit allopathic and osteopathic physicians, dentists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, nurses and clinical nurse specialists statewide for employment by or through state agencies. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2005 shall revert to the general fund.

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