HOUSE BILL 508

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

INTRODUCED BY

Janice E. Arnold-Jones

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A STUDY ON THE USE OF LACTATION CONSULTANTS IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for expenditure in fiscal year 2005 for the neonatal intensive care unit of the university of New Mexico to conduct a study on the use of lactation consultants, to provide breast pumps to mothers, to reduce infant mortality and to reduce medicaid costs for mothers of premature babies. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2005 shall revert to the general fund.