SENATE BILL 317

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

INTRODUCED BY

Linda M. Lopez

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL RECRUITMENT.

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 care professional recruitment organization to expand efforts to recruit physicians, dentists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, nurses and clinical nurse specialists for employment statewide 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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