HOUSE CAPITAL OUTLAY REQUEST 1226

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

46TH LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION - 2004

REQUESTED BY Joe Thompson

FOR EXTENDED CARE AND HOUSING FACILITIES FOR AIDS PATIENTS IN BERNALILLO COUNTY.

I request that the following capital outlay projects be funded:

• to the local government division of the department of finance and administration

five hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($575,000) to construct an extended care facility for up to six homeless clients in need of assistance in daily living because of illness or dementia related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Bernalillo county; and

one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000) to construct short-term housing for immediate families of children who are hospitalized or undergoing human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome treatment in Bernalillo county.