HOUSE BILL 228

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

William "Ed" Boykin

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY STRENGTHENING INITIATIVE AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two million dollars ($2,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 to provide an estimated sixty-five thousand hours of family strengthening and parenting classes to more than eight hundred parents and one thousand two hundred children in high-risk families with limited economic resources. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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