HOUSE BILL 330

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2006

INTRODUCED BY

Luciano "Lucky" Varela

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN ANTI-OBESITY, NUTRITION EDUCATION, SELF-ESTEEM AND FITNESS DANCE PROGRAM FOR LOW-INCOME, AT-RISK CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 to contract with a not-for-profit organization in Santa Fe county providing dance instruction and performance to implement an anti-obesity, nutrition education, self-esteem and fitness dance program for low-income, at-risk children in public elementary and middle schools statewide. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.