HOUSE BILL 704

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

INTRODUCED BY

John A. Heaton

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE MONTHLY GRANTS TO FUND OPERATING EXPENSES FOR NURSING FACILITIES AND INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Three million two hundred thousand dollars ($3,200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the human services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 to provide monthly supplemental reimbursement to medicaid certified nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded to cover the cost of staffing recruitment, retention, wages and benefits and other operating expenses. Supplemental reimbursement amounts per facility shall be based on a rate that is equivalent to five percent of the monthly medicaid payment per facility. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.

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