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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Wirth
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
1/25/2006
HB 378
SHORT TITLE Legal Services for Low-Income Persons
SB
ANALYST McOlash
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY06
FY07
$2,000.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Relates to SB 316
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 378 appropriates $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Civil Legal Services Fund
for expenditure in FY 2007 and subsequent fiscal years to contract for legal assistance to low-
income persons.
At least $1,000,000 of the appropriation shall be for a single statewide legal services program
with at least five offices that already provides direct legal services to low-income persons (New
Mexico Legal Aid).
The remainder will be allocated by the Civil Legal Services Commission to other not-for-profit
legal services providers.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $2,000,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund
by reference to FY 2007 and “subsequent fiscal years.”
Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2007 shall not revert.