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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

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ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/8/06

HB 750

SHORT TITLE Santa Fe County Detox & Rehab Services

SB

ANALYST Lewis

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY06

FY07

100.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to HB 236 (Santa Fe Alcohol & Substance Abuse Programs).

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)

Department of Health (DOH)

Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 750 appropriates $100,000 from the general fund to the Local Government Division

of the Department of Finance and Administration for Santa Fe County to contract for detoxifica-

tion and rehabilitation services.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $100,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert

to the general fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

According to the DFA,

this appropriation is intended to go to contract services with the Santa Fe

Recovery Center (Chemical Dependency Treatment Services).

House Bill 750 – Page

2

Based on a letter sent by the Santa Fe Recovery Center, dated October 19, 2005, DFA adds that:

The mission is to serve as much of the indigent population as possible.

The facility currently has 23 beds which are currently full.

They have a waiting list of 151 who are indigent.

They have an innovative treatment program, with a 5 to 1 client/counselor ratio.

The facility has been utilizing its reserves to pay for operational costs and rehabilitation ser-

vices.

Monies to pay for indigent rehabilitation services will run out by 2005.

The DFA recommends that funding should be recurring for up to three years in order to give the

recovery center time to establish private and public donations.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

DFA states that

administration of this appropriation would go to Santa Fe County. There is no

formal agreement in place; but, according to

the Director of the Santa Fe Recovery Center, there

have been discussions with Steve Shepherd and Agnes Lopez of Santa Fe County.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

This bill relates to/overlaps with HB 236, which appropriates

$350,000 for Santa Fe County to

contract with a nonprofit organization to provide inpatient rehabilitation services for drug, alco-

hol and methamphetamine addiction treatment. The HB 236 appropriation also appears to be in-

tended for the Santa Fe Recovery Center.

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ENACTING THIS BILL

The DFA suggests that the lack of funding might force the Santa Fe Recovery Center to close its

doors. This would eliminate detoxification and rehabilitation services particularly to members of

the indigent population.

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