HOUSE BILL 240

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Antonio Lujan

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INVOLVING OUTPATIENT MEDICINE.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Four hundred eighty-nine thousand dollars ($489,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 for the university of New Mexico health sciences center to sustain and improve the research involving an outpatient medicine program, a practice-based research network that provides continuing medical education, clinical research and outreach programs for rural clinicians and supports retention of clinicians in underserved areas. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.