SENATE BILL 1139

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

INTRODUCED BY

Lynda M. Lovejoy

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE INTERNET TO THE HOGANS INITIATIVE.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Three million dollars ($3,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the Indian affairs department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 and subsequent fiscal years for New Mexico's portion of the internet to the hogans initiative, a statewide intergovernmental collaborative designed to ensure that no New Mexico hogan is left behind in the evolving digital world. The funds shall be used for operations infrastructure for telecommunications and telehealth for the state's fifty-two Navajo chapter houses, schools, libraries and rural hospitals. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.

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