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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Miera
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2/15/07
HB 1042
SHORT TITLE UNM Drug Counselor Internship Initiatives
SB
ANALYST Guambaña
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$54.975
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Higher Education Department (HED)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 1042 appropriates $54,975 from the General Fund to the Board of Regents of the
University of New Mexico (UNM) for the Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors
(LADAC) internship initiative.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $54,975 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund.
Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 08 shall revert to the
General Fund.
HED maintains that
t
his proposal was submitted to the Department by UNM in the amount of
$50,000 but was not included in their funding recommendation for FY 08.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
HED furnished information that, per the UNM 2007 State Legislative Priorities document,
$53,275 of this allocation would be used for personnel and the remaining $1,700 would be