SENATE BILL 364

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

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 eight hundred thirty-one thousand two hundred dollars ($3,831,200) is appropriated from the general fund to the Indian affairs department for expenditure in fiscal year 2009 and subsequent fiscal years for New Mexico's portion of phase two 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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