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AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR TOBACCO USE CESSATION PROGRAMS AND

FOR DIABETES PREVENTION, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH FROM THE

TOBACCO SETTLEMENT PROGRAM FUND.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATIONS--LIMITATIONS.--

A. If the revenue to the tobacco settlement

program fund exceeds the appropriations made from the fund in

the General Appropriation Act of 2008, the balance of the fund

shall be appropriated as provided in this section.

B. Four million dollars ($4,000,000) of the

balance in the tobacco settlement program fund is appropriated

in the following amounts to the following entities for the

following purposes for expenditure in fiscal year 2009 in

accordance with the limitations in Subsection C of this

section:

(1) two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the

human services department for medicaid program expenditures;

(2) one million two hundred fifty thousand

dollars ($1,250,000) to the department of health for smoking

cessation and prevention programs;

(3) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000)

to the department of health for diabetes prevention and

control services; and

(4) two hundred fifty thousand dollars

($250,000) to the Indian affairs department for tobacco

cessation and prevention programs for Native American

communities throughout the state.

C. If the balance in the fund is insufficient to

meet the appropriations made in Subsection B of this section,

the appropriations shall be reduced as provided in Section

6-4-9 NMSA 1978.

D. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance

remaining at the end of fiscal year 2009 shall revert to the

tobacco settlement program fund.

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