SENATE FLOOR SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL 22

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

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO INCREASE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE FOR NEW MEXICANS.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--

          A. Thirty-two million five hundred thousand dollars ($32,500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the human services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2010 as follows:

                (1) ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to provide coverage for individuals enrolled in or eligible for the developmental disabilities medicaid waiver program;

                (2) twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) to provide health care coverage for individuals through age eighteen in medicaid or other health coverage programs designed to reduce the number of children without coverage; and

                (3) two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for direct behavioral health services to individuals through age eighteen with behavioral health care needs in medicaid or other health coverage programs.

          B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2010 shall revert to the general fund.

     Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is April 1, 2009.

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