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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
years 2009 and 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 state children health insurance
program 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 state children health insurance program;
provided no amount of the appropriation in this paragraph
shall be used for administration of the programs.
B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance