HOUSE BILL 90

49th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2009

INTRODUCED BY

Jim R. Trujillo

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAVERNOUS ANGIOMA CLINICAL CARE, RESEARCH AND TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Three hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($375,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for expenditure in fiscal year 2010 for the health sciences center to establish a center for excellence and a site for a national angioma organization to study cavernous angioma by focusing on clinical care through early diagnosis and access to genetic testing and counseling; on research by seeking ways to decrease hemorrhage or lesion growth; and on teaching by helping primary care providers, emergency room physicians and radiologists throughout the state to recognize cavernous angioma or familial cerebral cavernous malformations. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2010 shall revert to the general fund.

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