HOUSE BILL 253

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2018

INTRODUCED BY

         Joanne J. Ferrary and Elizabeth "Liz" Thomson and Cisco McSorley

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FROM THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT PROGRAM FUND TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO FUND EVIDENCE-BASED TOBACCO USE CESSATION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMMING STATEWIDE.

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--One million dollars ($1,000,000) is appropriated from the tobacco settlement program fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2019 to fund evidence-based tobacco use prevention and cessation programming statewide. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2019 shall revert to the general fund.

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