0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; PROVIDING A MORATORIUM ON
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0003| REDUCTIONS IN PAYMENTS AND SERVICES. 
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0005| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0006|      Section 1.  MORATORIUM ON REDUCTIONS IN PAYMENTS OR SERVICES IN
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0007| CERTAIN PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.--In any program of assistance or services
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0008| administered by the human services department in which the budgeted expenditures for the
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0009| program include amounts from general fund appropriations, the department shall not, during the
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0010| period from the effective date of this section until October 1, 1997, reduce the level of assistance
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0011| or services from the level existing on January 1, 1996, by: 
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0012|           A.  changing eligibility requirements to raise the threshold of eligibility for an
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0013| individual or family to receive assistance or services; or
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0014|           B.  decreasing the amount of assistance or services that an individual or
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0015|                                                               family may receive by changing standards of need, method of payment or reimbursement
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0016|                                                               or similar changes.                                                        
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