0001|                            HOUSE BILL 39
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            KIP W. NICELY
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALLEVIATING OVERCROWDED
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0012|     CONDITIONS IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--Fourteen million eight hundred
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0016|     thousand dollars ($14,800,000) is appropriated from the general
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0017|     fund for expenditure in fiscal years 1997 and 1998 to the children,
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0018|     youth and families department for the purpose of alleviating the
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0019|     overcrowding of adjudicated delinquent offenders and youthful
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0020|     offenders committed to facilities operated by the department.  The
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0021|     appropriated money shall be used to pay for the operational costs
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0022|     of placing adjudicated delinquent offenders and youthful offenders
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0023|     in a correctional facility in which the corrections department
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0024|     currently incarcerates female adult inmates, located in Grants. 
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0025|     The corrections department may use the correctional facility for
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0001|     the commitment of delinquent offenders and youthful offenders
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0002|     placed in the custody of the children, youth and families
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0003|     department, pursuant to a joint powers agreement entered into
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0004|     by the corrections department and the children, youth and
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0005|     families department.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0006|     remaining at the end of fiscal year 1998 shall revert to the
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0007|     general fund.
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0008|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0009|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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