0001| HOUSE BILL 949 | 0002| 43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997 | 0003| INTRODUCED BY | 0004| LARRY A. LARRANAGA | 0005| | 0006| | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| | 0010| AN ACT | 0011| MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO | 0012| SUPPORT THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAPABILITIES OF LOCAL AND STATE | 0013| RESPONDERS TO ACCIDENTS; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. | 0014| | 0015| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: | 0016| Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Eight hundred thousand dollars | 0017| ($800,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the | 0018| department of public safety for expenditure in fiscal years | 0019| 1997 and 1998 for the purpose of supporting the emergency | 0020| response capabilities of state and local responders to | 0021| accidents, as provided in Subsection E of Section 74-4B-4 NMSA | 0022| 1978. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the | 0023| end of fiscal year 1998 shall revert to the general fund. | 0024| Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public | 0025| peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately. |