0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1258
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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|                            DANICE PICRAUX
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO PUBLIC WELFARE; PROVIDING FOR AN INMATE WORK FOOD
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0012|     DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM AND PILOT PROJECT; MAKING AN
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0013|     APPROPRIATION.
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0014|     
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  INMATE WORK FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM--PILOT
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0017|     PROJECT.--     
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0018|               A.  The corrections department shall establish and
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0019|     administer an inmate work food distribution program.  The
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0020|     program shall provide for and administer a food harvesting and
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0021|     distribution program of agricultural crops that might otherwise
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0022|     go to waste.  The agricultural crops shall be distributed to
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0023|     sick or indigent persons.  The corrections department shall
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0024|     cooperate with other departments, public bodies and private
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0025|     landowners as it deems appropriate to develop and implement
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0001|     policies and procedures and shall provide staffing and
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0002|     administrative support for the program, including its
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0003|     harvesting  and distribution systems.
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0004|               B.  As part of the inmate work food distribution
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0005|     program, the corrections department shall conduct a harvesting
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0006|     and distribution pilot project commencing July 1, 1997 using
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0007|     minimum-security inmates of state and local correctional
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0008|     facilities.  The corrections department shall cooperate with
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0009|     the human services department to establish and implement the
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0010|     food distribution system, policies, procedures or other
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0011|     features of the pilot project. 
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0012|               C.  The pilot project shall be implemented on state
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0013|     or private lands, with the private landowner's consent, that
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0014|     are  in proximity to the correctional facilities housing the
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0015|     inmates.  Agricultural products harvested through the pilot
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0016|     project shall be distributed only to sick or indigent persons.
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0017|               D.  The corrections department shall report and make
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0018|     recommendations to the appropriate interim legislative
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0019|     committee  not later than November 1, 1998 on whether to
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0020|     continue, discontinue or modify the pilot project.
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0021|               E.  As used in this section:  "agricultural crop"
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0022|     means any owner-donated food or nonfood crop or product grown
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0023|     on land, including firewood.
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0024|          Section 2.  APPROPRIATION.--One hundred forty thousand
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0025|     dollars ($140,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0001|     corrections department for expenditure in fiscal years 1998 and
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0002|     1999 for the purpose of establishing and operating a food
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0003|     harvesting and distribution pilot project.  Any unexpended or
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0004|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1998
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0005|     shall not revert.  Any unexpended and unencumbered balance
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0006|     remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the
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0007|     general fund.
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0008|                                                         State of New Mexico
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0009|                      House of Representatives
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0010|   
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0011|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0012|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0015|                                                   March 6, 1997
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0018|   Mr. Speaker:
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0019|   
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0020|        Your GOVERNMENT AND URBAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to
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0021|   whom has been referred
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0022|   
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0023|                       HOUSE BILL 1258
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0024|                               
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0025|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0001|   recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0002|   APPROPRIATION AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0004|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0010| <u>                                </u>                             Lynda M. Lovejoy, Chairwoman
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0015|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0019|   The roll call vote was<u> 7 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0020|   Yes:      7
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0021|             Excused:  Hobbs
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0022|             Absent:   None
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