0001|                           SENATE BILL 996
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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|                            L. SKIP VERNON
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALLEVIATING
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0012|     OVERCROWDED CONDITIONS IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM;
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0013|     DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--
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0017|               A.  Five million ninety-five thousand dollars
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0018|     ($5,095,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0019|     children, youth and families department for expenditure in
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0020|     fiscal year 1997 for the purpose of alleviating the
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0021|     overcrowding of adjudicated delinquent offenders and youthful
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0022|     offenders committed to facilities operated by the department. 
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0023|     The appropriated money shall be used to pay for:
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0024|                    (1)  the cost of providing additional security,
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0025|     food and overtime pay at the New Mexico boys' school and the
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0001|     New Mexico youth diagnostic and development center;
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0002|                    (2)  the cost of temporarily placing
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0003|     adjudicated delinquent offenders and youthful offenders in the
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0004|     Cibola county correctional facility; and
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0005|                    (3)  the cost of placing adjudicated delinquent
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0006|     offenders and youthful offenders in a correctional facility in
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0007|     which the corrections department currently incarcerates female
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0008|     adult inmates, located in Grants.  The correctional facility
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0009|     located in Grants may be used for the commitment of delinquent
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0010|     offenders and youthful offenders placed in the custody of the
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0011|     children, youth and families department, pursuant to a joint
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0012|     powers agreement entered into by the corrections department and
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0013|     the children, youth and families department.  
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0014|               B.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining
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0015|     at the end of fiscal year 1997 shall revert to the general
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0016|     fund.
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0017|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0018|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0022|                         FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0023|                           FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0001|                                                        March 5, 1997
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0003|   Mr. President:
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0005|       Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0006|   
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0007|                             SENATE BILL 996
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0009|   has had it under consideration and reports same WITHOUT
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0010|   RECOMMENDATION, and thence referred to the FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0012|                                Respectfully submitted,
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0017|                                Fernando R. Macias, Chairman 
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0020|   Adopted_______________________   Not Adopted_______________________
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0021|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0024|                     Date ________________________

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0002|   The roll call vote was<u> 6 </u> For<u> 2 </u> Against
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0003|           Yes:    6
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0004|           No:     Sanchez, McSorley
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0005|                Excused:     None
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0006|           Absent: None
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