0001|                            HOUSE BILL 174
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                             GARY K. KING
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE STATEWIDE INDEPENDENT
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0012|     LIVING SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.
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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.--Five hundred thousand dollars
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0016|     ($500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0017|     vocational rehabilitation division of the state department of
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0018|     public education for expenditure in fiscal year 1999 to expand
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0019|     consumer-controlled community-based independent living
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0020|     services as defined by the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
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0021|     including peer counseling, information and referral, systems
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0022|     advocacy, life-skills training and other related services for
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0023|     people with disabilities in priority areas of the state as
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0024|     determined by the statewide independent living council.  Any
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0025|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0001|     fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the general fund.
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