0001|                            HOUSE BILL 219
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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|                         LEO C. WATCHMAN JR.
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0008|                   FOR THE INDIAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
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0009|     
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND DEATH INVESTIGATIONS AND
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0012|     RELATED SERVICES ON INDIAN LANDS.
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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.--One hundred thousand dollars
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0016|     ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the board
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0017|     of regents of the university of New Mexico for expenditure in
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0018|     fiscal year 1999 for the purpose of providing funding to the
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0019|     office of the medical investigator to conduct death
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0020|     investigations and other forensic services on Indian lands
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0021|     when invited to do so by an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo
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0022|     located in whole or in part in New Mexico.  Any unexpended or
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0023|     unencumbered balanced remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999
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0024|     shall revert to the general fund.
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0025|     .120264.1 
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