0001|                           SENATE BILL 362
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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|                            LEONARD TSOSIE
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     CREATING THE NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE OVERSIGHT COMMISSION;
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0012|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE OVERSIGHT
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0016|     COMMISSION CREATED--TERMINATION.--The "Native American health
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0017|     care oversight commission" is created.  The commission shall
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0018|     function from the date of its appointment until December 1
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0019|     prior to the first session of the forty-fourth legislature.
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0020|          Section 2.  MEMBERSHIP--APPOINTMENT--VACANCIES.--
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0021|               A.  The Native American health care oversight
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0022|     commission shall be composed of eleven voting members,
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0023|     appointed in the following manner:
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0024|                    (1)  two members of the Navajo Nation, who
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0025|     shall be appointed by the tribal president;
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0001|                    (2)  two members of a pueblo tribe, who shall
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0002|     be appointed by the all-Indian pueblo council;
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0003|                    (3)  two members of an Apache tribe, who shall
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0004|     be appointed by the tribal president;
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0005|                    (4)  the director of the Indian health service
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0006|     or his designee; and
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0007|                    (5)  four nontribal members appointed by the
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0008|     governor.
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0009|               B.  Vacancies on the commission shall be filled by
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0010|     appointment in the same manner as the original appointments.
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0011|               C.  Members shall be paid per diem and mileage in
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0012|     accordance with the provisions of the Per Diem and Mileage
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0013|     Act.
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0014|          Section 3.  DUTIES.--After the Native American health
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0015|     care oversight commission members are appointed, the
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0016|     commission shall hold one organizational meeting to develop a
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0017|     work plan for the ensuing year.  The commission shall review
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0018|     issues related to the delivery of health care to Native
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0019|     American populations in the state, including evaluating the
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0020|     sufficiency of health care services, especially in rural
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0021|     areas, and reviewing costs and the quality and availability of 
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0022|     services, and shall recommend legislation or changes, if any
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0023|     are found to be necessary, to the first session of the forty-
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0024|     fourth legislature.
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0025|          Section 4.  REPORT.--The Native American health care
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0001|     oversight commission shall make a report of its findings and
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0002|     recommendations for the consideration of the first session of
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0003|     the forty-fourth legislature.  The reports and suggested
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0004|     legislation shall be made available to the New Mexico
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0005|     legislative council, the legislative health and human services
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0006|     committee and the interim Indian affairs committee no later
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0007|     than November 1, 1998.
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0008|          Section 5.  STAFF.--The staff for the Native American
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0009|     health care oversight commission shall be provided by the New
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0010|     Mexico office of Indian affairs.
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0011|          Section 6.  APPROPRIATION.--For the purpose of paying
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0012|     contract assistants, necessary equipment and supplies used in
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0013|     carrying out the provisions of this act, for travel expenses
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0014|     for staff and commission members and for reimbursing the per
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0015|     diem and mileage expenses of the Native American health care
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0016|     oversight commission, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
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0017|     is appropriated to the New Mexico office of Indian affairs
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0018|     from the general fund for expenditure in fiscal year 1999. 
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0019|     Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0020|     fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the general fund. 
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0021|          Section 7.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0022|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0023|     immediately.
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