44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND A TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM FOR NEW MEXICO WORKS ACT PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS AND THAT MEETS THE TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the human services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2000 for the purpose of contracting with a national laboratory to train and employ participants of the New Mexico Works Act program. The training and employment program shall monitor and report to the human services department data required by the United States department of health and human services. The human services department shall ensure that expenditures meet all federal and state requirements for maintenance of effort and shall classify the appropriation as maintenance of effort for all federal reporting purposes. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the general fund.