SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL 192

56th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

MAKING GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES; PROVIDING AN EXCEPTION TO LEGISLATIVE CONFIDENTIALITY.

 

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

     SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE FISCAL YEAR 2023 APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the legislative council service for expenditure in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 to contract for consulting and technical assistance to analyze key health cost drivers for the legislative health and human services committee. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2024 shall revert to the general fund.

     SECTION 2. JUDICIAL FISCAL YEAR 2023 APPROPRIATIONS.--The appropriations in this section are from the general fund for the following agencies for expenditure in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for the purposes specified, and, unless otherwise indicated, the unexpended or unencumbered balance of an appropriation in this section at the end of fiscal year 2024 shall revert to the general fund:

          A. to the court of appeals, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) is appropriated to improve and enhance the timely processing of judicial appeals and to increase efficiency;

          B. to the supreme court, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is appropriated for security cameras and equipment for the supreme court building;

          C. to the administrative office of the courts, the following amounts are appropriated for the following purposes:

                (1) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for equipment and materials for the support of the New Mexico volunteer attorney program;

                (2) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the Children's Code reform task force to assess and recommend changes;

                (3) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the judicial information division to improve online access to court records statewide; and

                (4) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for judicial education;

          D. to the first judicial district court, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is appropriated for courtroom technology;

          E. to the third judicial district court, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated for technology to accommodate remote hearings and trials;

          F. to the fifth judicial district court in Chaves county, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated for the court-appointed special advocate program to purchase equipment and contract for innovative trauma services;

          G. to the district attorney of the eleventh judicial district division two in McKinley county, the following amounts are appropriated for the following purposes:                (1) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for contract prosecutors; and

                (2) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for information technology system upgrades; and

          H. to the public defender department, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is appropriated for transcription services.

     SECTION 3. GENERAL CONTROL FISCAL YEAR 2023 APPROPRIATIONS.--The appropriations in this section are from the general fund for the following agencies for expenditure in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for the purposes specified, and, unless otherwise indicated, the unexpended or unencumbered balance of an appropriation in this section at the end of fiscal year 2024 shall revert to the general fund:

          A. to the department of finance and administration, the following amounts are appropriated for the following purposes:

                (1) five hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($575,000) for civil legal services;

                (2) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the acequia and community ditch education program;

                (3) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to contract for comprehensive services, housing options and resources for the homeless statewide;

                (4) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) to provide wraparound job-life training programs, weekly seminars and life skills for incarcerated people and their families and juvenile offenders statewide;

                (5) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the land grant council to provide youth programming and financial, natural resources and management support to land grants;

                (6) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the north-central New Mexico economic development district council of governments to provide grant research, grant writing and technical assistance for communities within the district;

                (7) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the southeastern New Mexico economic development district council of governments to plan and provide technical assistance, capacity building, fiscal agent services, grant writing and administrative services to local governments in southeast New Mexico;

                (8) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the middle Rio Grande conservancy district for education materials to support challenges of drought and decreased water supplies;

                (9) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the mid-region council of governments to contract for job training skills and job placement support to south valley and west mesa communities; and

                (10) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the mid-region council of governments to contract for economic development management in the south valley of Bernalillo county;

          B. to the local government division of the department of finance and administration, the following amounts are appropriated for the following purposes:

                (1) in Bernalillo county:

                     (a) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for the Albuquerque department of arts and culture to research the economic impact of arts and creativity in Albuquerque and Bernalillo county and to support a broad arts engagement public campaign;

                      (b) six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) to contract for services for location and funding options for a multipurpose event center in Albuquerque;

                     (c) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to contract for culturally relevant and appropriate services for urban indigenous populations in Albuquerque;

                     (d) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to provide for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics education outreach for young children and educators at a science center and children's museum in Albuquerque;

                     (e) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to contract for services to review confidentiality and safety procedures relating to child fatality disclosure policies in Albuquerque;

                     (f) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to contract for services related to child maltreatment and children's exposure to violence through the trauma-informed model of handle with care in Albuquerque;

                     (g) one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) for an Albuquerque violence intervention program;

                     (h) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to contract for culturally sensitive training supporting the pan-Asian community in Albuquerque;                            (i) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to contract for case management and other services for Asian Americans in central New Mexico;                                     (j) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to purchase wrestling equipment for the northeast area of Albuquerque;

                     (k) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to contract for flamenco educational services and to conduct a flamenco festival within Bernalillo county;

                     (l) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to contract for professional development toward licensure of bilingual behavioral health care professionals and culturally and linguistically specific trauma-informed mental health, case management and suicide prevention services for immigrant and refugee families in Bernalillo county;

                     (m) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to contract for job-life training and weekly life-skills seminars for incarcerated persons and their families in Bernalillo county;

                     (n) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to contract for services to low-income senior citizens to promote aging in place in Bernalillo county;

                     (o) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to contract for out-of-school visual and performing arts; media arts; science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics programs; interactive murals for youth-focused arts; and to provide student internships in Bernalillo county;

                     (p) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to provide training, supplies and uniforms to the Bernalillo county fire department volunteer chaplain unit; and

                     (q) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for racing exhibits in Bernalillo county;

                (2) in Chaves county:

                     (a) two hundred sixty thousand dollars ($260,000) to purchase and equip police vehicles for the Roswell police department;

                     (b) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to purchase and equip police vehicles for the Chaves county sheriff's office; and

                     (c) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to contract for one-to-one youth mentoring services in Chaves county;

                (3) in Cibola county:

                     (a) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to purchase and equip law enforcement vehicles in Grants;

                     (b) seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) to purchase a loader and heavy equipment for Grants;

                     (c) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to purchase and equip public works vehicles for Milan; and

                     (d) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to purchase uniforms, personal protective equipment and safety equipment for the Cibola county K-9 unit;

                (4) one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) to purchase and equip police vehicles for the Clovis police department in Curry county;

                (5) in De Baca county:

                     (a) eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) to purchase and equip police vehicles for the Fort Sumner police department; and

                     (b) eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) to purchase and equip law enforcement vehicles for the De Baca county sheriff's department;

                (6) in Dona Ana county:

                     (a) one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) to furnish and equip a four-chair dental suite and six offices in the behavioral health suite serving persons with serious mental health issues or experiencing homelessness and other socially or economically disadvantaged residents in Las Cruces;