§ 27-10-3 — County-supported medicaid fund created; use;

appropriation by the legislature. A. The "county-supported medicaid fund" is created as a nonreverting fund in the state treasury. The fund shall be invested by the state treasurer as other state funds are invested. Income earned from investment of the fund shall be credited to the county-supported medicaid fund. B. Money in the county-supported medicaid fund is subject to appropriation by the legislature to support the state medicaid program and to institute or support primary care health care services pursuant to Subsections D and E of Section 24-1A-3.1 NMSA 1978. Of the amount appropriated each year, nine percent shall be appropriated to the health care authority to institute or support primary care health care services pursuant to Subsections D and E of Section 24-1A-3.1 NMSA 1978. C. Up to three percent of the county-supported medicaid fund each year may be expended for administrative costs related to medicaid or developing new primary care health care centers or facilities. D. In the event federal funds for medicaid are not received by New Mexico for any eighteen-month period, the unencumbered balance remaining in the county-supported medicaid fund and the safety net care pool fund at the end of the fiscal year following the end of any eighteen-month period shall be paid within a reasonable time to each county for deposit in the county health care assistance fund in proportion to the payments made by each county through tax revenues or transfers in the previous fiscal year as certified by the local government division of the department of finance and administration. The department will provide for budgeting and accounting of payments to the fund.

Legislative History

Laws 1991, ch. 212, § 3; 1992, ch. 31, § 2; 1993, ch. 321, § 20; 1996, ch. 29,