New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico House Bill HB108 Compare Versions

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28	28	HOUSE BILL 108
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30	30	TH LEGISLATURE
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42	42	FIRST SESSION
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45	45	2025
46	46	INTRODUCED BY
47	47	Kristina Ortez
48	48	AN ACT
49	49	RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH; CREATING THE STATEWIDE PUBLIC HEALTH
50	50	AND CLIMATE PROGRAM; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
51	51	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
52	52	SECTION 1. A new section of the Public Health Act is
53	53	enacted to read:
54	54	"[NEW MATERIAL] STATEWIDE PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLIMATE
55	55	PROGRAM.--
56	56	A. By January 1, 2026, the environmental health
57	57	epidemiology bureau of the epidemiology and response division
58	58	of the department shall establish a statewide public health and
59	59	climate program.
60	60	B. In implementing the statewide public health and
61	61	climate program, the environmental health epidemiology bureau
62	62	shall:
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90	90	(1) help improve interagency collaboration
91	91	focused on health equity, reducing health impacts of extreme
92	92	weather and climate change adaptation in New Mexico;
93	93	(2) assist in the formulation of concrete,
94	94	coordinated and cohesive action plans supporting local
95	95	communities in building health resiliency to future climate
96	96	impacts;
97	97	(3) provide climate and public health
98	98	expertise to assist local community planning and response by
99	99	county and tribal public health councils together with the
100	100	environmental protection division of the department of
101	101	environment and the homeland security and emergency management
102	102	department in:
103	103	(a) making health-informed decisions
104	104	about current and future climate impacts;
105	105	(b) integrating the latest climate and
106	106	public health science into local, regional and statewide
107	107	emergency preparedness programs; and
108	108	(c) accessing federal and other funds
109	109	for climate adaptation; and
110	110	(4) facilitate meaningful agency and community
111	111	engagement within communities most harmed, or determined by
112	112	climate science as most likely to be harmed, by extreme weather
113	113	events."
114	114	SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION.--One million one hundred
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143	143	thousand dollars ($1,100,000) is appropriated from the general
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145	145	2026 to support the statewide public health and climate program
146	146	within the environmental health epidemiology bureau of the
147	147	epidemiology and response division of the department of health.
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149	149	fiscal year 2026 shall revert to the general fund.
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