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HOUSE BILL 108
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
OF
NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Kristina Ortez
AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH; CREATING THE STATEWIDE PUBLIC HEALTH
AND CLIMATE PROGRAM; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. A new section of the Public Health Act is
enacted to read:
"[NEW MATERIAL] STATEWIDE PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLIMATE
PROGRAM.--
A. By January 1, 2026, the environmental health
epidemiology bureau of the epidemiology and response division
of the department shall establish a statewide public health and
climate program.
B. In implementing the statewide public health and
climate program, the environmental health epidemiology bureau
shall:
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(1) help improve interagency collaboration
focused on health equity, reducing health impacts of extreme
weather and climate change adaptation in New Mexico;
(2) assist in the formulation of concrete,
coordinated and cohesive action plans supporting local
communities in building health resiliency to future climate
impacts;
(3) provide climate and public health
expertise to assist local community planning and response by
county and tribal public health councils together with the
environmental protection division of the department of
environment and the homeland security and emergency management
department in:
(a) making health-informed decisions
about current and future climate impacts;
(b) integrating the latest climate and
public health science into local, regional and statewide
emergency preparedness programs; and
(c) accessing federal and other funds
for climate adaptation; and
(4) facilitate meaningful agency and community
engagement within communities most harmed, or determined by
climate science as most likely to be harmed, by extreme weather
events."
SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION.--One million one hundred
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thousand dollars ($1,100,000) is appropriated from the general
fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year
2026 to support the statewide public health and climate program
within the environmental health epidemiology bureau of the
epidemiology and response division of the department of health.
Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
fiscal year 2026 shall revert to the general fund.
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