Incarcerated persons; behavioral health services; county

funding program. To carry out the provisions of Subsection E of Section 9-8-7.1 NMSA 1978 and to provide behavioral health services to persons who are incarcerated in a county correctional facility: A. the secretary shall adopt and promulgate rules: (1) pursuant to which a county may apply for and be awarded funding through the authority; and (2) to establish priorities and guidelines for the award of funding to counties; and B. the authority shall distribute funds, as funding permits, to the county health care assistance funds of those counties: (1) that apply for behavioral health services funding in accordance with authority rules; and (2) whose proposed utilization of funding pursuant to this section meets the priorities and guidelines for the awarding of behavioral health services funding established in authority rules. History: Laws 2019, ch. 222, § 2; 2023, ch. 205, § 10; § 9-8-7.3, recompiled and amended as § 24A-3-3 by Laws 2024, ch. 39, § 45.