24A-3-3: 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.