A. The department is authorized to establish a utility assistance supplement program for purposes of the Low Income Utility Assistance Act.
B. Beginning on July 1, 1980 and each year thereafter the department shall pay utility assistance supplement payments, subject to the availability of funds from the low income utility assistance fund created under the provisions of Section 27-6-16 NMSA 1978.
History: Laws 1979, ch. 290, § 5; 1980, ch. 118, § 4.