The legislature finds that it is in the public interest to provide additional funds to ensure that substance abuse educational programs are provided in New Mexico schools. This act provides a means by which additional substance abuse education funds may be provided from a voluntary check-off designation of tax refunds due the taxpayer on the state income tax form. It is the intent of the legislature that this program of income tax refund check-off is supplemental to any other funding and is in no way intended to take the place of the funding that would otherwise be appropriated for this purpose.
History: Laws 1987, ch. 265, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 1987, ch. 265 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 19, 1987, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.
Compiler's notes. — The term "this act", referred to in this section, means Laws 1987, Chapter 265, which appears as §§ 7-1-6.18, 7-2-29, 7-2-30, 26-2-4, 26-2-4.1 NMSA 1978.