A. There is created in the executive branch the "human services department". The department shall be a cabinet department and shall consist of, but not be limited to, six divisions as follows:
(1) the income support division;
(2) the administrative services division;
(3) the medical assistance division;
(4) the child support enforcement division;
(5) the behavioral health services division; and
(6) the information technology division.
B. All references in the law to the behavioral health services division of the department of health or to the mental health division of the department of health in Sections 29-11-1 through 29-11-7 NMSA 1978 or to the department of health in Sections 43-2-1.1 through 43-2-23 NMSA 1978 shall be construed as referring to the human services department.
History: 1978 Comp., § 9-8-4, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 252, § 4; 1981, ch. 88, § 2; 2005, ch. 110, § 5; 2007, ch. 325, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For executive cabinet, see 9-1-3 NMSA 1978.
For public assistance generally, see Chapter 27 NMSA 1978.
For human rights generally, see Chapter 28 NMSA 1978.
For veterans' services, see Chapter 9. Article 22 NMSA 1978.
For delinquent, abused and neglected children, see 32A-2-1 to 32A-2-33 and 32A-4-1 to 32A-4-34 NMSA 1978.
For adoption generally, see 32A-5-1 to 32A-5-45 NMSA 1978.
For the Mandatory Medical Support Act, see 40-4C-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, added Paragraphs (3) through (5) of Subsection A and added Subsection B.
The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, created the information technology division within the human services department.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 79 Am. Jur. 2d Welfare Laws §§ 45 to 82.
Construction and application of state social security or unemployment compensation as affected by terms of Federal Social Security Act or judicial or administrative rulings thereunder, 139 A.L.R. 892.
43 C.J.S. Infants §§ 31, 32.