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HB76 • 2026

ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT OF YOUTH IN CUSTODY

ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT OF YOUTH IN CUSTODY

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Gail Armstrong, Representative Rebecca Dow, Representative Jimmy G. Mason, Representative Tanya Mirabal Moya, Representative Randall T. Pettigrew, Representative Elaine Sena Cortez, Senator Nicole Tobiassen
Last action
Official status
HPREF [1] HHHC/HAFC-HHHC [2] DP-HAFC API.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT OF YOUTH IN CUSTODY

ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT OF YOUTH IN CUSTODY

What This Bill Does

  • ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT OF YOUTH IN CUSTODY

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-27 New Mexico Legislature

    HHHC: Reported by committee with Do Pass recommendation

  2. 2026-01-22 New Mexico Legislature

    Sent to HHHC - Referrals: HHHC/HAFC

  3. New Mexico Legislature

    Sent to HPREF - Referrals: HPREF

  4. New Mexico Legislature

    Action Postponed Indefinitely

Official Summary Text

ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT OF YOUTH IN CUSTODY

Current Bill Text

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HB0076

HOUSE BILL 76

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2026

INTRODUCED BY

Rebecca Dow
and
Nicole Tobiassen
and
Tanya Mirabal Moya

and
Randall T. Pettigrew
and
Gail Armstrong

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY TO
CONTRACT FOR SERVICES TO DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENTS FOR
YOUTH IN STATE CUSTODY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

SECTION 1.
APPROPRIATION.--Ten million dollars
($10,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
health care authority for expenditure in fiscal years 2027
through 2029 to contract for services with providers with
relevant experience to develop alternative placements to
congregate care for youth in state custody that can capably
serve and support older youth and youth with higher levels of

need, with the purpose of expanding the continuum of care
availability, including: acute psychiatric hospital
expansions, residential treatment centers, qualified
residential treatment programs, adolescent detoxification
facilities, step-down facilities for youth in crisis, mobile
response and stabilization teams for youth in crisis, treatment
foster care homes, day treatment services, intensive outpatient
and partial hospitalization services. Any unexpended balance
remaining at the end of fiscal year 2029 shall revert to the
general fund.

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