A. The "housing modification for persons with a disability permanent fund" is created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money appropriated to the fund and any gifts, donations or bequests made to the fund. Money in the fund shall be invested by the state investment officer as land grant permanent funds are invested pursuant to Chapter 6, Article 8 NMSA 1978, and earnings from investment of the fund shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund shall not revert at the end of any fiscal year and shall not be expended for any purpose, except that an annual distribution shall be made to the fund for persons with a disability in accordance with Subsection B of this section.

B. On July 1 of fiscal year 2002 and on July 1 of each fiscal year thereafter, an annual distribution shall be made from the housing modification for persons with a disability permanent fund to the disability fund in an amount equal to three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) until that amount is less than an amount equal to five percent of the average of the year-end market values of the housing modification for persons with a disability permanent fund for the immediately preceding five calendar years. Thereafter, the amount of the annual distribution shall be five percent of the average of the year-end market values of the housing modification for persons with a disability permanent fund for the immediately preceding five calendar years.

History: Laws 2001, ch. 226, § 1; 2007, ch. 46, § 31.

The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, made non-substantive language changes.