As used in Articles 1 and 2 of Chapter 13 NMSA 1953, 'department', 'department of public welfare', 'state department of public welfare', 'New Mexico department of public welfare', 'state board of public welfare', 'board of public welfare', 'state board', 'state department', 'health and social services department', 'department of health and social services', 'health and social services board', 'board' and 'human services department' mean the health care authority. History: 1953 Comp., § 13-1-1, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 252, § 16; 2024, ch. 39, § 60.ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — The provisions formerly appearing in Chapter 13, Articles 1 and 2, 1953 Comp., are compiled as 24-13-1 to 24-13-8, 27-1-1 to 27-1-3, 27-1-4, 27-2-15, 27-2-17 to 27-2-26, 27-2-30 to 27-2-36, 27-5-1 to 27-5-12, 27-5-13 to 27-5-18 and 28-4-1 to 28-4-3 NMSA 1978. For definitions of 'department' and 'board' applicable to some of the provisions listed in the previous note, see 27-2-2 NMSA 1978. The powers, duties and property of the department of public welfare were transferred to the department of health and social services by Laws 1968, ch. 37, § 3. Laws 1977, ch. e, see 27-2-2 NMSA 1978. The powers, duties and property of the department of public welfare were transferred to the department of health and social services by Laws 1968, ch. 37, § 3. Laws 1977, ch. 252, § 5, abolished the department of health and social services, and § 4 of said act created the human services department. The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, substituted the human services department with the health care authority in the definition provision, and revised the list of departments and boards that form the health care authority; and after ''health and social services board', 'board'' added 'and human services department' and after 'mean the' deleted 'human services department' and added 'health care authority'.
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