New Mexico Statutes
Article 16A - Developmental Disabilities
Section 28-16A-19 - Information and referral task force creation.

There is created an information and referral task force located in the council to develop a statewide, comprehensive "211" information and referral plan for use as a telephone dialing code for access to health and human services. The plan shall include a tariff structure based on existing agreements, a common taxonomy of terms, coordination between public and private systems and standardized statewide training and exploration of a centralized information repository. The task force shall include representation from the department of health; the human services department; the children, youth and families department; the workforce solutions department; the aging and long-term services department; the internet long-term care link program; the governor's commission on disability; the New Mexico commission for the blind; the commission for deaf and hard-of-hearing persons; a statewide organization that raises money for health and human service purposes; and other interested parties.
History: Laws 2003, ch. 323, § 1; 2021, ch. 61, § 15.
The 2021 amendment, effective June 18, 2021, made technical amendments; after "referral task force located in the", deleted "developmental disabilities planning", after "children, youth and families department; the", deleted "labor" and added "workforce solutions", after the next occurrence of "the", deleted "state agency on", after "aging", added "and long-term services department", and after "governor's", deleted "committee on concerns of the handicapped" and added "commission on disability".

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