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This bill establishes a new Homelessness Reduction Division within the Health Care Authority to coordinate and implement state efforts to combat homelessness. This division will be responsible for developing a statewide strategic plan to decrease homelessness, improve services for those experiencing homelessness, and strengthen housing stability. It will also create a "homeless data integration system" to track data related to homelessness and its impact on state programs, ensuring that health and personal identifying information within this system remains private. Additionally, the bill creates an Interagency Homelessness Reduction Task Force, composed of representatives from various state agencies, to advise the division on initiatives and recommend policy changes, and a Homelessness Reduction Advisory Council, made up of individuals with lived experience, advocates, and service providers, to offer recommendations on preventing and reducing homelessness. The bill also appropriates $1 million to fund these new initiatives.

https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legtype=B&legno=127&year=26