1. A. The division shall establish a local DWI grant program to make grants to municipalities or counties for:

   1. (1) new, innovative or model programs, services or activities to prevent or reduce the incidence of DWI, alcoholism, alcohol abuse, drug addiction or drug abuse; and
   2. (2) programs, services or activities to prevent or reduce the incidence of domestic abuse related to DWI, alcoholism, alcohol abuse, drug addiction or drug abuse.
2. B. Grants shall be awarded by the council pursuant to the advice and recommendations of the division.
3. C. The "local DWI grant fund" is created in the state treasury and shall be administered by the division. Three million dollars ($3,000,000) of liquor excise tax revenues distributed to the fund and all other money in the fund, other than money appropriated for distribution pursuant to Subsections D and E of this section and money appropriated for DWI program distributions, are appropriated to the division to make grants to municipalities and counties upon council approval in accordance with the program established under the Local DWI Grant Program Act and to evaluate DWI grantees and the local DWI grant program. Money in the fund may be used for drug courts. An amount equal to the liquor excise tax revenues distributed annually to the fund, less six million one hundred thousand dollars ($6,100,000), is appropriated to the division to make DWI program distributions to counties upon council approval of programs in accordance with the provisions of the Local DWI Grant Program Act. No more than one million one hundred thousand dollars ($1,100,000) of liquor excise tax revenues distributed to the fund in any fiscal year shall be expended for administration of the grant program. Balances in the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.

4. D. Two million eight hundred thousand dollars ($2,800,000) of the liquor excise tax revenues distributed to the local DWI grant fund is appropriated to the division for distribution to the following counties in the following amounts for funding of alcohol detoxification and treatment facilities:

   1. (1) one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) to class A counties with a population of over three hundred thousand persons according to the 1990 federal decennial census;
   2. (2) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) each to counties reclassified in 2002 as class A counties with a population of more than ninety thousand but less than one hundred thousand persons according to the 1990 federal decennial census;
   3. (3) two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to class B counties with a population of more than thirty thousand but less than forty thousand persons according to the 1990 federal decennial census;
   4. (4) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to class B counties with a population of more than sixty-two thousand but less than sixty-five thousand persons according to the 1990 federal decennial census; and
   5. (5) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) to class B counties with a population of more than thirteen thousand but less than fifteen thousand persons according to the 1990 federal decennial census.
5. E. Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) of the liquor excise tax revenues distributed to the local DWI grant fund is appropriated to the division for the interlock device fund.

6. F. In awarding DWI grants to local communities, the council:

   1. (1) may fund new or existing innovative or model programs, services or activities designed to prevent or reduce the incidence of DWI, alcoholism or alcohol abuse;
   2. (2) may fund existing community-based programs, services or facilities for prevention, screening and treatment of alcoholism and alcohol abuse;
   3. (3) may fund new or existing innovative or model programs, services or activities of any kind designed to prevent or reduce the incidence of domestic abuse related to DWI, alcoholism or alcohol abuse;
   4. (4) may fund existing community-based programs, services or facilities for prevention and treatment of domestic abuse related to DWI, alcoholism or alcohol abuse;
   5. (5) shall give consideration to a broad range of approaches to prevention, education, screening, treatment or alternative sentencing, including programs that combine incarceration, treatment and aftercare, to address the problem of DWI, alcoholism or alcohol abuse; and
   6. (6) shall make grants only to counties or municipalities in counties that have established a DWI planning council and adopted a county DWI plan or are parties to a multicounty DWI plan that has been approved by the council and approved pursuant to Chapter 43, Article 3 NMSA 1978 and only for programs, services or activities consistent with that plan. A DWI plan shall also comply with local DWI grant program rules and guidelines.
7. G. The council shall use the criteria in Subsection F of this section to approve DWI programs, services or activities for funding through the county DWI program distribution. Sixty-five percent of the DWI grants awarded to local communities shall be used for alcohol-related treatment and detoxification programs.

History: Laws 1993, ch. 65, § 3; 1997, ch. 182, § 3; 1999, ch. 18, § 1; 2000, ch. 83, § 2; 2001, ch. 112, § 2; 2003, ch. 213, § 1; 2013, ch. 98, § 1; 2025, ch. 8, § 1.

ANNOTATIONS

Cross references. — For distribution from liquor excise tax revenues, see 7-1-6.40 NMSA 1978.

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, increased the amount of the local DWI grant fund that may be used for administration of the local DWI grant program; in Subsection C, after "administered by the division" deleted "Two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000)" and added "Three million dollars ($3,000,000)", after "distributed annually to the fund, less" deleted "five million six hundred thousand dollars ($5,600,000)" and added "six million one hundred thousand dollars ($6,100,000)", and after "No more than" deleted "six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000)", and added "one million one hundred thousand dollars ($1,100,000)".

The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, provided for the distribution of revenues to the interlock device fund; and in Subsection E, after "interlock device fund", deleted "to cover the costs of installing and removing ignition interlock devices for indigent people who are required, pursuant to convictions under Section 66-8-102 NMSA 1978, to install those devices in their vehicles".

The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, rewrote former Subsection A to create present Subsections A and B and redesignated former Subsections B and C as present Subsections C and D; rewrote present Subsection C; substituted "reclassified in 2002 as class A counties" for "classified in 2000 as class B counties" following "each to counties" near the beginning of present Subsection D(2); added present Subsection E and redesignated the subsequent subsections accordingly; inserted present Subsections F(3) and F(4) and redesignated former Subsections F(3) and F(4) as present Subsections F(5) and F(6); and in Subsection G, substituted "F" for "D" following "Subsection" near the beginning and added "Sixty-five percent of the DWI grants awarded to local communities shall be used for alcohol-related treatment and detoxification programs." at the end.

The 2001 amendment, effective July 1, 2001, in Subsection B, deleted "in fiscal year 2002" following "other than money appropriated", substituted "four million eight hundred thousand dollars ($4,800,000)" for "four million dollars ($4,000,000) in fiscal year 2002 and two million dollars ($2,000,000) in each fiscal year thereafter"; in Subsection C, substituted "Two million eight hundred thousand dollars ($2,800,000)" for "In fiscal year 2002, two million dollars ($2,000,000)" in the preliminary language; in Paragraph (2), inserted "each to counties classified in 2000 as", substituted "one hundred thousand persons" for "ninety-six thousand persons", and added Paragraph (3).

The 2000 amendment, effective July 1, 2001, in Subsection B, inserted "appropriated in fiscal year 2002 for distribution pursuant to Subsection C of this section and money" in the second sentence, substituted "four million dollars ($4,000,000) in fiscal year 2001 and two million dollars ($2,000,000) in each fiscal year thereafter" for "two-million dollars ($2,000,000)" in the third sentence, and substituted "one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)" for "five percent of the two million dollars ($2,000,000)" in the fourth sentence; added a new Subsection C, redesignating the remaining subsections accordingly; and updated the internal reference in present Subsection D.

The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, in Subsection C, inserted "or existing" in Paragraph (1) and redesignated former Paragraphs (4) and (5) as present Paragraphs (3) and (4).

The 1997 amendment, effective July 1, 1998, in Subsection A, substituted "Two million dollars ($2,000,000) of liquor excise tax revenues distributed to the fund and all other money in the fund, other than money appropriated for DWI program distributions, are" for "Money in the fund is" in the first sentence, added the second sentence, and substituted "the two million dollars ($2,000,000) of liquor excise tax revenues distributed" for "any appropriation" in the third sentence; rewrote Paragraph (3) of Subsection C; and added Subsection D.