SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The special session is officially over with the House adjourning this evening. As of Thursday evening, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a number of bills, including House Bill 1. That bill provides $162 million to different areas in response to federal funding cuts. It includes about $66 million for the state's Healthcare Authority for a number of programs including maintaining SNAP food benefits, bunding food banks, funding school-based food programs, and reducing health insurance costs.

"It's going to help over 6,000 New Mexico families avoid massive insurance premium increases, allow them to keep insuring themselves and their families," said Rep. Nathan Small, a democrat representing Doña Ana county.

These are just one-time allotments lasting through July

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