SENATE BILL 493

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2025

INTRODUCED BY

Pete Campos

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FOR THE KANW EDUCATIONAL RADIO STATION.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is appropriated from the government results and opportunity program fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2026 for the KANW educational radio station to purchase equipment and add resources for reporters to cover rural New Mexico news. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2026 shall revert to the government results and opportunity program fund.

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