SENATE BILL 394

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Sue Wilson Beffort

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO EXPAND NURSING PROGRAMS STATEWIDE.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--

          A. Two million dollars ($2,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the commission on higher education for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 in the following amounts for the following purposes:

                (1) one million four hundred eighty-five thousand six hundred dollars ($1,485,600) to expand funding for faculty salaries, faculty positions and classroom capacity and to develop programs to increase student retention in nursing programs at institutions of higher learning statewide with special emphasis on support for community, branch and junior colleges serving rural areas of New Mexico; and

                (2) five hundred fourteen thousand four hundred dollars ($514,400) to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico to allow for increased enrollment in the nursing program.

          B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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