HOUSE BILL 52

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

INTRODUCED BY

Peter Wirth

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE SCIENCE INSTRUCTION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN SANTA FE.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Forty thousand dollars ($40,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2009 to contract with a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving science education in Santa Fe to provide teacher training and in-class mentors for students and to integrate hands-on science techniques into standard elementary school curricula. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2009 shall revert to the general fund.

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