HOUSE BILL 279

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2020

INTRODUCED BY

Tomás E. Salazar

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE PUBLIC PRE-KINDERGARTEN FUND AND THE CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES PRE-KINDERGARTEN FUND TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF THREE- AND FOUR-YEAR-OLDS IN EARLY PRE-KINDERGARTEN AND PRE-KINDERGARTEN.

 

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--

          A. Fifty-four million five hundred thousand dollars ($54,500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public pre-kindergarten fund for expenditure in fiscal year 2021 and subsequent fiscal years to fund early pre-kindergarten and pre-kindergarten in public schools statewide. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.

          B. Fifty-four million five hundred thousand dollars ($54,500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the children, youth and families pre-kindergarten fund for expenditure in fiscal year 2021 and subsequent fiscal years to fund early pre-kindergarten and pre-kindergarten in private pre-kindergartens statewide. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.

          C. The appropriations provided in this section are intended to provide funding for at least eighty percent of four-year-olds and at least twenty percent of three-year-olds throughout the state.

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