0001|                            HOUSE BILL 93
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            J. PAUL TAYLOR
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0008|            FOR THE LEGISLATIVE EDUCATION STUDY COMMITTEE
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO EDUCATION; PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
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0012|     STUDENT TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM; CREATING A FUND; MAKING AN
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0013|     APPROPRIATION.
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0014|     
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.--
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0017|               A.  In order to encourage individuals to enter the
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0018|     teaching profession and to retain teachers in New Mexico, the
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0019|     commission on higher education shall promulgate regulations to
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0020|     establish and administer a student teacher scholarship program.
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0021|               B.  In establishing the program, the commission on
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0022|     higher education shall:
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0023|                    (1)  develop standardized methods to identify
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0024|     eligible student teachers and to distribute money to accredited
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0025|     teacher training institutions;
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0001|                    (2)  verify that recipients are employed as
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0002|     full-time teachers in a public school setting for at least one
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0003|     year after completion of student teaching;
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0004|                    (3)  develop criteria for selection of
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0005|     scholarship recipients, which shall include academic
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0006|     performance, campus involvement, letters of recommendation and
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0007|     personal commitment to the teaching profession;
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0008|                    (4)  pay full tuition for recipients for the
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0009|     semester in which they are student teaching; and
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0010|                    (5)  ensure that recipients comply with all
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0011|     regulations adopted by the commission for the scholarship
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0012|     program.
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0013|          Section 2.  SCHOLARSHIP FUND CREATED.--The "student
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0014|     teacher scholarship fund" is created in the state treasury. 
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0015|     Money in the fund shall not revert at the end of a fiscal year.
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0016|     Money appropriated to the fund or accruing to it through gifts,
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0017|     grants, bequests and devices shall be deposited in the fund. 
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0018|     The fund shall be invested as other state funds are invested. 
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0019|     Money in the fund is appropriated to the commission on higher
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0020|     education to carry out the purposes of Section 1 of this act.
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0021|     Disbursements from the fund shall be made upon warrants drawn
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0022|     by the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to
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0023|     vouchers signed by the executive director of the commission on
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0024|     higher education or his designee.  The commission shall use no
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0025|     more than three percent of the money in the fund for
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0001|     administration.  The remaining money in the fund shall be used
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0002|     to carry out the provisions of Section 1 of this act.
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0003|          Section 3.  APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred fifty thousand
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0004|     dollars ($250,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0005|     commission on higher education for the student teacher
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0006|     scholarship fund for expenditure in fiscal year 1998 to carry
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0007|     out the provisions of Section 1 of this act.  Any unexpended or
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0008|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1998
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0009|     shall not revert to the general fund.
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0010|                                                         State of New Mexico
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0011|                      House of Representatives
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0012|   
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0013|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0014|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0017|                                                February 7, 1997
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0020|   Mr. Speaker:
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0021|   
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0022|        Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0023|   
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0024|                        HOUSE BILL 93
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0025|                               
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0001|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0002|   recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0003|   APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0005|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0011| <u>                                </u>                             Samuel F. Vigil, Chairman
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0016|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0018|                        Date <u>            </u>
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0020|   The roll call vote was<u> 8 </u> For<u> 2 </u> Against
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0021|   Yes:      8
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0022|             No:       Mallory, Weeks
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0023|             Excused:  McSherry, Miera, Nicely
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0024|             Absent:   None
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