0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1197
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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|                         JIMMIE GARNENEZ, SR.
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO EDUCATION; REQUIRING THAT A PERSON WHO DOES NOT
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0012|     GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL OR DOES NOT RECEIVE A GENERAL
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0013|     EQUIVALENCY DIPLOMA DEMONSTRATE THAT HE CAN READ AT A SEVENTH-
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0014|     GRADE LEVEL PRIOR TO RECEIVING ANY FORM OF STATE FINANCIAL
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0015|     ASSISTANCE.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|          Section 1.  READING LEVEL--FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.--A person
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0019|     who has not graduated from high school or has not received a
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0020|     general equivalency diploma shall not be eligible to receive
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0021|     any form of state financial assistance until he demonstrates
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0022|     that he has the ability to read at a seventh-grade level.
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0023|     .115120.1
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