44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS.

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

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Thirteen million six hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($13,675,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state department of public education for expenditure in fiscal year 2001 for the purpose of funding additional program units in early childhood education at the program unit value established by the superintendent of public instruction for the purpose of funding full-day kindergarten programs. In granting approval for funding full-day kindergarten programs, the state department of public education shall require full-day attendance and shall give preference to school districts whose schools emphasize literacy programs. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall revert to the general fund.