AN ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION; BROADENING THE DEFINITION OF "INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL".

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

Section 1. Section 22-15-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967, Chapter 16, Section 206, as amended) is amended to read:

"22-15-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Instructional Material Law:

A. "division" or "bureau" means the instructional material bureau of the department of education;

B. "director" or "chief" means the chief of the bureau;

C. "instructional material" means school textbooks and other educational media, including on-line resources, distance learning media and productivity software;

D. "multiple list" means a written list of those instructional materials approved by the state board;

E. "membership" means the total enrollment of qualified students on the fortieth day of the school year entitled to the free use of instructional material pursuant to the Instructional Material Law; and

F. "additional pupil" means a pupil in a school district's, state institution's or private school's current year's certified forty-day membership above the number certified in the school district's, state institution's or private school's prior year's forty-day membership."

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