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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