HOUSE BILL 397

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Nick L. Salazar

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO CONTINUE THE KNME-TV'S AMERICAN INDIAN HEADSTART LITERACY INITIATIVE TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY RELEVANT PRESCHOOL CURRICULA FOR NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred ninety-three thousand six hundred fifty-two dollars ($193,652) is appropriated from the general fund to the university of New Mexico board of regents for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 to continue and expand a collaboration among the university of New Mexico Native American studies faculty, KNME-TV, the children, youth and families department and other New Mexico educational institutions to implement provisions of the Indian Education Act by continuing to design, develop and implement culturally relevant tribal and urban Indian preschool curricula that foster English literacy and support the maintenance and development of native languages. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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