SENATE BILL 484

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

INTRODUCED BY

Leonard Tsosie

FOR THE INDIAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO TRAIN AND EMPLOY RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES AS TEACHERS IN THE GALLUP-McKINLEY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 to contract with a program to train and employ, for at least a two-year commitment, recent college graduates as teachers in the Gallup-McKinley county public schools. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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