HOUSE BILL 49

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2006

INTRODUCED BY

Patricia A. Lundstrom

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FOR TRIBAL LITERACY PROGRAMS.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 for new literacy programs on tribal sites in McKinley county that integrate in-school, after-school and summer school literacy programs for children in grades kindergarten through eight. The department shall contract with a nonprofit sponsorship organization that has more than fifty years of experience working with Native American children and that is already working in New Mexico on the type of integrated tribal literacy program described in this section. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.

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