SENATE BILL 56

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

INTRODUCED BY

Cynthia Nava

AN ACT

RELATING TO EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION; CREATING THE SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS DIVISION OF THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

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

     Section 1. Section 9-24-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2004, Chapter 27, Section 4, as amended) is amended to read:

     "9-24-4. DEPARTMENT CREATED.--

          A. The "public education department" is created in the executive branch. The department is a cabinet department and includes the following divisions:

                (1) the administrative services division;

                (2) the assessment and accountability division;

                (3) the educator quality division;

                (4) the Indian education division;

                (5) the information technology division;

                (6) the instructional support and vocational education division;

                (7) the program support and student transportation division;

                (8) the quality assurance and systems integration division;

                (9) the rural education division; [and]

                (10) the science and mathematics division; and

                [(10)] (11) the vocational rehabilitation division.  

          B. The secretary may organize the department and divisions of the department and may transfer or merge functions between divisions and bureaus in the interest of efficiency and economy."

     Section 2. APPROPRIATION.--Four hundred twenty-four thousand dollars ($424,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 to establish the science and mathematics division in the department. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.

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