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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Chavez

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/9/06

2/13/06 HB 753

SHORT TITLE UNM Chicano Studies Tenure Track Positions

SB

ANALYST Hoffmann

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY06

FY07

$50.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to Senate Bill 501.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Higher Education Department (HED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 753 appropriates $50.0 from the general fund to the Board of Regents of the Univer-

sity of New Mexico to expand the university’s Chicano-Hispano-Mexicano studies program to

provide for tenure track assistant professorships, lecturers, graduate assistants, community out-

reach and curriculum development staff.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $50,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert

to the general fund.

According to the Higher Education Department, House Bill 753 is considered recurring because

it proposes funding for salaries to hire tenure-track faculty members.

House Bill 753 – Page

2

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

This request was not on the list of priority projects submitted by UNM to the New Mexico

Higher Education Department for review and was not included in the Department’s funding rec-

ommendation for FY07. This line-item proposal was not included in the LFC’s appropriation

recommendations.

According to the Higher Education Department, the current budget of $130,662 is funded by

UNM.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

Senate Bill 501 appropriates $250,000 for a similar purpose as this bill. The only difference is

that House Bill 753 (this bill) uses the word “staff” after “lecturers, graduate assistants, commu-

nity outreach, and curriculum development. Senate Bill 501 does not.

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