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

SPONSOR Nunez

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/23/2007

HB 57

SHORT TITLE NMSU Equestrian Program

SB

ANALYST McOlash

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$150.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Duplicates SB 93 except for title.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

New Mexico State University (NMSU)

New Mexico Department of Higher Education (HED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 57 appropriates $150,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Regents of NMSU

for expenditure in FY 2008 to expand the equestrian program.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $150,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2008 shall revert to the

General Fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The NMSU Athletics Department added the Women's Equestrian program in FY06 as part of the

new requirements for Division I-A membership as well as to address the university's commit-

ment to gender equity and the requirements for the National Collegiate Athletic Association

(NCAA) certification in 2006.

House Bill 57 – Page

2

In FY06, the Athletics Department received a $280,300 non-recurring General Fund appropria-

tion contained in SB190 (Laws 2005, Ch. 34, 47th Legislature, 1st Session). According to

NMSU, the increase in HB57 is needed to address an increase in grants-in-aid support and to en-

able NMSU to give the NCAA maximum of 15 scholarships allowed for the sport. Also, the dol-

lar increase will be used for recruiting purposes and will support compliance with Title IX as the

university goes through NCAA certification.

This proposal was submitted to the HED by NMSU but was not included in the Department’s

funding recommendation for FY08. However, the base recurring budget was included in the De-

partment’s funding recommendation for FY08 in the amount of $349,700.

DUPLICATION

House Bill 57 (NMSU Equestrian Program) is a duplicate of SB 93 (Expand NMSU Equestrian

Program), except for the title.

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