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

SPONSOR Culbert

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/17/2007

HB 1105

SHORT TITLE UNM African American & Africana Studies

SB

ANALYST Moser

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$190.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to SB385 and SB709

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

NM Higher Education Department (NMHED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 1105 appropriates $190,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Regents of the

University of New Mexico (UNM) for expenditure in FY08 for the Charlie Morrisey Research

Hall to repair and maintain existing archival facilities, display space, and provide base resources

for faculty led student research focusing on the Black Diasporas at the national and international

levels.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $190,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall revert to the

general fund.

House Bill 1105 – Page

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SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The Charlie Morrisey Research Hall was established in 1990, to respond to these research

interests and needs related to African Americans. The mission of the Research Hall is to become

the southwest's best repository of documents about Black people of the Southwest. The

Research Hall's collections include rare books, rare manuscripts, rare magazines and other

publications, old photographs, audio and video tapes, deeds and titles to lands, oral histories, and

other archival artifacts which document the presence of Africans and African Americans in New

Mexico specifically, and southwest in general.

The Charlie Morrisey Research Hall organizes public lectures and panel discussions to address

the presence in and the contributions of Africans and African Americans to the southwest.

Periodic exhibitions of rare photographs and artifacts are included in the activities of the Hall.

The appropriation would be used to repair and maintain existing storage facilities for archival

materials, support base resources for faculty led student research at the national and international

levels.

This request was not submitted by UNM to the New Mexico Higher Education Department for

review, and is not included in the Department’s funding recommendation for FY08.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

SB385 is a relationship bill that appropriates $25,000 from the General Fund to the Board of

Regents of the University of New Mexico (UNM) for expenditure in FY08 to support the

African-American Studies Program.

SB709 is a related bill that appropriates $75,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Regents

of the University of New Mexico (UNM) for expenditure in FY08 for the African-American

Student Services Program and operations.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

The African American Studies Program at UNM offers a variety of courses specific to the

literature, history, and culture of the African or Black Diaspora. The program offers an

interdisciplinary baccalaureate degree, a specialized minor, and a general minor in African

American Studies.

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