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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Powdrell-Culbert
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
1/23/2008
HB 137
SHORT TITLE NM Supercomputing Challenge
SB
ANALYST Aguilar
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY08
FY09
$25.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Relates to HB-131
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Public Education Department (PED)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 137 appropriates $25 thousand from the general fund to Public Education Department
for supporting the New Mexico Supercomputing challenge in high schools and middle schools.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $25 thousand contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general
fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year shall revert
to the general fund.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
PED reports that the NM Supercomputing Challenge provides a learning experience for teams of
pre-college students in scientific inquiry, project management, computational analysis and
presentation skills. The Supercomputing Challenge is a year-long statewide competition for
prizes and scholarships. Each team of up to five students and a sponsoring teacher defines and
works on a single computational project of its own choosing. The goal by 2012 is to have at