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

SPONSOR Salazar

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/1/08

HM 47

SHORT TITLE

"Adult Basic Education & Literacy Day"

SB

ANALYST Shaya

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Memorial 47 makes Friday, February 1, 2008 be declared "Adult Basic Education and

Literacy Day" at the New Mexico House of Representatives.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

No Fiscal Implication

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

House Memorial 47 makes the following statements about adult literacy;

•

High levels of adult literacy and a prosperous future go hand in hand; and

•

More than forty percent of New Mexico's adults have literacy issues that severely affect

their lives and those of their families, their ability to work productively and their full

participation as citizens and residents of the state; and

•

New Mexico's community colleges, universities and volunteer and community-based

organizations provided more than one million three hundred thousand instructional hours

of basic skills and literacy services to more than thirty thousand adults during the 2006-

2007 program year, with the result that one thousand eight hundred forty adult education

students received their GEDs, nine hundred sixty enrolled in post-secondary education or

training, eight hundred forty-two entered employment and one thousand one hundred

sixty-seven retained employment; and

•

The higher education department, the New Mexico adult education association, New

Mexico's adult basic education programs and New Mexico's community-based and

nonprofit literacy organizations are jointly committed to eradicating illiteracy in our state;

and

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Without this adult basic education and literacy system, adult New Mexicans would not be

able to access the services and benefits of citizenship that are due them;

RS/nt