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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Pinto
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2-6-2008
HB
SHORT TITLE
High School Prep Program Data Analysis
SB 494
ANALYST
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY08
FY09
$100.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Higher Education Department (HED)
Public Education Department (PED)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Bill 494 appropriates $100 thousand from the general fund to the board of regents of the
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to fund data research and analysis of middle
school and high school student participation in a college and career preparatory educational
program.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $100 thousand contained in Senate Bill 494 is a recurring expense to the
general fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY09 shall
revert to the general fund.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
According to the Higher Education department, Senate Bill 494 proposes to collect data to
analyze and research the success of the Master of Science Teaching (MST) program
by surveying New Mexico’s public middle and high school students who have been taught by
teachers who earned their MST from NM Tech. NM Tech offers a Master of Science Teaching