0001|                            HOUSE BILL 184
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            KIP W. NICELY
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A MEDIA LITERACY PROGRAM
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0012|     STATEWIDE.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--
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0016|               A.  Four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000)
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0017|     is appropriated from the general fund to the state department
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0018|     of public education for expenditure in fiscal year 1999 for
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0019|     the purpose of conducting a statewide media literacy program
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0020|     including:
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0021|                    (1)  expansion of media literacy as substance
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0022|     abuse prevention;
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0023|                    (2)  dissemination of technology and media
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0024|     literacy programs;
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0025|                    (3)  unique educational CD-ROM technology
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0001|     training;
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0002|                    (4)  support of Taos talking picture festival
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0003|     media literacy forum;
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0004|                    (5)  increase of native American media
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0005|     literacy programs;
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0006|                    (6)  development of a comprehensive critical
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0007|     thinking media literacy curriculum;
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0008|                    (7)  enhancing the "empowering parents of
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0009|     young children" program;
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0010|                    (8)  expanding free training for rural and
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0011|     disadvantaged groups;
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0012|                    (9)  extending training programs;
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0013|                    (10)  evaluating the programs; and
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0014|                    (11)  continuing building educational
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0015|     programs.  
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0016|               B.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0017|     remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the
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0018|     general fund.
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