0001|                           SENATE BILL 355
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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|                            LEONARD TSOSIE
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FUNDING;
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0012|     AMENDING THE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL PLANNING ACT.
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0013|     
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  Section 21-2-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1973,
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0016|     Chapter 233, Section 2) is amended to read:
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0017|          "21-2-2.  DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Post-Secondary
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0018|     Educational Planning Act:
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0019|               A.  "post-secondary education":
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0020|                    (1)  means education, training or retraining
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0021|     for persons sixteen years of age or older who have graduated
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0022|     from secondary school or left elementary or secondary school
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0023|     without graduating from secondary school, which is designed to
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0024|     provide for ~[such]~ |those| persons:
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0025|                         (a)  adult basic education;
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0001|                         (b)  high school equivalency education;
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0002|                         (c)  pre-vocational education;
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0003|                         (d)  vocational education;
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0004|                         (e)  technical education;
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0005|                         (f)  general academic education;
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0006|                         (g)  undergraduate academic education
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0007|     leading to associate's and bachelor's degrees;
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0008|                         (h)  graduate academic education leading
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0009|     to master's and doctor's degrees;
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0010|                         (i)  undergraduate and graduate
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0011|     professional education leading to professional degrees;
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0012|                         (j)  continuing education; or
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0013|                         (k)  some combination of the above; and
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0014|                    (2)  includes public, private, nonprofit,
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0015|     |tribal or federally created| and proprietary educational
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0016|     institutions and programs of the following types, among
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0017|     others:
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0018|                         (a)  technical and vocational
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0019|     institutes;
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0020|                         (b)  junior colleges;
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0021|                         (c)  branch community colleges;
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0022|                         (d)  colleges and universities;
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0023|                         (e)  post-secondary military institutes;
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0024|                         (f)  post-secondary vocational schools;
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0025|                         (g)  adult vocational and pre-vocational
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0001|     manpower and training programs;
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0002|                         (h)  programs designed to identify
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0003|     persons who can benefit from post-secondary education and to
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0004|     assist them in enrolling in appropriate programs; ~[and]~
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0005|                         (i)  programs providing guidance,
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0006|     counselling and placement services for persons in connection
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0007|     with their participation in post-secondary education; and
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0008|                         |(j)  the New Mexico campuses of post-
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0009|     secondary educational institutions that are wholly owned and
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0010|     controlled by a tribe located in whole or in part in New
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0011|     Mexico; and|
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0012|               B.  "state commission" means the state commission
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0013|     on post-secondary education."
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