HOUSE BILL 20

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Peter Wirth

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE SCIENCE INSTRUCTION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN SANTA FE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 to contract with a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving science education in Santa Fe to provide teacher training and in-class mentors and to integrate hands-on science techniques into standard curricula. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the general fund.

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