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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Nava
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
1/23/2007
HB
SHORT TITLE NMSU Underrepresented Student Alliance
SB 30
ANALYST McOlash
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$250.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates House Bill 58, except for title.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
New Mexico State University (NMSU)
New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Bill 30 appropriates $250,000 from the General Fund to the Regents of NMSU for
expenditure in FY 2008 to pay for recruitment and retention efforts of the Alliance for
Underrepresented Students
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $250,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund.
Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2008 shall revert to the
General Fund.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
The Alliance for Underrepresented Students (AUS) is a public service project of NMSU that has
been supported by annual funding under the General Appropriations Act for the past ten years.
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The university submits funding requests annually for this and other initiatives that are considered
to be Research and Public Service Projects (RPSP).
The goal of the project is to increase the number of Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees in
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) awarded to underrepresented
minorities and students with disabilities.
The AUS project has two programs:
1.
The statewide Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP)
2.
The Regional Alliance for Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology for
Students with Disabilities (RASEM).
According to HED, this $250,000 request duplicates the FY08 base and expansion request that
NMSU had previously submitted to HED. NMSU requested a total budget of $643,600 for the
AUS project, including a base request of $393,600 and a $250,000 base expansion request.
CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP
Senate Bill 30 (NMSU Underrepresented Student Alliance) duplicates
House Bill 58 (
NMSU Alliance
for Underserved Students), except for the title.
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