0001| .                       HOUSE BILL 56
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                   RICHARD T. (DICK) KNOWLES
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0011|                             AN ACT
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0012|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE MATCHING FUNDS FOR NATIONAL
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0013|     SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAMS TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION OF
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0014|     UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE
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0015|     EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|       Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--Seven hundred fifty thousand
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0019|     dollars ($750,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0020|     commission on higher education for expenditure in fiscal year
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0021|     1997 for the purpose of providing state matching funds to enable
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0022|     the alliance for minority participation, a partnership of
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0023|     twenty-six New Mexico public post-secondary educational
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0024|     institutions, and the regional alliance on science, engineering
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0025|     and mathematics for students with disabilities to participate in
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0001|     national science foundation programs to increase participation
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0002|     of underrepresented students in undergraduate and graduate
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0003|     educational programs.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0004|     remaining at the end of fiscal year 1997 shall revert to the
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0005|     general fund.
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