0001|                           SENATE BILL 269
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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|                             CYNTHIA NAVA
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT PUBLIC SERVICE LEARNING
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0012|     INITIATIVES.
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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.  Two hundred eighty thousand dollars ($280,000)
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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 providing service learning training for
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0020|     administrators and local school boards, expanding public
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0021|     service learning initiatives in nine regions of the state and
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0022|     infusing service learning pedagogy into the state department
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0023|     of public education for the welfare of their communities.  Any
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0024|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0025|     fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the general fund.
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0001|               B.  All students, including students with
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0002|     disabilities, shall be provided public service learning
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0003|     opportunities in their school districts.  The state department
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0004|     of public education shall collaborate with the commission on
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0005|     higher education to involve post-secondary institutions and
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0006|     the New Mexico commission for national and community service
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0007|     to ensure coordination and the use of federal Community
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0008|     Services Act of 1974 funds.
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