SENATE BILL 85

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2006

INTRODUCED BY

Dede Feldman

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO INCREASE FUNDING AND EXPAND THE PROGRAM OF PRE-DENTAL CLUBS IN NEW MEXICO.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the higher education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 to increase funding for pre-dental clubs and to fund pre-dental clubs at four additional institutions of higher learning to foster better preparedness of New Mexico students competing for entry to dental schools and to promote increased numbers of New Mexicans in the dental profession. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the general fund.

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