0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1285
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                              RICK MIERA
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ASSIST NEW MEXICO TEACHERS IN THE
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0012|     TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY.
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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.--Seventy-five thousand dollars
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0016|     ($75,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0017|     commission on higher education for expenditure in fiscal year
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0018|     1998 for the purpose of providing summer institutes and ongoing
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0019|     assistance to New Mexico teachers in teaching and promoting the
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0020|     teaching of geography.  This appropriation is contingent upon
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0021|     matching funds and a donation of instructional geography
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0022|     materials from the national geographic society.  Any unexpended
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0023|     or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year
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0024|     1998 shall revert to the general fund.
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0025|     .116404.1
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