0001|                           SENATE BILL 380
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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|                           SHANNON ROBINSON
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE
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0012|     UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO TO PROVIDE HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS
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0013|     TO GRADUATE RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANTS.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM.--The board of
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0017|     regents of the university of New Mexico shall initiate a
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0018|     graduate student health insurance program.  The program shall
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0019|     make health insurance benefits available for purchase by all
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0020|     graduate students; however, the university shall pay one-half
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0021|     of the annual policy premium for graduate students who are
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0022|     under contract with the university as teaching assistants or
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0023|     research assistants.
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0024|          Section 2.  APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred fifty thousand
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0025|     dollars ($250,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0001|     board of regents of the university of New Mexico for
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0002|     expenditure in fiscal year 1998 for the purpose of paying one-
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0003|     half of the health insurance annual premium for research
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0004|     assistants and teaching assistants at the university.  Any
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0005|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0006|     fiscal year 1998 shall revert to the general fund.
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