0001|                SENATE RULES COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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0002|                           SENATE BILL 1267
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0003|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0011|                                AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO THE PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE;
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0013|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TEACHER WRITING INSTRUCTION
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0014|     PROJECTS TO IMPROVE WRITING AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS OF
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0015|     PRIMARY AND SECONDARY STUDENTS.
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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.--Two hundred thousand dollars
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0019|     ($200,000) 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|     1998 for the purpose of funding the expansion of teacher
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0022|     writing instruction projects at eastern New Mexico university,
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0023|     the university of New Mexico and New Mexico state university
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0024|     and the establishment of an additional writing instruction
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0025|     project in western or northern New Mexico.  The purpose of the
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0001|     writing instruction projects is to provide professional
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0002|     development instruction to primary and secondary school
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0003|     teachers to enable teachers to improve writing and critical
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0004|     thinking skills of primary and secondary students and to enable
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0005|     those teachers to provide instruction to other teachers.  Any
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0006|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0007|     fiscal year 1998 shall revert to the general fund.
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