0001| SENATE BILL 355
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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| LEONARD TSOSIE
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0010| AN ACT
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0011| RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FUNDING;
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0012| AMENDING THE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL PLANNING ACT.
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0014| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015| Section 1. Section 21-2-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1973,
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0016| Chapter 233, Section 2) is amended to read:
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0017| "21-2-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Post-Secondary
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0018| Educational Planning Act:
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0019| A. "post-secondary education":
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0020| (1) means education, training or retraining
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0021| for persons sixteen years of age or older who have graduated
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0022| from secondary school or left elementary or secondary school
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0023| without graduating from secondary school, which is designed to
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0024| provide for [such] those persons:
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0025| (a) adult basic education;
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0001| (b) high school equivalency education;
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0002| (c) pre-vocational education;
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0003| (d) vocational education;
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0004| (e) technical education;
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0005| (f) general academic education;
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0006| (g) undergraduate academic education
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0007| leading to associate's and bachelor's degrees;
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0008| (h) graduate academic education leading
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0009| to master's and doctor's degrees;
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0010| (i) undergraduate and graduate
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0011| professional education leading to professional degrees;
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0012| (j) continuing education; or
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0013| (k) some combination of the above; and
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0014| (2) includes public, private, nonprofit,
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0015| tribal or federally created and proprietary educational
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0016| institutions and programs of the following types, among
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0017| others:
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0018| (a) technical and vocational
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0019| institutes;
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0020| (b) junior colleges;
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0021| (c) branch community colleges;
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0022| (d) colleges and universities;
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0023| (e) post-secondary military institutes;
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0024| (f) post-secondary vocational schools;
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0025| (g) adult vocational and pre-vocational
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0001| manpower and training programs;
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0002| (h) programs designed to identify
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0003| persons who can benefit from post-secondary education and to
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0004| assist them in enrolling in appropriate programs; [and]
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0005| (i) programs providing guidance,
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0006| counselling and placement services for persons in connection
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0007| with their participation in post-secondary education; and
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0008| (j) the New Mexico campuses of post-
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0009| secondary educational institutions that are wholly owned and
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0010| controlled by a tribe located in whole or in part in New
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0011| Mexico; and
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0012| B. "state commission" means the state commission
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0013| on post-secondary education."
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