0001|                       SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 2
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SPECIAL SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           Shannon Robinson
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THAT THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION RECOGNIZE
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0012|     THAT ATHLETIC TUITION WAIVERS ARE AVAILABLE TO BOTH CITIZENS
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0013|     OF THE UNITED STATES AND CITIZENS OF ANY FOREIGN COUNTRY.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, nonresident student tuition waivers are commonly
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0016|     used for nonresident students who receive resident status for
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0017|     the purpose of tuition payment; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, tuition waiver programs that allow nonresident
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0019|     students to pay resident student rates at the state's post-
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0020|     secondary educational institutions have existed in state law
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0021|     since 1970; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, the term "resident student" includes a student
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0023|     who receives an athletic scholarship from a post-secondary
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0024|     educational institution for the purpose of tuition payment and
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0025|     budget and revenue calculations; and
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0001|          WHEREAS, the legislature funded athletic tuition waivers
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0002|     at one hundred percent in Chapter 116, Laws of 1998; and
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0003|          WHEREAS, the New Mexico commission on higher education
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0004|     deals with financial issues for post-secondary educational
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0005|     institutions and is concerned with the financing of those
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0006|     institutions and with the equitable distribution of available
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0007|     funds among them;
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0008|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0009|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the commission on higher education be
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0010|     requested to recognize that athletic tuition waivers are
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0011|     available to both citizens of the United States and citizens
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0012|     of any foreign country and that budget and revenue
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0013|     calculations reflect this beginning with appropriations made
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0014|     for the fiscal year 1999; and
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0015|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0016|     transmitted to the president of each post-secondary
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0017|     educational institution designated in Article 12, Section 11
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0018|     of the constitution of New Mexico and to the executive
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0019|     director of the New Mexico commission on higher education.
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