FUND DISBURSEMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL RADIO

SB0199

SENATE BILL 199

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2026

INTRODUCED BY

Pete Campos

AN ACT

RELATING TO STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; ALLOWING
DISBURSEMENTS FROM THE EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION EQUIPMENT
REPLACEMENT FUND TO BE MADE FOR EDUCATIONAL RADIO; MAKING AN
APPROPRIATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

SECTION 1.
Section 21-1-34 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1977,
Chapter 330, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

"21-1-34. EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT
FUND--DISBURSEMENT.--The "educational television equipment
replacement fund" is created
as a nonreverting fund in the
state treasury
. The higher education department shall develop
criteria and promulgate rules for the disbursement of money in
this fund for the replacement of equipment at educational
television
and radio
stations operated by
state
institutions of
higher education
or public schools
. Disbursement shall be made
to the institutions by warrant of the department of finance and
administration upon vouchers signed by the secretary of higher
education. It is the intent of the legislature that [
in
subsequent years
] a specific line item for educational
television
and radio
replacement shall be included in the
appropriations recommended for educational television
and radio

by the department. [
The appropriation to the fund in the
General Appropriation Act of 1982 shall not revert to the
general fund at the end of any fiscal year, and no subsequent
appropriation to the fund shall revert unless it contains the
sentence "The appropriation to the educational television
equipment replacement fund shall revert".
]"

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