A. The General Richard T. Knowles legislative scholarship program shall be administered by the board of regents of the New Mexico military institute. The board of regents shall establish one hundred twelve scholarships available to New Mexico residents, one scholarship available for each state legislative district. B. Annually, each state legislator may nominate four prospective scholarship recipients to the board of regents of the New Mexico military institute. If a legislator has no applicant from the legislator's district, that senator or representative may choose to nominate an applicant from a senate or representative district contiguous to the legislator's own district, thus maintaining geographical diversity in the corps of cadets while affording a greater opportunity for more New Mexicans to receive a scholarship. In the event no applicant is available from either the legislator's district or a contiguous district, the scholarship may be awarded to any of the qualified nominees from any state legislative district. C. The board of regents shall establish criteria for the awarding of scholarships. Criteria shall include scholastic ability, faculty recommendations, standardized test scores, letters of recommendation, school honors and extracurricular activities. History: Laws 1989, ch. 44, § 2; 1989, ch. 45, § 2; 1998 (1st S.S.), ch. 4, § 2; 2009, ch. 228, § 1; 2023, ch. 58, § 1. The 2023 amendment, effective June 16, 2023, removed a deadline for finding an applicant for the General Richard T. Knowles legislative scholarship from the legislator's district or a contiguous district, and removed a four-year limit for recipients of the legislative scholarship; in Subsection B, after "applicant is available", deleted "by July 1 of each year"; and deleted Subsection C and redesignated former Subsection D as Subsection C. The 2009 amendment, effective June 19, 2009, in Subsection B, added the last sentence. The 1998 amendment, effective on August 2, 1998, in Subsection A, substituted "General Richard T. Knowles legislative scholarship program" for "legislator scholarship program", and substituted "for" for "in" near the end; and added the last sentence in Subsection B.
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