The department may adopt such rules as necessary or appropriate to implement the provisions of the New Mexico Scholars Act. A financial aid officer may exercise professional judgment when special circumstances exist to adjust the cost of attendance or the expected family contribution or to modify other factors that make the program responsive to a student's special financial circumstances and for which documentation exists in the student's file within the parameters authorized for this program.
History: Laws 1989, ch. 212, § 9; 1991, ch. 262, § 21; 2013, ch. 171, § 6.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2013 amendment, effective July 1, 2013, eliminated the authority to issue regulations; in the title, deleted "and regulations", and in the first sentence, changed "commission" to "department", and after "such rules", deleted "regulations and procedures".
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, added the second sentence.