New Mexico Statutes Chapter 20. Military Affairs § 20-4-13. National guard scholarship fund

The adjutant general shall maintain and administer a scholarship fund for the benefit of enlisted members of the national guard who have demonstrated potential to become commissioned officers. The fund shall consist of such money and assets as the legislature shall appropriate and as shall be donated from private sources. No less than half of the annual expenditures of the fund shall be for the benefit of national guard enlisted members enrolled in a commissioning program at the New Mexico Military Institute and the remainder in such programs at other educational institutions within the state.