The commission [department] may adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of the Fire Fighter and Peace Officer Survivors Scholarship 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 1986, ch. 50, § 5; 1991, ch. 262, § 6. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. For designation of the commission on higher education as the higher education department, see 9-25-4.1 NMSA 1978. The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, substituted 'commission' for 'board' in the first sentence and added the second sentence.
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