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SPONSOR: |
B. Sanchez |
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HB |
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SHORT TITLE: |
At-Risk Youth Employment Program |
SB |
356 |
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ANALYST: |
Collard |
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APPROPRIATION
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Appropriation
Contained |
Estimated
Additional Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
FY03 |
FY04 |
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$118.3 |
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Recurring |
General
Fund |
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(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates
Senate Bill 161
Relates
to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act
Responses
Received From
New
Mexico Labor Department
Department
of Health
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
Senate Bill 356
appropriates $118.3 from the general fund to the Labor Department for the purpose
of contracting for an at-risk youth employment training program in Bernalillo,
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $118.3
contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund. Any
unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY04 shall revert to
the general fund.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
The New Mexico Labor
Department suggests that this bill will require the department to identify
staff to provide administrative and oversight services on behalf of the
project. Appropriate administrative
funds and resources must be provided to deliver these services.
DUPLICATION, RELATIONSHIP
Senate Bill 356 is
duplicative of Senate Bill 161. Senate
Bill 356 is also related to an appropriation in the general appropriations
act. In the Operations program of the
Labor Department, $700.0 is appropriated from the general fund to fund at-risk
youth programs in the state.
TECHNICAL ISSUES
The Labor Department indicates there is no
specific service or type of program identified other than training and
employment programs and more definition is needed.
The Labor Department also notes that, as with
any add-on project funded outside the realm of the department’s federally
funded mandates, amounts for administrative costs must be appropriated to the
department. For similar general fund
transactions, historically the department has been allowed to charge a six
percent administrative fee against the appropriation.
The Department of Health indicates the bill does
not define youth or at-risk youth with respect to age or educational
status. Further, the bill does not state
how efforts to administer the programs will be divided among the four counties.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
The Labor Department
suggests the alternative of awarding the funds to the department, specifically
identifying the department as the provider and assuring the department the
ability to program these funds within the department’s currently existing field
office structure in the designated counties.
This would provide greater efficiency and would incur fewer
administrative costs.
The same services are
currently being funded and provided in these counties through the Central Area
Workforce Development Board under the Workforce Investment Act for youth
activities.
The Department of
Health notes that their strategic plan supports Senate Bill 356 and notes the
following performance measures should be associated with this bill:
· The
number of youth trained for employment by age, race-ethnicity, gender, year in
school (or educational status) and at-risk status, and
· The
number of youth who get employment by hours per week and type of job.
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS