SENATE BILL 617

49th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2009

INTRODUCED BY

William E. Sharer

AN ACT

RELATING TO JOB TRAINING; REQUIRING THAT DEVELOPMENT TRAINING FUNDS BE USED FOR ENERGY EXPORTING INDUSTRIES; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. Section 21-19-13 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2005, Chapter 102, Section 3) is amended to read:

     "21-19-13. DISTRIBUTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT TRAINING FUNDS.--

          A. Of appropriations made in any fiscal year for development training, up to two-thirds shall be expended in urban communities in the state. At least one-third of the appropriations made in any fiscal year for development training shall be expended in nonurban communities.

          B. Of money available in the development training fund, the economic development department may use in any fiscal year:

                (1) up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to generally administer the development training program; and

                (2) in addition to the general administration funding allowed in Paragraph (1) of this subsection, up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to administer the provisions of Section 21-19-7.1 NMSA 1978.

          C. Up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) of development training funds may be used to reimburse film and multimedia production companies and to provide preemployment training for that industry pursuant to the provisions of Section 21-19-7.1 NMSA 1978.

          D. At least twenty-five percent of the money disbursed annually from the development training program shall be dedicated to development training in energy exporting industries.

          [D.] E. As used in this section:

                (1) "nonurban community" means a municipality that is not an urban community or is the unincorporated area of a county; and

                (2) "urban community" means a municipality with a population of forty thousand or more according to the most recent federal decennial census."

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