HOUSE BILL 138

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2020

INTRODUCED BY

Derrick J. Lente and D. Wonda Johnson and

Anthony Allison and Patricia Roybal Caballero

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR NEW MEXICO TRIBES, NATIONS AND PUEBLOS TO RESPOND TO THE CONSOLIDATED YAZZIE/MARTINEZ V. STATE OF NEW MEXICO LAWSUIT.

 

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

     SECTION 1. APPROPRIATIONS.--

          A. The following amounts are appropriated from the general fund to the Indian affairs department for expenditure in fiscal years 2021 and 2022 for the following purposes:

                (1) three million six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($3,650,000) for tribal departments of education to fully develop and implement education blueprints and governance structures to serve New Mexico's American Indian students, expended as follows:

                     (a) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for each pueblo and the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Mescalero Apache Tribe; and

                     (b) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico;

                (2) three million four hundred thousand dollars ($3,400,000) for tribal departments of education to develop early childhood culturally and linguistically relevant curriculum, to design culturally and linguistically relevant assessment tools and culturally appropriate teacher and program evaluation instruments, to conduct needs assessments of early childhood education facilities and to develop plans for constructing needed facilities, expended as follows:

                     (a) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for each pueblo and the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Mescalero Apache Tribe; and

                     (b) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico;

                (3) five million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($5,750,000) for tribal libraries to develop and staff culturally and linguistically relevant after-school and community-based summer school programs, expended as follows:

                     (a) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for each pueblo and the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Mescalero Apache Tribe; and

                     (b) five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico; and

                (4) three million four hundred thousand dollars ($3,400,000) to create, develop and staff information technology departments to increase support network operations and user access to high speed internet connections for tribal education departments and other tribal education entities, including language programs, schools and educational centers; and to create information technology and internships to grow tribal information technology workforces, expended as follows:

                     (a) one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for each pueblo and the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the Mescalero Apache Tribe; and

                     (b) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.

          B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2022 shall revert to the general fund.

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