FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2021

 

March 3, 2021

 

 

 

Mr. Speaker:

 

    Your APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

 

HOUSE BILL 184, as amended

 

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

 

1. Strike House Education Committee Amendment 4.

 

     2. On pages 2 and 3, strike Subsections B and C in their entirety and insert in lieu thereof the following new subsections:

 

          "B. A school district, or charter school as applicable, may qualify for extended learning time program units if:

 

                (1) the public school's calendar provides at least the minimum required instructional day and instructional year specified in Section 22-2-8.1 NMSA 1978 or the number of instructional hours and instructional days provided in the 2018-2019 school year, whichever provides the greater number of total instructional hours for the school year, before the addition of extended learning time programs;

 

                2) the public school's calendar adds a minimum of ten additional instructional days for extended learning time programs or a minimum of fifty-five instructional hours for kindergarten through sixth grade and a minimum of sixty instructional hours for seventh through twelfth grade; 

                (3) the public school provides after-school programs for academic learning or extracurricular enrichment and those do not supplant federally funded programs;

 

                (4) the school district provides a minimum of eighty noninstructional hours per school year for professional development for school district instructional staff; and

 

                (5) the extended learning time program offered at a public school is implemented schoolwide and is considered an

extended school calendar for all students in that public school.

 

          C. A school district that was operating a four-day school week in fiscal year 2019 or a school district with fewer than one thousand MEM operating a four-day school week may qualify for extended learning time programs if:

 

                (1) the public school's calendar provides at least one hundred fifty instructional days in the instructional school year before the addition of extended learning time programs;

 

              (2) the public school's calendar adds a minimum of ten additional instructional days for extended learning time programs or a minimum of seven instructional hours per instructional day for kindergarten through sixth grade and at least seven and one-half instructional hours per instructional day for seventh through twelfth grade; and

 

                (3) the school district or public school meets other requirements of Subsection B of this section.".

 

     3. On page 5, line 12, after "if", insert "it provides the same number of instructional hours and instructional days as was provided in the 2018-2019 school year, prior to adding an equivalent number of instructional hours and".

    

                             Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

                                                                 

Patricia A. Lundstrom, Chair

 

 

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

 

Date

 

 

The roll call vote was 19 For 0 Against

Yes:      19

No:       0

Excused:  None

Absent:   None