HOUSE BILL 223

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2025

INTRODUCED BY

Yanira Gurrola and Angelita Mejia and Rebecca Dow

and Tanya Mirabal Moya

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE; INCREASING THE COST DIFFERENTIAL FACTOR USED TO CALCULATE BILINGUAL MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION PROGRAM UNITS; INCREASING THE COST DIFFERENTIAL FACTOR BY 0.1 EACH YEAR FOR FIVE YEARS.

 

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

     SECTION 1. Section 22-8-22 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1974, Chapter 8, Section 13, as amended) is amended to read:

     "22-8-22. BILINGUAL MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION PROGRAM UNITS.--The number of bilingual multicultural education program units is determined by multiplying the full-time-equivalent MEM in programs implemented in accordance with the provisions of the Bilingual Multicultural Education Act by the cost differential factor. [0.35, effective July 1, 1990; 0.4, effective July 1, 1991; .425, effective July 1, 1992; 0.45, effective July 1, 1993; and 0.5, effective July 1, 1994] The cost differential factor shall be:

          A. 0.6, effective July 1, 2025;

          B. 0.7, effective July 1, 2026;

          C. 0.8, effective July 1, 2027;

          D. 0.9, effective July 1, 2028; and

          E. 1.0, effective July 1, 2029 and subsequent years."

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