0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1065
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                         W. C. "DUB" WILLIAMS
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS; AMENDING SECTION 22-1-2 NMSA 1978
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0012|     (BEING LAWS 1967, CHAPTER 16, SECTION 2, AS AMENDED).
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0013|     
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  Section 22-1-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967,
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0016|     Chapter 16, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read:
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0017|          "22-1-2.  DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Public School Code:
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0018|               A.  "state board" means the state board of
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0019|     education;
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0020|               B.  "state superintendent" means the superintendent
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0021|     of public instruction;
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0022|               C.  "department of education" means the state
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0023|     department of public education;
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0024|               D.  "certified school instructor" means any person
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0025|     holding a valid certificate authorizing the person to teach,
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0001|     supervise an instructional program, counsel or provide special
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0002|     instructional services in the public schools of the state;
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0003|               E.  "certified school administrator" means any
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0004|     person holding a valid certificate authorizing the person to
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0005|     administer in the public schools of the state;
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0006|               F.  "certified school employee" or "certified school
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0007|     personnel" means any employee who is either a certified school
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0008|     instructor or a certified school administrator or both;
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0009|               G.  "non-certified school employee" means any
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0010|     employee who is not a certified school employee;
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0011|               H.  "certificate" means a certificate issued by the
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0012|     state board authorizing a person to teach, supervise an
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0013|     instructional program, counsel, provide special instructional
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0014|     services or administer in the public schools of the state;
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0015|               I.  "chief" or "director" means the state
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0016|     superintendent or his designee unless the context clearly
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0017|     indicates otherwise;
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0018|               J.  "private school" means a school, <u>including pre-
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<u></u>0019| <u>    schools for under-school-age persons but excluding daycare
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<u></u>0020| <u>    facilities</u>, offering on-site programs of instruction not under
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0021|     the control, supervision or management of a local school board,
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0022|     exclusive of home instruction offered by the parent, guardian
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0023|     or one having custody of the student;
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0024|               K.  "school district" means an area of land
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0025|     established as a political subdivision of the state for the
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0001|     administration of public schools and segregated geographically
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0002|     for taxation and bonding purposes;
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0003|               L.  "local school board" means the governing body of
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0004|     a school district;
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0005|               M.  "public school" means that part of a school
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0006|     district that is a single attendance center where instruction
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0007|     is offered by a certified school instructor or a group of
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0008|     certified school instructors and is discernible as a building
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0009|     or group of buildings generally recognized as either an
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0010|     elementary, secondary, junior high or high school or any
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0011|     combination thereof;
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0012|               N.  "school year" means the total number of teaching
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0013|     days offered by public schools in a school district during a
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0014|     period of twelve consecutive months;
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0015|               O.  "consolidation" means the combination of part or
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0016|     all of the geographical area of an existing school district
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0017|     with part or all of the geographical area of one or more
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0018|     contiguous existing school districts;
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0019|               P.  "consolidated school district" means a school
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0020|     district created by order of the state board by combining part
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0021|     or all of the geographical area of an existing school district
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0022|     with part or all of the geographical area of one or more
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0023|     contiguous existing school districts;
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0024|               Q.  "state institution" means the New Mexico
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0025|     military institute, the New Mexico school for the visually
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0001|     handicapped, the New Mexico school for the deaf, the New Mexico
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0002|     boys' school, the New Mexico youth diagnostic and development
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0003|     center, the Los Lunas medical center, the Fort Stanton
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0004|     hospital, the Las Vegas medical center or the Carrie Tingley
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0005|     crippled children's hospital;
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0006|               R.  "state educational institution" means an
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0007|     institution enumerated in Article 12, Section 11 of the
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0008|     constitution of New Mexico;
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0009|               S.  "forty-day report" means the report of qualified
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0010|     student membership of each school district and of those
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0011|     eligible to be qualified students but enrolled in a private
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0012|     school or a home school for the first forty days of school;
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0013|               T.  "school" means any supervised program of
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0014|     instruction designed to educate a person in a particular place,
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0015|     manner and subject area;
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0016|               U.  "school-age person" means any person who is at
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0017|     least five years of age prior to 12:01 a.m. on September 1 of
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0018|     the school year and who has not received a high school diploma
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0019|     or its equivalent.  A maximum age of twenty-one shall be used
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0020|     for persons who are classified as special education membership
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0021|     as defined in Section 22-8-2 NMSA 1978 or as residents of state
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0022|     institutions;
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0023|               V.  "home school" means the operation by a parent,
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0024|     guardian or other person having custody of a school-age person
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0025|     who instructs a home study program that provides a basic
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0001|     academic educational program, including but not limited to
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0002|     reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies and
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0003|     science; and
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0004|               W.  "school building" means a public school, an
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0005|     administration building and related school structure or
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0006|     facilities, including teacher housing, as may be owned,
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0007|     acquired or constructed by the local school board and as
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0008|     necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the local
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0009|     school board."
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0011|                            State of New Mexico
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0012|                      House of Representatives
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0014|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0015|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0018|                                                  March 19, 1997
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0021|   Mr. Speaker:
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0022|   
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0023|        Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0024|   
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0025|                       HOUSE BILL 1065
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0002|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0003|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0005|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0011| <u>                                </u>                             Samuel F. Vigil, Chairman
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0016|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0018|                        Date <u>            </u>
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0020|   The roll call vote was<u> 9 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0021|   Yes:      9
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0022|             Excused:  Miera, Nicely, S.M. Williams, Wright
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0023|             Absent:   None
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