45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2002
AN ACT
RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT TRAINING; CHANGING THE SIZE OF A PROJECT LOCATED WITHIN FIFTY MILES OF THE NEW MEXICO BORDER THAT WOULD QUALIFY FOR AN EXCEPTION TO THE IN-PLANT TRAINING RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. Section 21-19-7 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1983, Chapter 299, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
"21-19-7. DEVELOPMENT TRAINING.--
A. The economic development department shall
establish a development training program that provides quick-response classroom and in-plant training to furnish qualified
manpower resources for new or expanding industries and non-retail service sector businesses in New Mexico that have
business or production procedures that require skills unique
to those industries. Training shall be custom designed for,
[the particular company] and [shall be] based on the special
requirements of, each company. The program shall be operated
on a statewide basis and shall be designed to assist any area
in becoming more competitive economically.
B. There is created the "industrial training board", composed of:
(1) the director of the economic development division of the economic development department;
(2) the director of the vocational education division of the state department of public education;
(3) the director of the job training division of the labor department;
(4) the executive director of the commission on higher education;
(5) one member from organized labor appointed by the governor; and
(6) one public member from the business community appointed by the governor.
C. The industrial training board shall establish
policies and promulgate rules [and regulations] for the
administration of appropriated funds and shall provide review
and oversight to assure that funds expended from the
development training fund will generate business activity and
give measurable growth to the economic base of New Mexico
within the legal limits preserving the ecological state of New
Mexico and its people.
D. Subject to the approval of the industrial training board, the economic development division of the economic development department shall:
(1) administer all funds allocated or appropriated for industrial development training purposes;
(2) provide designated training services;
(3) regulate, control and abandon any training program established under the provisions of this section;
(4) assist companies requesting training in the development of a training proposal to meet the companies' manpower needs;
(5) contract for the implementation of all training programs;
(6) provide for training by educational
institutions or by [the] a company through in-plant training,
at [the] that company's request; and
(7) evaluate training efforts on a basis of performance standards set forth by the industrial training board.
E. The vocational education division of the state
department of public education shall provide technical
assistance to the economic development department concerning
the development of agreements, the determination of the most
appropriate instructional training to [provide] be provided
and the review of training program implementation.
F. The state shall contract with a company or an educational institution to provide training or instructional services in accordance with the approved training proposal and within the following limitations:
(1) no payment shall be made for training in excess of one thousand forty hours of training per trainee for the total duration of training;
(2) training applicants shall have resided within the state for a minimum of one year immediately prior to the commencement of the training program and be of legal status for employment; provided, however, that prior to July 1, 2004 the residency requirements may be waived in part for projects within New Mexico communities located within fifty miles of the state border if the project meets the following criteria:
(a) the project will employ more than
[one thousand five hundred] one hundred fifty employees;
(b) the resident labor force within a fifty-mile radius of the project location is not sufficient to fill the full-time-equivalent position requirements of the project as determined by the labor department;
(c) preference for training shall be given to New Mexico residents; and
(d) no less than fifty percent of the project's work force shall be residents of New Mexico;
(3) payment for institutional classroom
training shall be made [under] pursuant to any accepted
training contract for a qualified training program;
(4) no payment shall be made [under] pursuant
to any accepted training contract for rental of facilities
unless facilities are not available on site or at the
educational institution;
(5) all applicants shall be eligible under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, and shall not have terminated a public school program within the past three months except by graduation;
(6) trainees shall be guaranteed full-time employment with the contracted company upon successful completion of the training;
(7) persons employed to provide the instructional services shall be exempt from the minimum requirements established in the state plan for other state vocational programs; and
(8) no payment shall be made for training programs or production of Indian jewelry or imitation Indian jewelry unless a majority of those involved in the training program or production are of Indian descent."