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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Campos

DATE TYPED 2-18-05

HB

SHORT TITLE NM Highlands Hispanic Family Development

SB 632

ANALYST Woods

APPROPRIATION

Appropriation Contained Estimated Additional Impact Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY05

FY06

FY05

FY06

$500.0

Recurring General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to the appropriation for New Mexico Highlands University in the General Appropriations

Act.

Duplicates HB757

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

New Mexico Commission on Higher Education (CHE) (HB757)

New Mexico Public Education Department (PED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 632 – Making an Appropriation for a National Hispanic Child and Family Develop-

ment Institute at New Mexico Highlands University – appropriates $500,000 from the general

fund to the Board of Regents of New Mexico Highlands University for expenditure in FY06 for a

training and resource institute for Hispanic child and family development. Any unexpended or

unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY06 shall revert to the general fund.

Significant Issues

PED indicates that the Institute for Hispanic Children and Family Development is a national

training institute. Its goal is to create an effective national voice and resource center to support

the needs of Hispanic and other minority families by sharing best practices, program models and

expertise with community organizations that serve Hispanic children and families. PED notes

that the institute will:

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create a national training and resource institute facility;

•

support and partner with the efforts of existing national initiatives;

•

develop materials and programs that promote best practices models that concen-

trate on promoting positive development and higher education completion;

•

generate and centralize revenue that will support and sustain youth development

efforts; and

•

establish communication linkages that will facilitate ongoing assessment and

evaluation.

CHE indicates that this request was not in the list of priority projects submitted by New Mexico

Highlands University to CHE for review. Accordingly, the request was not included in the

commission’s funding recommendations for FY06.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $500,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY06 shall revert to the gen-

eral fund.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

New Mexico Highlands University will retain oversight of this appropriation.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

Relates to the appropriation for New Mexico Highlands University in the General Appropriations

Act.

Duplicates HB757 in that HB757 also seeks to appropriate $500,000 from the general fund to the

Board of Regents of New Mexico Highlands University for expenditure in FY06 for a training

and resource institute for Hispanic child and family development.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

CHE suggests that – assuming funding will continue beyond FY06 – consideration might be

given to adding language to require New Mexico Highlands University to submit a plan for pro-

gram evaluation, including specific program goals and criteria for assessing program effective-

ness to the Legislative Finance Committee and the Commission on Higher Education by October

1, 2005. Further, that the institution shall also submit a program evaluation to the Legislative

Finance Committee and CHE by June 30, 2008 detailing the benefits to the State of New Mexico

from having this program implemented for a three-year period.

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