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

SPONSOR Trujillo

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/27/06

HB 141

SHORT TITLE UNM Law School Executive Training Program

SB

ANALYST Earp

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY06

FY07

$250.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Higher Education Department (HED)

State Personnel Office (SPO)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 141 appropriates $250,000 from the general fund to the Board of Regents of the Uni-

versity of New Mexico for the Institute of Public Law to:

•

Develop a pilot web-based training program for all executive branch employees

($200,000).

•

Develop a pilot training program for executive branch hearing officers and commission-

ers ($50,000).

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

House Bill 141 funds the creation of two pilot programs. Once the programs are created, they

will require additional funds for implementation and maintenance. Therefore, the appropriation

of $250,000 contained in this bill is shown as a recurring expense to the general fund. Any unex-

pended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall revert to the gen-

eral fund.

House Bill 141 – Page

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SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

This proposal was not included among the special program funding requests submitted by the

University of New Mexico to HED for review. Consequently, this proposal has not been in-

cluded in the HED funding recommendations for fiscal year 2007.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

Staff at the Institute for Public Law will be responsible for developing the content and interface

capabilities of the website for the on-line courses. Adequate support personnel will be required

to maintain the website and interact with the executive branch employees, hearing officers, and

commissioners who may utilize the programs.

The State Personnel Office (SPO) states that there may be opportunities for the agency to col-

laborate with the Institute for Public Law to develop and deliver training programs for state em-

ployees as a result of this pilot project.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

SPO states that this pilot project would benefit executive branch employees as a supplemental

training resource for information on Federal and state employment laws in the areas of sexual

harassment, Federal Labor Standards Act, Family Medical Leave Act, etc.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS

Following the development of the pilot project, is it intended that Institute of Public Law main-

tain and deliver the program to executive branch employees, or will this responsibility be shifted

to the State Personnel Office.

DKE/yr