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

SPONSOR Nunez

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/12/2007

HB 618

SHORT TITLE Statewide Modern Dance Awareness Program

SB

ANALYST Dearing

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$250.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

House Bill 618 Duplicates Senate Bill 669

House Bill 618 Relates to House Bill 573, and appropriations in the General Appropriations Act.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Cultural Affairs Department (CAD)

Public Education Department (PED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 618 appropriates $250 thousand from the general fund to department of Cultural Af-

fairs to contract with a modern dance repertory company with experience in production for junior

high and high schools youth for a statewide modern dance awareness program.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $250 thousand contained in House Bill 618 is a recurring expense to the

General Fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall

revert to the General Fund.

House Bill 618 – Page

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SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

According to the Public Education department, the enactment of House Bill 618 could affect as

many as two-thirds of the States’ children in these age groups.

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

The enactment of House Bill 681 could increase the results in the department’s measures track-

ing outreach and educational efforts.

According to the Public Education department,

“The New Mexico Content Standards for the Arts and New Mexico Health and Physical Educa-

tion Standards make a foundation for this learning along with other Content Standards through:

•

Demonstration of an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.

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Observation, discussion, analysis and making critical judgments about artistic works.

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Increased awareness of diverse peoples through dance and movement.

•

Knowledge about how invention and innovation have historically influenced artists and

offered them new possibilities for expression.

•

Connections and parallels among the arts, health and physical education disciplines, as

well as all other content areas, Science, Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, Modern,

Classical and Native Languages and Career Technology.

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Contributions to local and international communities by sharing learning experiences in

dance, movement, music, theater/drama and visual arts and by participating in cultural

activities in their community."

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

The Cultural Affairs Department would be required issue a request for proposal (RFP) to con-

tract for the program in House Bill 618.

DUPLICATION, RELATIONSHIP

House Bill 618 relates to appropriations in the General Appropriations Act; the arts services

grants/contracts that the New Mexico Arts Division gives out to arts organizations statewide.

The New Mexico Arts program general fund recommendation was $1.6 million for FY08.

House Bill 618 duplicates SB 669

House Bill 618 relates to HB 573. House Bill 573 appropriates one million two hundred thou-

sand ($1,200,000) from the general fund to Children, Youth and Families Department for expen-

diture in FY08 to contract with a nonprofit professional modern dance repertory company to

provide an on-site and off-site statewide urban and rural dance program for sentenced and post-

release rehabilitation sustainability for at-risk and in-system juveniles.

PD/sb