HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL 332

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2018

AN ACT

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE; REQUIRING PARENTAL NOTIFICATION BY TEXT FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL EVENTS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. A new section of the Public School Code is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] PARENTAL NOTIFICATIONS.--Each high school shall notify by text message a parent of a student of the following events unless the parent has requested on the student's enrollment form or otherwise that the parent not be notified that:

          A. a state-, school-district- or charter-school-required assessment will be administered in not less than two days; and

          B. the student's cumulative grade point average has fallen below 2.0 on a 4.0 scale or seventy percent on a one hundred percent scale."

     SECTION 2. APPLICABILITY.--The provisions of this act shall apply beginning in the 2019-2020 school year and in subsequent school years.

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