0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS; DELAYING THE MANDATORY EMPLOYMENT OF SCHOOL
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0003| NURSES UNTIL JULY 1, 1997.
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0005| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0006|      Section 1.  Section 22-8-9 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967, Chapter 16,
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0007| Section 63, as amended by Laws 1993, Chapter 226, Section 19) is amended
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0008| to read:
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0009|      "22-8-9.  BUDGETS--MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.--
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0010|           A.  No budget for a school district shall be approved by the
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0011| department that does not provide for:
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0012|                (1)  a school year consisting of at least one hundred
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0013| eighty full instructional days or the equivalent thereof, exclusive of
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0014| any release time for in-service training; or
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0015|                (2)  a variable school year consisting of a minimum
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0016| number of instructional hours established by the state board; and
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0017|                (3)  a pupil-teacher ratio or class or teaching load as
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0018| provided in Section 22-2-8.2 NMSA 1978; and
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0019|                (4)  effective July 1, 1997, a full-time, department-certified nurse for each fifty-five teachers employed by a school
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0020| district or the equivalent part-time, department-certified nurse for
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0021| less than fifty-five teachers.
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0022|           B.  The state board shall, by regulation, establish the
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0023| requirements for a teaching day, the standards for an instructional hour
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0024| and the standards for a full-time certified classroom instructor and for
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0025| the equivalent thereof.
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0001|           C.  The local school board shall submit a plan for the
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0002| implementation of an alternate school year to the state superintendent
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0003| for his approval.
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0004|           D.  The provisions of Subsection C and Paragraph (2) of
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0005| Subsection A of this section shall be construed to apply only to school
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0006| districts with a MEM of one thousand or fewer."
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0007|      Section 2.  REPEAL.--That version of Section 22-8-9 NMSA 1978
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0008| (being Laws 1967, Chapter 16, Section 63, as amended) that is to become
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0009| effective July 1, 1995 pursuant to Laws 1993, Chapter 223, Section 1 is
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0010| repealed.
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0011|      Section 3.  REPEAL.--That version of Section 22-8-9 NMSA 1978
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0012| (being Laws 1967, Chapter 16, Section 63, as amended) that is to become
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0013| effective July 1, 1996 pursuant to Laws 1994, Chapter 68, Section 1, as
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0014| amended by Laws 1995, Chapter 151, Section 1, is repealed.               
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