0001|                            HOUSE BILL 303
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           JAMES G. TAYLOR
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A PILOT PROJECT TO MONITOR PUBLIC
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0012|     SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  APPROPRIATION.--
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0016|               A.  One hundred seventy-five thousand dollars
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0017|     ($175,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0018|     attorney general's office for expenditure in fiscal year 1999
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0019|     to conduct a pilot project to monitor mandatory attendance in
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0020|     the public schools of the south region of the Albuquerque
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0021|     public school district.  Any unexpended or unencumbered
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0022|     balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert
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0023|     to the general fund.
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0024|               B.  The attorney general's office shall receive
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0025|     attendance reports from the public schools in the south region
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0001|     of the Albuquerque public school district and shall monitor
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0002|     attendance of the students.  The attorney general's office
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0003|     shall write the parent or guardian of each student with poor
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0004|     attendance, notifying the parent or guardian that the student
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0005|     may be at risk of failing or dropping out of school due to
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0006|     poor attendance and that the school is expecting the parent or
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0007|     guardian to make an appointment to discuss problems the
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0008|     student may be having.  The attorney general's office shall
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0009|     monitor the student, his family and the school to ensure that
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0010|     resources are being applied to minimize the student's risk of
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0011|     dropping out.
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0012|               C.  In conducting the pilot project, the attorney
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0013|     general shall work closely with the Albuquerque public
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0014|     schools, the children, youth and families department and the
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0015|     state department of public education.
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