0001|                           SENATE BILL 365
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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|                             CYNTHIA NAVA
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO EDUCATION; PROVIDING FUNDING TO CREATE A STATEWIDE
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0012|     TEEN PARENTING AND ABSTINENCE EDUCATION PROGRAM; CREATING A
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0013|     FUND; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  [<u>NEW MATERIAL</u>] TEEN DEVELOPMENT FUND
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0017|     CREATED--PURPOSE.--
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0018|               A.  The "teen development fund" is created in the
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0019|     state treasury and shall be administered by the state
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0020|     department of public education.  Money in the fund shall be
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0021|     available for appropriation by the legislature to expand the
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0022|     existing GRADS program to a statewide program for teenagers
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0023|     that includes a wide range of education and services for teen
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0024|     parents and their children and abstinence education for early
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0025|     teens.  Balances in the fund at the end of any fiscal year
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0001|     shall not revert.
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0002|               B.  The program shall include provision of child
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0003|     care for high school students with children and programs;
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0004|     classes in basic parenting, nutrition and hygiene skills for
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0005|     high school boys and girls who are parents; and an opportunity
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0006|     for obtaining certification as a child care provider and
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0007|     participating in a concurrent enrollment program of post-
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0008|     secondary child development courses.  The program may also
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0009|     develop and implement an abstinence education component for
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0010|     mid-school and junior high students in coordination with any
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0011|     program established for use of the state's block grant
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0012|     allotment of federal funds for an abstinence education program
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0013|     pursuant to 42 USCA Section 710.
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0014|               C.  The state department of public education may
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0015|     contract with other state and local agencies and organizations
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0016|     as necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
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0017|          Section 2.  Section 7-1-6.38 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1994,
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0018|     Chapter 145, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "7-1-6.38.  DISTRIBUTION--GOVERNMENTAL GROSS RECEIPTS
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0020|     TAX.--
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0021|               A.  A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA
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0022|     1978 shall be made to the public project revolving fund
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0023|     administered by the New Mexico finance authority in an amount
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0024|     equal to seventy-five percent of the net receipts attributable
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0025|     to the governmental gross receipts tax.
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0001|               B.  A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA
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0002|     1978 shall be made <s>[to the energy, minerals and natural
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<s></s>0003| <s>    resources department]</s> in an amount equal to twenty-five
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0004|     percent of the net receipts attributable to the governmental
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0005|     gross receipts tax <u>in the following amounts as follows</u>. 
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0006|     Forty percent of the distribution is appropriated to the
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0007|     <s>[energy, minerals and natural resources department to
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<s></s>0008| <s>    implement the provisions of the New Mexico Youth Conservation
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<s></s>0009| <s>    Corps Act]</s> <u>teen development fund</u> and sixty percent of the
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0010|     distribution is appropriated to the energy, minerals and
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0011|     natural resources department for state park and recreation
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0012|     area capital improvements, including the costs of planning,
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0013|     engineering, design, construction, renovation, repair,
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0014|     equipment and furnishings.
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0015|               C.  The state pledges to and agrees with the
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0016|     holders of any bonds or notes issued by the New Mexico finance
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0017|     authority or by the energy, minerals and natural resources
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0018|     department and payable from the net receipts attributable to
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0019|     the governmental gross receipts tax distributed to the New
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0020|     Mexico finance authority or the energy, minerals and natural
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0021|     resources department pursuant to this section that the state
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0022|     will not limit, reduce or alter the distribution of the net
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0023|     receipts attributable to the governmental gross receipts tax
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0024|     to the New Mexico finance authority or the energy, minerals
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0025|     and natural resources department or limit, reduce or alter the
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0001|     rate of imposition of the governmental gross receipts tax
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0002|     until the bonds or notes together with the interest thereon
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0003|     are fully met and discharged.  The New Mexico finance
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0004|     authority and the energy, minerals and natural resources
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0005|     department are authorized to include this pledge and agreement
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0006|     of the state in any agreement with the holders of the bonds or
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0007|     notes."
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0008|          Section 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0009|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1998.
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