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

SPONSOR Cisneros

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

02/17/07

HB

SHORT TITLE Age Appropriate Health Education Programs

SB 1012

ANALYST Geisler

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$50.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to: SB 124, SB 280, SM 14

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Health (DOH)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 1012 would appropriate $50,000 from the general fund to the Department of Health

(DOH) for expenditure in Fiscal Year 2008 to contract with a nonprofit organization to provide

age appropriate evidence-based reproductive health education programs that foster responsible

male sexual behavior. Any unexpended balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall revert to the

general fund.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

DOH notes that both the Executive and Legislative recommendations contain continued base

funding for the South Valley Male Involvement Project which is supported by a combination of

federal and state general funds. There was no expansion request to support this initiative.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

When births are registered for young teens in NM, most do not have a father declared. Fathers

are included on the birth certificate if parents are married or when the father signs an

“Acknowledgement of Paternity". More than 8 out of 10 teen births are to unmarried mothers.

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The DOH funds various evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention education programs,

including male involvement with the South Valley Male Involvement Project (SVMIP), to

reduce New Mexico’s high teen birth rate. The goals of the SVMIP are to: 1) Improve

educational and clinical services for men of all ages in Albuquerque’s South Valley; 2) Reduce

risk behaviors that lead to unintended pregnancy, HIV and STDs; and 3) Decrease the prevalence

of violence, pregnancy and STDs among teens 15-19 in the South Valley. In 2006, the SVMIP

provided educational sessions to 3,877 unduplicated individuals and provided outreach to a total

of 5,748.

Teen pregnancy prevention efforts that target males are needed and can be effective to continue

reducing teen birth rates. Programs that reach beyond the classroom to include community

service and other out-of-school activities and that also include a cultural component have had

consistently positive outcomes among boys. (It’s a Guy Thing: Boys, Young Men, and Teen

Pregnancy Prevention, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy 2006).

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

SB 1012 relates to the following bills:

SB 124, which would appropriate $2,600,000 from State General Fund to the DOH to develop

and implement a statewide teen pregnancy prevention program;

SB 280, which would appropriate to the DOH $701,000 for purposes specified: including thirty-

two thousand dollars ($32,000) for the South Valley Male Involvement Project (SVMIP); and,

SM 14, which encourages young men to be active in their communities and families, and

commends a project in Albuquerque's South Valley for its successes in encouraging young men

to become active.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

DOH notes that analysis of the 2005 High School Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (YRRS)

reveals that Hispanic male students are 1.6 times more likely to be currently sexually active than

non-Hispanic male students (27% of non-Hispanic males say they are currently sexually active

vs. 37% of Hispanic male students, Scharmen T.).

While birth rates for White teens in NM decreased by 28.2% from 2000 to 2004, there was little

change in birth rates for Hispanic and American Indian teens. The birth rate among Hispanic

females has declined less than the rate for all races both in NM and in the United States.

Hispanic females comprise 46% of the female population aged 15-17 but nearly 71% of the

births in that age group. In 2004, the birth rate for Hispanic teens ages 15-17 was 55.8 (per

thousand females ages 15-17), which is nearly 4 times higher than the rate to White teens (14.0).

In addition, the American Indian teen birth rate was 35.2, which is 2 1/2 times higher than White

teens rate (NM DOH/FPP Teen Pregnancy Fact Sheet, 2007).

In 2004, 84.5% of births to teens ages 15-19 were to single mothers. For all births to single NM

mothers of all ages from 2000-2004, a higher proportion (21.7%) of Hispanic babies were born

without “Acknowledgement of Paternity" as compared to non-Hispanic babies (18.9%)

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(Analysis of the NMDOH Vital Records and Health Statistics birth data by Scharmen T &

Hendrickson E).

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