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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Nava
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
3/06/2007
HB
SHORT TITLE Study Instructional Support Provider Salaries
SB SM 67
ANALYST Schuss
ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL OPERATING BUDGET IMPACT (dollars in thousands)
FY07
FY08
FY09 3 Year
Total Cost
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
Total Unknown Unknown
Unknown
Non-
Recurring General
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Memorial 67 recommends a study of costs of a three-tiered salary structure for
instructional support providers.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
There will be a cost to the general fund to conduct this study. The Department of Finance and
Administration, the Legislative Education Study Committee and the Public Education
Department are all requested to take part in this study.
SM 67 requests that the Cost-Study Working Committee be composed of appointees of each of
the departments; this implies a potential administrative cost.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
Senate Memorial 67 states that instructional support providers, including nurses, occupational
therapists, physical therapists, social workers and counselors, are essential to children’s learning
in New Mexico schools. New Mexico schools must recruit and retain qualified instructional
support staff to cope more adequately with the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act
of 2001. Most of the instructional support providers, including physical therapists, occupational
therapists, audiologists, diagnosticians, psychologists, social workers and speech and language
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pathologists, are included in the state public school funding formula. Nurses and counselors are
not included in the public school funding formula. Instructional support providers generate
revenue through the public school funding formula and Medicaid billing and teachers and other
staff are on a three-tiered salary structure.
The Senate of the State of New Mexico requests that the Department of Finance and
Administration, the Legislative Education Study Committee and the Public Education
Department be requested to study the cost of creating a three-tiered salary structure for all
instructional support providers and that during that cost-study process, those departments seeks
input from the various instructional support provider associations. The Cost-Study Working
Committee is requested to be composed of appointees of each of the departments and report to
the Legislative Education Study Committee and the Legislative Finance Committee by October
2007.
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