0001| SENATE BILL 447
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0002| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003| 1996
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0004| INTRODUCED BY
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0005| JOSEPH J. CARRARO
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0011| AN ACT
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0012| AMENDING A SECTION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE ACT TO ALLOW
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0013| MONEY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION DISTRIBUTION TO BE
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0014| USED FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS.
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0016| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017| Section 1. Section 22-8-26 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967,
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0018| Chapter 16, Section 76, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019| "22-8-26. TRANSPORTATION DISTRIBUTION.--
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0020| A. Money in the transportation distribution of the
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0021| public school fund shall be used only for the purpose of making
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0022| payments to each school district for the to and from school
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0023| transportation costs of students in grades kindergarten through
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0024| twelve attending a public or an accredited private school
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0025| within the school district and of three- and four-year-old
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0001| children who meet the state board approved criteria and
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0002| definition of developmentally disabled and for transportation of
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0003| students to and from their regular attendance centers and the
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0004| place where vocational education programs are being offered.
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0005| B. In the event a school district's transportation
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0006| allocation exceeds the amount required to meet obligations to
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0007| provide to and from transportation, three- and four-year-old
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0008| developmentally disabled transportation and [vocation]
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0009| vocational education transportation, the district shall revert
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0010| remaining transportation funds to the transportation
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0011| distribution in the department.
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0012| C. In the event the sum of the proposed
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0013| transportation allocations to each school district exceeds the
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0014| amounts in the transportation distribution, the allocation to
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0015| each school district shall be reduced in the proportion that the
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0016| local school district allocation bears to the total statewide
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0017| transportation distribution.
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0018| D. Local school boards, with the approval of the
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0019| state transportation director, may provide additional
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0020| transportation services pursuant to Section 22-16-2 NMSA 1978 to
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0021| meet established program needs."
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0024| FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0025| SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0003| FEBRUARY 9, 1996
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0005| Mr. President:
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0007| Your COMMITTEES' COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0009| SENATE BILL 447
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0011| has had it under consideration and finds same to be GERMANE, PURSUANT
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0012| TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROVSIONS, and thence referred to the EDUCATION
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0013| COMMITTEE.
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0015| Respectfully submitted,
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0021| SENATOR MANNY M. ARAGON, Chairman
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0025| Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0001| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0004| Date ________________________
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