0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO EDUCATION; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CODE
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0003| PERTAINING TO STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN INTERSCHOLASTIC EXTRACURRICULAR
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0004| ACTIVITIES.
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0006| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0007|      Section 1.  Section 22-12-2.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1986, Chapter
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0008| 33, Section 27, as amended) is amended to read:
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0009|      "22-12-2.1.  INTERSCHOLASTIC EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES--STUDENT
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0010| PARTICIPATION.--
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0011|           A.  A student shall have a 2.0 grade point average on a 4.0
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0012| scale, or its equivalent, either cumulatively or for the grading
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0013| period immediately preceding participation, in order to be eligible to
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0014| participate in any interscholastic extracurricular activity.  For
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0015| purposes of this section, "grading period" is a period of time not
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0016| less than six weeks.  The provisions of this subsection shall not
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0017| apply to students receiving moderate to maximum special education
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0018| services.
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0019|           B.  No student shall be absent from school for
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0020| school-sponsored interscholastic extracurricular activities in excess
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0021| of fifteen days per semester, and no class may be missed in excess of
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0022| fifteen times per semester.
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0023|           C.  The provisions of Subsections A and B of this section
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0024| apply only to interscholastic extracurricular activities.
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0025|           D.  The state superintendent may issue a waiver relating to
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0001| the number of absences for participation in any state or national
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0002| competition.  The state superintendent shall develop a procedure for
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0003| petitioning cumulative provision eligibility cases, similar to other
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0004| eligibility situations.
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0005|           E.  Student standards for participation in
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0006| interscholastic extracurricular activities shall be applied
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0007| beginning with a student's academic record in grade nine."      
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