New Mexico SB 626: COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES ED CENTER

Bill Text

SB0626 

SENATE BILL 626

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2019

INTRODUCED BY

Linda M. Lopez

AN ACT

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION; CREATING THE EXTENSION FOR 
COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES FOR EDUCATION CENTER IN THE 
HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP EXPERTISE 
AMONG KINDERGARTEN THROUGH TWELFTH GRADE TEACHERS IN NEW 
MEXICO; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

 SECTION 1. Section 9-25-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2005, 
Chapter 289, Section 1) is amended to read:

 "9-25-1. SHORT TITLE.--[Sections 1 through 13 of this 
act] Chapter 9, Article 25 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the 
"Higher Education Department Act"." 

 SECTION 2. A new section of the Higher Education 
Department Act is enacted to read: 

 "[NEW MATERIAL] EXTENSION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE 
OUTCOMES FOR EDUCATION CENTER--CREATED.--

 A. The "extension for community healthcare outcomes 
for education center" is created in the department.

 B. The extension for community healthcare outcomes 
for education center shall develop the expertise of education 
practitioners in New Mexico in college and career readiness, 
English language learning, special education, multicultural 
education and students in poverty. The center shall provide 
effective, sustainable and innovative professional learning for 
kindergarten through twelfth grade educators starting in the 
first semester of the 2019-2020 school year.

 C. The extension for community healthcare outcomes 
for education center shall build virtual learning communities 
in college and career readiness, English language learning, 
special education, multicultural education and students in 
poverty. The communities shall be designed to connect remote, 
isolated education practitioners and teacher leaders to 
collaborative, focused, timely and relevant professional 
learning. Each community shall offer several experts providing 
workshops in the most effective, practical and innovative 
knowledge pertinent to that community and tools to build each 
education practitioner's expertise."

 SECTION 3. APPROPRIATION.--Seven hundred fifty thousand 
dollars ($750,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the 
higher education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2020 
to fund the extension for community healthcare outcomes for 
education center. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance 
remaining at the end of fiscal year 2020 shall revert to the 
general fund.

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