New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico House Bill HB297 Compare Versions

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28	28	HOUSE BILL 297
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30	30	TH LEGISLATURE
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45	45	2025
46	46	INTRODUCED BY
47	47	Anita Gonzales and Debra M. Sariñana and Tanya Mirabal Moya
48	48	AN ACT
49	49	RELATING TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL; PROVIDING FOR LICENSURE
50	50	ENDORSEMENT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR ALL GRADES.
51	51	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
52	52	SECTION 1. Section 22-10A-6 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1986,
53	53	Chapter 33, Section 8, as amended) is amended to read:
54	54	"22-10A-6. EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSURE.--
55	55	A. The department shall require a person seeking
56	56	licensure or reciprocity in elementary, special, early
57	57	childhood or secondary education to have completed the
58	58	following minimum requirements in the college of arts and
59	59	sciences:
60	60	(1) nine semester hours in communication;
61	61	(2) six semester hours in mathematics;
62	62	(3) eight semester hours in laboratory
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90	90	science;
91	91	(4) nine semester hours in social and
92	92	behavioral science; and
93	93	(5) nine semester hours in humanities and fine
94	94	arts.
95	95	B. In addition to the requirements specified in
96	96	Subsections A and C of this section, the department shall
97	97	require that a person seeking standard or alternative
98	98	elementary licensure shall have completed six hours of reading
99	99	courses, and a person seeking standard or alternative secondary
100	100	licensure shall have completed three hours of reading courses
101	101	in subject matter content. The department shall establish
102	102	requirements that provide a reasonable period of time to comply
103	103	with the provisions of this subsection.
104	104	C. Except for licensure by reciprocity, the
105	105	department shall require, prior to initial licensure, no less
106	106	than sixteen weeks of student teaching, a portion of which
107	107	shall occur in the first thirty credit hours taken in the
108	108	college of education and shall be under the direct supervision
109	109	of a teacher and a portion of which shall occur in the
110	110	student's senior year with the student teacher being directly
111	111	responsible for the classroom.
112	112	D. Nothing in this section shall preclude the
113	113	department from establishing or accepting equivalent
114	114	requirements for purposes of reciprocal licensure or minimum
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143	143	requirements for alternative licensure.
144	144	E. Vocational teacher preparatory programs may be
145	145	exempt from Subsections A through C of this section upon a
146	146	determination by the department that other licensure
147	147	requirements are more appropriate for vocational teacher
148	148	preparatory programs.
149	149	F. [Before December 31, 2021, the department shall
150	150	create a license endorsement in secondary computer science
151	151	available to all teachers who hold a ] Teachers seeking to add
152	152	an endorsement for computer science on a valid license [and]
153	153	shall demonstrate sufficient content knowledge in computer
154	154	science [as determined by the department ]. The department
155	155	shall consult with computer science education experts with
156	156	experience in creating or supporting computer science
157	157	endorsement pathways when developing computer science
158	158	endorsement requirements. The endorsement requires the teacher
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160	160	(1) earned fifteen post-secondary course
161	161	credits in computer science;
162	162	(2) passed the department-approved teacher
163	163	licensure examination for computer science;
164	164	(3) a minimum of two years of work experience
165	165	in an industry related to computer science, which the applicant
166	166	must validate using a verifiable list of references;
167	167	(4) an industry certification in a field
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196	196	related to computer science, which the applicant must validate
197	197	using official documentation of the industry certification;
198	198	(5) completed sixty hours of professional
199	199	development within the three years immediately prior to
200	200	applying for a computer science endorsement, which the
201	201	applicant must validate using documentation from the
202	202	organization that provided the professional development,
203	203	including the number of hours of each training; or
204	204	(6) three or more years of computer science
205	205	teaching experience, including computer coding program
206	206	structure in one or more languages, debugging computer
207	207	programs, computer modeling and skills relevant to applications
208	208	such as data management, graphics and text processing, which
209	209	the applicant must validate with a letter signed by a school
210	210	district administrator, charter school administrator or school
211	211	principal."
212	212	SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred fifty thousand
213	213	dollars ($250,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
214	214	public education department for expenditure in fiscal years
215	215	2026 and 2027 for professional development for teachers who
216	216	want a computer science endorsement or want to maintain the
217	217	endorsement. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining
218	218	at the end of fiscal year 2027 shall revert to the general
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