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SENATE BILL 24
57TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 2025
INTRODUCED BY
Michael Padilla
AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS; REQUIRING CONTRIBUTIONS TO APPRENTICE
AND TRAINING PROGRAMS OR TO THE PUBLIC WORKS APPRENTICE AND
TRAINING FUND FOR ALL PUBLIC WORKS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 13-4D-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1992,
Chapter 74, Section 4, as amended) is amended to read:
"13-4D-4. ADMINISTRATION.--
A. The Public Works Apprentice and Training Act
shall be administered by the workforce solutions department.
The department shall collect employers' contributions in
accordance with that act, review employers' compliance
statements, review certified payroll reports to verify training
contributions, investigate allegations of and impose penalties
for employer noncompliance and disburse funds as provided in
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Section 13-4D-5 NMSA 1978.
B. Public works construction projects [except for
street, highway, bridge, road, utility or maintenance contracts
with employers who elect not to participate in training ] shall
not be constructed unless an employer agrees to make
contributions to approved apprentice and training programs in
New Mexico in which the employer is a participant or to the
public works apprentice and training fund administered by the
workforce solutions department. Contributions shall be made in
the same manner and in the same amount as apprentice and
training contributions required pursuant to wage rate
determinations made by the department.
C. The workforce solutions department shall adopt
rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of
the Public Works Apprentice and Training Act."
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