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SENATE BILL 280
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Candy Spence Ezzell and James G. Townsend and Jay C. Block
and Larry R. Scott and Joshua N. Hernandez
AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS; ADDING THE NEW
MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY
ACT AS ONE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SPECIAL SCHOOLS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 22-24-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1975,
Chapter 235, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:
"22-24-3. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Public School
Capital Outlay Act:
A. "authority" means the public school facilities
authority;
B. "building system" means a set of interacting
parts that makes up a single, nonportable or fixed component of
a facility and that, together with other building systems,
makes up an entire integrated facility or property, including
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roofing, electrical distribution, electronic communication,
plumbing, lighting, mechanical, fire prevention, facility
shell, interior finishes, heating, ventilation and air
conditioning systems and school security systems, as defined by
the council;
C. "constitutional special schools" means the New
Mexico school for the blind and visually impaired, [and ] the
New Mexico school for the deaf and the New Mexico military
institute;
D. "constitutional special schools support spaces"
means all facilities necessary to support the constitutional
special schools' educational mission that are not included in
the constitutional special schools' educational adequacy
standards, including performing arts centers, facilities for
athletic competition, school district administration and
facility and vehicle maintenance;
E. "council" means the public school capital outlay
council;
F. "education technology infrastructure" means the
physical hardware and services used to interconnect students,
teachers, school districts and school buildings necessary to
support broadband connectivity and remote learning as
determined by the council;
G. "fund" means the public school capital outlay
fund;
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H. "maximum allowable gross square foot per
student" means a determination made by applying the established
maximum allowable square foot guidelines for educational
facilities based on type of school and number of students in
the current published New Mexico public school adequacy
planning guide to the department's current year certified first
reporting date membership;
I. "replacement cost per square foot" means the
statewide cost per square foot as established by the council;
J. "school district" includes state-chartered
charter schools and the constitutional special schools;
K. "school district population density" means the
population density on a per square mile basis of a school
district as estimated by the authority based on the most
current tract level population estimates published by the
United States census bureau; and
L. "school district population density factor"
means zero when the school district population density is
greater than fifty people per square mile, six-hundredths when
the school district population density is greater than fifteen
but less than fifty-one persons per square mile and twelve-
hundredths when the school district population density is less
than sixteen persons per square mile."
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