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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
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, the
New Mexico school for the deaf and the New Mexico military
institute; SB 280
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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;
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; SB 280
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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.”