SB 280 — NMMI IN CAPITAL OUTLAY ACT

SENATEAN BILLACT 280RELATING 57THTO LEGISLATUREPUBLIC -STATEOFNEWMEXICO-SCHOOL FIRSTCAPITAL SESSION,IMPROVEMENTS; 2025 INTRODUCED BY Candy Spence Ezzell and James G.

Townsend and Jay C.

Block and Larry R.

Scott and Joshua A.

Sanchez 7 9 AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS;

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

Section 22-24-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1975, e t 17 Chapter 235, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:

w l n d 18 "22-24-3.

DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Public School = = 19 a l Capital Outlay Act:

i a e r 20 A.

"authority" means the public school facilities a t m m 21 authority;

d r e 22 B.

"building system" means a set of interacting c e s k 23 parts that makes up a single, nonportable or fixed component of e a n b 24 a facility and that, together with other building systems, u [ makes up an entire integrated facility or property, including .230308.1 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;

"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;

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e t 17 E.

"council" means the public school capital outlay w l n d 18 council;

= = 19 a l F.

"education technology infrastructure" means the i a e r 20 physical hardware and services used to interconnect students, a t m m 21 teachers, school districts and school buildings necessary to d r e 22 support broadband connectivity and remote learning as c e s k 23 determined by the council;

e a n b 24 G.

"fund" means the public school capital outlay u [ fund;

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and e t 17 L.

"school district population density factor" w l n d 18 means zero when the school district population density is = = 19 a l greater than fifty people per square mile, six-hundredths when i a e r 20 the school district population density is greater than fifteen a t m m 21 but less than fifty-one persons per square mile and twelve-twelve-hundredths d r e 22 hundredths when the school district population density is less c e s k 23 than sixteen persons per square mile."mile.” eSB a280 nPage b 24 - 3 -25 u [ .230308.1