Summary:

 House Bill 467 (HB 467), relating to public education, amends statutes pertaining to safety and support services for multicultural students. HB 467 broadens elements of discrimination or disparate treatment subject to discipline. 

Legislation Overview:

 House Bill 467 amends statutes and broadens elements of discrimination pertaining to multicultural students.
SECTION 1 amends  Public Schools in School Discipline Policies to change the title to:
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICIES--RACIAL SENSITIVITY AND ANTI-RACISM TRAINING--ONLINE PORTAL FOR REPORTING RACIALLY MOTIVATED INCIDENTS AND RACIALIZED AGGRESSION INVOLVING STUDENTS OR SCHOOL PERSONNEL--STUDENTS MAY SELF-ADMINISTER CERTAIN MEDICATIONS.--
Subsection A which provides that local school boards shall establish student discipline policies to specify that no local school board shall allow for the imposition of discrimination or disparate treatment against a student to expand the direction to include disability, home language, gender, or level of family income. Subsection A also has inserted direction that no student shall be demeaned, bullied or punished for any of these characteristics or use of cultural symbols. 
Subsection D, which requires all school discipline policies shall define and include a specific prohibition against racialized aggression, directs that every school district and charter school shall provide links to the statewide online portal to report racially motivated incidents or radicalized aggression. 
Subsection D exempts information in connection with the submission from the Inspection of Public Records Act
SECTION 2 amends Public Schools in Bilingual Multicultural Education Programs in Subsection A, which specifies each bilingual multicultural program shall meet specific criteria, to delete A(3) and insert new text as follows:
(3) use the home or heritage language as the medium of instruction for any part or all of the curriculum of the grade levels within the program and use English for an additional part within the program when there is an identifiable need to improve the students' English language proficiency;
These changes delete the requirement to use two languages as mediums of instruction to specify the use of the home or heritage language when there is an identifiable need to improve the students English language proficiency.
Subsection A(4) is amended to delete references to two languages and insert “or heritage” language.
SECTION 3 amends Public Schools in the Hispanic Education Act in Subsection A to add to the purpose by inserting “ensure lifelong success”. 
Subsection B is inserted:
B. protect and preserve New Mexico's heritage Spanish language and culture;
Subsection D adds “community-based” in the list of stakeholders encouraged to work together to ensure lifelong success.
SECTION 4 amends the Hispanic Education Advisory Council in Subsection F to provide that members of the council may receive per diem and mileage as provided for nonsalaried public officers in the Per Diem and Mileage Act and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance.
SECTION 5 amends Black Education Liaison created in Subsection B(4)(a) to delete “hotline” and insert “online reporting portal” for reporting school-based incidents of racism or racial discrimination against anyone. A submission and any information in connection to the submission made through the online portal is not a public record and is exempt from the Inspection of Public Records Act; (b) links to the department's policy briefs or position papers as well as other pertinent research.