A. The provisions of the School Personnel Act [Chapter 22, Article 10A NMSA 1978], including licensure requirements, shall not apply to industry instructors, except that they shall be required to undergo a background check as provided for licensed school employees in Section 22-10A-5 NMSA 1978. The school district or charter school may act on the information received from the background check and refuse to approve a person as an industry instructor. An industry instructor shall provide for the safety of students under the industry instructor's care in the same manner as required of licensed school employees and shall not allow persons who have not been vetted through the background check process to have unsupervised contact with students.
B. For purposes of the public school insurance authority, each pre-apprenticeship program shall be considered a school-sponsored activity and each industry instructor shall be considered a school volunteer.
History: Laws 2009, ch. 256, § 3.
Effective dates. — Laws 2009, ch. 256 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 19, 2009, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Article 14 - Vocational Education or Rehabilitation
Section 22-14-1 - Definitions.
Section 22-14-2 - Vocational education; state governing authority.
Section 22-14-2.1 - Vocational rehabilitation; state governing authority.
Section 22-14-3 - State agency for vocational education; authority.
Section 22-14-3.1 - State agency for vocational rehabilitation; authority.
Section 22-14-5 - Instructional support and vocational education division; powers; duties.
Section 22-14-7 - Vocational rehabilitation division; director.
Section 22-14-8 - Vocational rehabilitation division; powers; duties.
Section 22-14-9 - Custody of funds; budgets; disbursements.
Section 22-14-10 - Recompiled.
Section 22-14-11 - Vocational rehabilitation; eligibility.
Section 22-14-11.1 - Third party liability.
Section 22-14-13 - Nontransferable or nonassignable rights.
Section 22-14-14 - Limitations on political activities.
Section 22-14-16 - Admission to state educational institutions; exemption from certain fees.
Section 22-14-20 - New Mexico school for the visually handicapped; certain functions transferred.
Section 22-14-22 - Purchases by state agencies and subdivisions.
Section 22-14-23 - Application of funds.
Section 22-14-25 - Definitions.
Section 22-14-27 - Assuring preferences to blind persons.
Section 22-14-28 - Powers and duties of the commission relating to the vending stand program.
Section 22-14-30 - Vocational rehabilitation division; designated agency for federal funds.