The home school student activities program unit for a school district is determined by multiplying the number of home school students who are participating in school district activities governed by the New Mexico activities association by the cost differential factor of 0.1. The home school student activities program unit shall be paid to the school district in which it is generated. A home school student is eligible to participate in up to three school district activities at the public school in the attendance zone in which the student resides, according to the New Mexico activities association guidelines. The school district shall verify each home school student's academic eligibility to participate in school district activities. As used in this section, "activities" means athletics, co-curricular and extracurricular activities sanctioned by the New Mexico activities association.

History: Laws 2007, ch. 365, § 2; 2009, ch. 93, § 1; 2012, ch. 23, § 1.

The 2012 amendment, effective May 16, 2012, eliminated the requirement that home school student activities program units be based on athletic activities; in the third sentence, after "school district", deleted "athletic"; in the fourth sentence, after "school district", deleted "athletic"; and added the last sentence.

Applicability. — Laws 2012, ch. 23, § 2 provided that the provisions of Laws 2012, ch. 23, § 1 apply to the 2012-2013 school year and subsequent school years.

The 2009 amendment, effective June 19, 2009, increased the number of school district activities in which a home school student may participate from one athletic activity to three athletic activities.