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2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 28 - Human Rights
Article 18 - Education of the Handicapped
Section 28-18-1 - Department designation; authorization; payment system. (2011)
NM Stat § 28-18-1 (2013) What's This?
28-18-1. Department designation; authorization; payment system. (2011)
A. The department of health is designated as the lead state agency for the development and administration of a statewide system of comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency early intervention services for eligible children with or at risk of developmental delay and their families. The program shall be known as the "family, infant, toddler program".
B. The parent may choose whether the parent's eligible child shall participate in the family, infant, toddler program.
C. The public education department, the human services department, the children, youth and families department and other publicly funded services shall collaborate with the department of health and continue to provide all services within their respective statutory responsibilities to eligible children. State and local interagency agreements shall delineate responsibility for provisions of the family, infant, toddler program.
D. The department of health shall establish a payment system that shall maximize funds from appropriate federal, state, local and private sources to support the family, infant, toddler program.
E. The secretary of health shall meet the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C., Sections 1475(c) and 1476(a), contingent upon voluntary participation by the state, including:
(1) establishing policies and adopting rules necessary to comply with those sections of that act;
(2) implementing procedures to ensure that services are provided to eligible children in a timely manner;
(3) making arrangements for the provisions of the family, infant, toddler program;
(4) carrying out the general administration, supervision and monitoring of the family, infant, toddler program;
(5) resolving complaints concerning the family, infant, toddler program;
(6) maintaining and expanding state and local coordination and interagency agreements pertaining to the family, infant, toddler program;
(7) identifying and coordinating all available resources for early intervention services for the family, infant, toddler program; and
(8) establishing requirements for qualified personnel involved in the family, infant, toddler program.
F. As used in this section:
(1) "early intervention services" means services that are designed to meet the developmental needs of eligible children, including physical development, communications development, adaptive development, social and emotional development or sensory development; and
(2) "eligible child" means infants and toddlers between the ages of birth and thirty-six months with developmental delay or who are at risk of delay according to specific criteria established by the department of health.
History: Laws 1990, ch. 4, § 1; 1993, ch. 34, § 1; 1993, ch. 178, § 1; 1995, ch. 69, § 4; 2011, ch. 166, § 2.
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