NM HB219

Requires juvenile probation services to review school attendance records during preliminary inquiries for all delinquency complaints and initiate intervention meetings within 10 business days for chronically absent students (missing 10%+ of school days)

Mandates that children's court attorneys file petitions under the Family in Need of Court-Ordered Services Act when a child subject to a delinquency complaint is chronically or excessively absent from school

Requires public schools to immediately provide juvenile probation services with student attendance records and intervention history upon request

Establishes that juvenile probation services must hold intervention review meetings within 5 business days for students who are both subject to delinquency proceedings and excessively absent from school

Adds "juvenile probation services" as a defined term in the Attendance for Success Act and authorizes probation services to initiate enforcement of the Act for chronically absent students subject to delinquency complaints