NM HB282

Requires juvenile probation services to review school attendance records during preliminary inquiries on delinquency complaints and initiate intervention meetings for chronically or excessively absent students within 5-10 business days

Schools must immediately provide juvenile probation services with student attendance records upon request, and report excessively absent students to the juvenile probation office in their judicial district

Children's court may suspend an excessively absent student's driving privileges for up to 90 days on first finding or up to one year for subsequent findings

Creates a petty misdemeanor for parents who cause or allow continued absences after their child is reported to juvenile probation services, with fines of $50-$100 for first offense and up to $500 plus six months imprisonment for repeat offenses

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