Summary:

 Senate Bill261 (SB261) relates to public health by creating the Hub and Spoke Pilot Project in the Department of Health to deliver preventive health care services at public schools in underserved areas of the state and defining terms. Also, providing project goals and parameters and assigning duties. The bill included appropriation. 

Legislation Overview:

 Senate Bill261 (SB261) The "hub-and-spoke pilot project" is created as a five-year pilot project in the department to study the feasibility of delivering preventive health care at public schools in underserved areas of the state through a hub-andspoke care model and to measure how access to preventive health care influences student health and academic outcomes and public health more broadly.
The project shall be located in San Miguel County and will contract with the Federally Qualified Health Center and cover five school districts in northeastern New Mexico. 
A cooperative health care team will be comprised of a licensed school nurse, a licensed primary care provider, a licensed behavioral health care provider, a certified athletic trainer and a certified community health care worker. 
In addition to contracting, the Department will collect and compile data regarding student health and academic outcomes and public health implications related to the project; collaborate with the public education department, which shall assist the department in measuring student academic outcomes; and  report periodically on the project's implementation to the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee and provide a final report to the Governor and the Legislature by November 1, 2030.
One million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,750,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Health for expenditure in fiscal years 2026 through 2030 to implement and administer the hub-and-spoke pilot project.