HOUSE BILL 492

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Antonio "Moe" Maestas

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; ADDING UNION REPRESENTATION ON THE GROUP BENEFITS COMMITTEE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. Section 10-7B-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1989, Chapter 231, Section 3) is amended to read:

     "10-7B-3. GROUP BENEFITS COMMITTEE--CREATED.--

          A. The "group benefits committee" is created. The committee shall be composed of [nine] members as follows:

                (1) one employee of, appointed by the secretary of, each of the two departments of the state, excluding state institutions of higher education, having the largest number of full-time employees;

                (2) the superintendent of insurance or [his] the superintendent's designee;

                (3) the director of the state personnel office or [his] the director's designee;

                (4) the executive secretary of the public employees retirement association or [his] the executive secretary's designee;

                (5) the chief financial officer of a state agency or institution, appointed by the governor;

                (6) one employee of a local public body participating in the state group plan, appointed by the governor; [and]

                (7) two public employees of state agencies, other than those from [whom] which members are appointed pursuant to Paragraphs (1) through (4) of this subsection, appointed by the governor; and

                (8) other members, appointed by the governor, as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of a bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of the Public Employee Bargaining Act.

          B. Members of the committee appointed by the governor or by a department secretary shall serve terms of four years. Vacancies in appointive memberships shall be filled by the appointing authority. An appointive membership shall be deemed vacant when the member ceases to be a public employee or ceases to meet the qualifications for [his] membership set forth in Subsection A of this section. An appointive membership shall also be deemed vacant when the member fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the committee.

          C. A majority of the committee shall constitute a quorum. The members of the committee shall elect annually from among the membership a [chairman] chair and vice [chairman] chair."

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