HOUSE BILL 351

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2011

INTRODUCED BY

Rick Little

AN ACT

RELATING TO PERSONNEL; LIMITING EXEMPT EMPLOYEES FROM FILLING CLASSIFIED POSITIONS.

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

     SECTION 1. A new section of the Personnel Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] EXEMPT EMPLOYEES FILLING CLASSIFIED POSITIONS--PROHIBITION.--An employee of the state who is exempt from the Personnel Act pursuant to Subsection B, C, D, G, K, L or N of Section 10-9-4 NMSA 1978 shall not be eligible for a classified position in a department or agency under the control of an elected official in the executive branch during the last year of the term of the elected official under whose administration the exempt employee was appointed or retained."

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