0001| SENATE BILL 63
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0002| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003| 1996
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0004| INTRODUCED BY
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0005| MICHAEL S. SANCHEZ
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0009| FOR THE COURTS, CORRECTIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE
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0011| AN ACT
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0012| RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT; REQUIRING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
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0013| TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION IN RECOGNIZING OFFENDERS WHO MAY HAVE A
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0014| MENTAL ILLNESS; ENACTING A SECTION OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
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0015| TRAINING ACT.
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0017| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018| Section 1. A new section of the Law Enforcement Training
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0019| Act is enacted to read:
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0020| "[NEW MATERIAL] INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENT--RECOGNITION OF
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0021| MENTAL ILLNESS.--
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0022| A. The New Mexico law enforcement academy board
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0023| shall establish and include in all basic law enforcement
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0024| training and in all in-service law enforcement training an
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0025| instructional component on encountering alleged offenders or
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0001| persons in the community who may have a mental illness.
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0002| B. The instructional component shall include:
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0003| (1) recognizing behaviors that may indicate
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0004| that a person may be suffering from a mental illness;
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0005| (2) effective methods of communicating with a
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0006| person who may be suffering from a mental illness; and
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0007| (3) incarceration options or other available
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0008| options in communities statewide for a person who may be
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0009| suffering from a mental illness."
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0012| FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0013| SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0016| JANUARY 18, 1996
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0018| Mr. President:
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0020| Your COMMITTEES' COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0022| SENATE BILL 63
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0024| has had it under consideration and finds same to be GERMANE, PURSUANT
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0025| TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS, and thence referred to the SENATE
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0001| PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.
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0003| Respectfully submitted,
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0008| __________________________________
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0009| SENATOR MANNY M. ARAGON, Chairman
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0013| Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0014| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0017| Date ________________________
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0021| The roll call vote was For Against
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0022| Yes:
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0023| No:
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0024| Excused:
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0025| Absent:
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0003| S0063CC1
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