0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO INSURANCE; INCREASING THE EXPENSE LIMIT FROM THE PATIENT'S
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0003| COMPENSATION FUND FOR THE MEDICAL REVIEW COMMISSION.
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0005| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0006|      Section 1.  Section 41-5-28 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1976, Chapter
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0007| 2, Section 29, as amended) is amended to read:
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0008|      "41-5-28.  PAYMENT OF MEDICAL REVIEW COMMISSION
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0009| EXPENSES.--Unless otherwise provided by law, expenses incurred in
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0010| carrying out the powers, duties and functions of the New Mexico
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0011| medical review commission, including the salary of the director,
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0012| shall be paid by the patient's compensation fund.  The
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0013| superintendent, in his capacity as custodian of the fund, shall
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0014| disburse fund money to the director upon receipt of vouchers
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0015| itemizing expenses incurred by the New Mexico medical review
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0016| commission.  The director shall supply the chief justice of the
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0017| New Mexico supreme court with duplicates of all vouchers submitted
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0018| to the superintendent.  Expenses paid by the fund shall not exceed
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0019| three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) in any single
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0020| calendar year; provided, however, that expenses incurred in
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0021| defending the commission shall not be subject to that maximum
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0022| amount."                             
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