0001|                            HOUSE BILL 587
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                              BEN LUJAN
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO JUDGES; PROVIDING FOR AN ADDITIONAL JUDGE IN THE
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0012|     FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN
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0013|     EMERGENCY.
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0014|     
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 34-6-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968,
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0017|     Chapter 69, Section 7, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|          "34-6-4.  JUDGES--FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.--There shall be
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0019|     <s>[six]</s> <u>seven</u> district judges in the first judicial
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0020|     district."
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0021|          Section 2.  TEMPORARY PROVISION--APPOINTMENT--ELECTION.--
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0022|     The governor shall appoint one additional district judge to
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0023|     serve in the first judicial district beginning July 1, 1997. 
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0024|     Thereafter, the office shall be filled by persons elected to
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0025|     that office.  The first election to the office shall be held at
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0001|     the general election in 1998.
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0002|          Section 3.  APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred ninety-seven
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0003|     thousand five hundred seventy-seven dollars ($297,577) is
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0004|     appropriated from the general fund to the administrative office
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0005|     of the courts for expenditure in fiscal year 1998 to pay the
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0006|     cost of adding an additional judgeship in the first judicial
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0007|     district, including salary and benefits, training and office
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0008|     equipment, furnishings and supplies.  Any unexpended or
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0009|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of the fiscal year
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0010|     1998 shall revert to the general fund.
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0011|          Section 4.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0012|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0014|                            State of New Mexico
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0015|                      House of Representatives
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0016|   
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0017|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0018|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0021|                                               February 15, 1997
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0024|   Mr. Speaker:
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0001|        Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0002|   
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0003|                        HOUSE BILL 587
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0004|   
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0005|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0006|   recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
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0007|   
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0008|        1.   On page 1, line 11, after "JUDGE" insert "AND STAFF".
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0009|   
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0010|        2.   On page 2, line 3, after second "the" delete
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0011|   "administrative office of the courts" and insert in lieu thereof
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0012|   "first judicial district".
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0013|   
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0014|        3.   On page 2, line 5, after "judgeship" add "and staff".,
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0015|   
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0016|   and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE
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0017|   COMMITTEE.
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0018|   
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0019|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0025| <u>                                </u>                             Thomas P. Foy, Chairman
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0005|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0007|                        Date <u>            </u>
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0009|   The roll call vote was<u> 8 </u> For<u> 1 </u> Against
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0010|   Yes:      8
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0011|             No:       Pederson
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0012|             Excused:  Carpenter, King, Rios, Stewart
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0013|             Absent:   None
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