0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1064
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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|                         W. C. "DUB" WILLIAMS
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITY SECURITY; PROVIDING FOR
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0012|     REASONABLE DETENTION OF A PERSON COMMITTING CRIMES.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  SHORT TITLE.--This act may be cited as the 
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0016|     "Health Care Facility Security Act".
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0017|          Section 2.  DEFINITION.--As used in the Health Care
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0018|     Facility Security Act, "health care facility" means a public or
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0019|     private place where a health care worker performs health care
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0020|     services and includes hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices,
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0021|     dentists' offices and any private premises in which a health
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0022|     care worker is actually performing a health care service.
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0023|          Section 3.  DETENTION BY SECURITY OFFICER.--If a special
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0024|     or security officer has probable cause to believe that a person
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0025|     has committed a crime at a health care facility, the officer
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0001|     may take the suspected person into custody and detain him in a
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0002|     reasonable manner for a reasonable amount of time pending
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0003|     arrival of a law enforcement officer.  Upon receiving the
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0004|     report of the special or security officer and investigating the
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0005|     complaint, the law enforcement officer may take the detained
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0006|     person into custody.
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