0001| SENATE BILL 915
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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| LEONARD LEE RAWSON
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0010| AN ACT
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0011| RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT; AMENDING THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
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0012| TRAINING ACT; DEFINING "POLICE OFFICER".
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0014| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015| Section 1. Section 29-7-7 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1981,
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0016| Chapter 114, Section 6, as amended) is amended to read:
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0017| "29-7-7. DEFINITIONS.--For the purpose of the Law
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0018| Enforcement Training Act:
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0019| A. "academy" means the New Mexico law enforcement
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0020| academy;
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0021| B. "basic law enforcement training" means a course
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0022| consisting of not less than four hundred hours of instruction
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0023| in basic law enforcement training as required by the Law
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0024| Enforcement Training Act;
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0025| C. "board" means the New Mexico law enforcement
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0001| academy board;
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0002| D. "conviction" means an adjudication of guilt or a
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0003| plea of no contest and includes convictions that are suspended
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0004| or deferred;
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0005| E. "director" means the director of the academy;
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0006| F. "in-service law enforcement training" means a
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0007| course of instruction required of all certified peace officers
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0008| designed to train and equip all police officers in the state
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0009| with specific law enforcement skills and to ensure the
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0010| continuing development of all police officers in the state.
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0011| The training and instruction shall be kept current and may be
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0012| conducted on a regional basis at the discretion of the
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0013| director;
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0014| G. "police officer" means any commissioned employee
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0015| of a law enforcement agency that is part of or administered by
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0016| the state or any political subdivision of the state and
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0017| includes any employee of a missile range civilian police
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0018| department who is a graduate of a recognized certified regional
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0019| law enforcement training facility, which employee is
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0020| responsible for the prevention and detection of crime or the
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0021| enforcement of the penal or traffic or highway laws of this
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0022| state. The term specifically includes deputy sheriffs.
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0023| Sheriffs are eligible to attend the academy and are eligible to
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0024| receive certification as provided in the Law Enforcement
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0025| Training Act. As used in this subsection, "commissioned" means
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0001| an employee of a law enforcement agency who is authorized by a
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0002| sheriff or chief of police to apprehend, arrest and bring
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0003| before the court all violators within the state; and
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0004| H. "certified regional law enforcement training
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0005| facility" means a law enforcement training facility within the
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0006| state certified by the director, with the approval of the
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0007| academy's board of directors, that offers basic law enforcement
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0008| training and in-service law enforcement training that is
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0009| comparable to or exceeds the standards of the programs of the
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0010| academy."
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0014| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0015| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0018| February 28, 1997
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0020| Mr. President:
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0022| Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0023|
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0024| SENATE BILL 915
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0025|
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0001| has had it under consideration and reports same WITHOUT
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0002| RECOMMENDATION, and thence referred to the PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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0003| COMMITTEE.
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0005| Respectfully submitted,
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0009| __________________________________
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0010| Fernando R. Macias, 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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0020| The roll call vote was 5 For 0 Against
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0021| Yes: 5
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0022| No: None
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0023| Excused: Lopez, Sanchez, McSorley
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0024| Absent: None
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0007| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0008| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0011| March 14, 1997
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0013| Mr. President:
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0015| Your PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0017| SENATE BILL 915
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0019| has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation
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0020| that it DO PASS.
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0022| Respectfully submitted,
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0002| Shannon Robinson, Chairman
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0006| Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0007| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0011| Date ________________________
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0014| The roll call vote was 7 For 0 Against
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0015| Yes: 7
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0016| No: 0
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0017| Excused: Garcia, Smith
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0018| Absent: None
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0021| S0915PA1
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0022| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0023| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0002| October 24, 1997
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0005| SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENT number to SENATE BILL 915
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0007| AMENDMENT sponsored by SENATOR RAWSON
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0009| 1. On page 2, line 18, after the comma insert: "and who is
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0010| currently certifiable by the New Mexico law enforcement academy".
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0016| Senator Leonard Lee Rawson
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0020| Adopted Not Adopted
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0022| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0025| Date
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0003| S0915FS1 State of New Mexico
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0004| House of Representatives
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0006| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0007| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0010| March 21, 1997
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0013| Mr. Speaker:
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0015| Your CONSUMER AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom
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0016| has been referred
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0018| SENATE BILL 915, as amended
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0020| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0021| recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0022| JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
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0023|
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0024| Respectfully submitted,
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0004| Gary King, Chairman
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0007| Adopted Not Adopted
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0008| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0010| Date
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0012| The roll call vote was 6 For 0 Against
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0013| Yes: 6
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0014| Excused: Rios, Sandel, Vigil, Trujillo
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0015| Absent: None
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