SENATE BILL 205

55th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2022

INTRODUCED BY

Ron Griggs

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO TORTS; EXEMPTING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS FROM THE DEFINITION OF "PUBLIC BODY" IN THE NEW MEXICO CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 41-4A-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2021, Chapter 119, Section 2) is amended to read:

     "41-4A-2. DEFINITION.--As used in the New Mexico Civil Rights Act, "public body" means a state or local government, an advisory board, a commission, an agency or an entity created by the constitution of New Mexico or any branch of government that receives public funding, including political subdivisions, special tax districts, school districts and institutions of higher education, but not including an acequia or community ditch, a soil and water conservation district, a land grant-merced, a mutual domestic water consumers association or other association organized pursuant to the Sanitary Projects Act, [or] a water users' association, a volunteer fire department or a volunteer emergency medical technician pursuant to the Emergency Medical Services Act."

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