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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR

Rodella

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/31/07

2/21/07 HB 467/aHJC

SHORT TITLE

Court Protection Orders Database

SB

ANALYST C. Sanchez

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of HJC Amendment

The House Judiciary Amendment for House Bill 467 set a time frame (72Hrs of receipt) for the

local law enforcement agencies to enter orders of protection into the national crime information

center's order of protection file.

Synopsis of Original Bill

House Bill 467 amends Section 40-13-6 NMSA 1978. When a law enforcement agency receives

protection orders entered under the Family Violence Protection Act, the agency must enter the

order in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) protection order database. If the

protection order does not meet the criteria for entry in NCIC’s database, it shall be entered on a

local database that is accessible at all times.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

There will be a minimal administrative cost for statewide update, distribution and documentation

of statutory changes. Any additional fiscal impact on the judiciary would be proportional to the

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enforcement of this law and commenced prosecutions. New laws, amendments to existing laws

and new hearings have the potential to increase caseloads in the courts, thus requiring additional

general fund resources to handle the increase.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The second judicial district court, administrative office of the courts, department of public safety,

Bernalillo County sheriff, and city of Albuquerque are developing a pilot project to electronically

transmit protection orders. This will eliminate data entry by law enforcement agencies, and

should ease the process of entering these orders into the appropriate tracking database.

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

The courts are participating in performance-based budgeting. It is unknown if enactment of this

bill would impact performance measures as they relate to judicial budgeting.

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ENACTING THIS BILL

Status Quo

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