HB 142

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AN ACT

RELATING TO COURTS; CREATING THE JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE

EVALUATION FUND; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

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

Section 1. JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FUND--

CREATED.--

A. The "judicial performance evaluation fund" is

created in the state treasury to be administered by the

administrative office of the courts. The fund shall consist

of appropriations, gifts, grants, donations and bequests made

to the fund. Income from the fund shall be credited to the

fund. Balances in the fund shall not revert to the general

fund at the end of any fiscal year.

B. Money in the judicial performance evaluation

fund is subject to appropriation by the legislature to the

administrative office of the courts for the operation and

costs of the judicial performance evaluation commission to

perform the duties required by the supreme court to evaluate

appellate, district and metropolitan court judges.

C. Payments from the judicial performance

evaluation fund shall be made upon vouchers issued and signed

by the director of the administrative office of the courts or

the director's designee upon warrants drawn by the secretary

of finance and administration.