0001|                            SENATE BILL 57
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            R. L. STOCKARD
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0008|      FOR THE COURTS, CORRECTIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE
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0009|     
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT; INCREASING EDUCATIONAL
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0012|     REQUIREMENTS FOR PROSPECTIVE STATE POLICE OFFICERS; INCREASING
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0013|     SALARY LEVELS FOR ALL STATE POLICE OFFICERS; MAKING AN
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0014|     APPROPRIATION.
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0015|     
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  Section 29-2-6 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1941,
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0018|     Chapter 147, Section 6, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "29-2-6.  QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS.--
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0020|               A.  Members of the New Mexico state police, except
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0021|     the chief, shall:
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0022|                    (1)  at the time of their appointment, be
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0023|     citizens of the United States;
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0024|                    (2)  at the time of their appointment, have
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0025|     reached twenty-one years of age;
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0001|                    ~[(3)  have at least a high school education
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0002|     or its equivalent;]~
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0003|                    |(3)  at the time of their appointment, have
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0004|     completed not less than sixty hours of college credit|;
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0005|                    (4)  be of good moral character and not have
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0006|     been convicted of a felony or ~[any]~ infamous crime in the
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0007|     courts of this state or ~[any]~ other state or |any| country
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0008|     or in the federal courts; and
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0009|                    (5)  ~[successfully]~ pass ~[any]~ |a|
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0010|     physical examination the New Mexico state police may require.
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0011|                B.  ~[No]~ |A| person ||shall |not| be
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0012|     commissioned a member of the New Mexico state police who is
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0013|     related by blood or marriage within the fourth degree to
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0014|     ~[any]~ |a| member of the ~[department of]~ public safety
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0015|     advisory commission."
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0016|          Section 2.  APPROPRIATION.--Four million seventy-three
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0017|     thousand four hundred dollars ($4,073,400) is appropriated
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0018|     from the general fund to the department of public safety for
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0019|     expenditure in fiscal year 1999 for the purpose of providing
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0020|     all state police officers with a salary increase, subject to
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0021|     satisfactory job performance.  Any unexpended or unencumbered
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0022|     balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert
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0023|     to the general fund.
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0024|          Section 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0025|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1998.
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