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HOUSE BILL 168
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
OF
NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Alan T. Martinez and Rebecca Dow
AN ACT
RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION COSTS; REQUIRING THE CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRIES COMMISSION AND THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES DIVISION
OF THE REGULATION AND LICENSING DEPARTMENT TO CONSIDER COST
STUDIES FOR PROPOSED RULES AND TRADE BUREAU RECOMMENDATIONS
THAT ARE ANTICIPATED TO AFFECT THE COST OF COMMERCIAL OR
RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION; REQUIRING THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES
COMMISSION AND THE TRADE BUREAUS TO PRODUCE COST STUDIES FOR
PROPOSED RULES AND TRADE BUREAU RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE
ANTICIPATED TO AFFECT THE COST OF COMMERCIAL OR RESIDENTIAL
CONSTRUCTION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. A new section of the Construction Industries
Licensing Act is enacted to read:
"[NEW MATERIAL] COST STUDIES REQUIRED--ADOPTION OF CODE--
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RULEMAKING.--
A. A trade bureau within its respective
jurisdiction shall produce a cost study for any recommendation
for a minimum standard or additional specification made
pursuant to Section 60-13-44 NMSA 1978 or a rule that is
anticipated to affect the cost of commercial or residential
construction and submit the cost study along with the
recommendation to the commission and the division.
B. The commission shall produce a cost study for
any rule that is anticipated to affect the cost of commercial
or residential construction for which a trade bureau has not
already produced a cost study and submit the cost study to the
division. If the commission or the division changes a minimum
standard or additional specification recommended to the
commission and by a trade bureau pursuant to Section 60-13-44
NMSA 1978 and the changes are anticipated to affect the cost of
commercial or residential construction, the commission shall
complete a revised cost study for the standard or additional
specification and submit the cost study to the division.
C. A cost study or a revised cost study shall
estimate the change to the cost of commercial and residential
construction in the state that is anticipated by the proposed
change to rules or code.
D. Beginning July 1, 2025, the commission and the
division shall consider a cost study for any:
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(1) trade bureau recommendation for a minimum
standard or additional specification made pursuant to Section
60-13-44 NMSA 1978 before approving the recommendation; and
(2) proposed rule that is anticipated to
affect the cost of commercial or residential construction.
E. The commission or division shall provide the
cost study along with a proposed rule to the public in
accordance with the State Rules Act for review and public
comment prior to the rule's adoption, amendment or repeal."
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