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HOUSE BILL 406
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
OF
NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Pamelya Herndon
AN ACT
RELATING TO CRIME; PROVIDING FOR A VICTIM'S RECOVERY WHEN THE
VICTIM IS INCARCERATED AT THE TIME OF THE CRIME.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 31-22-11 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1981,
Chapter 325, Section 11) is amended to read:
"31-22-11. [NO] AWARD TO [CERTAIN CONFINED ] PERSONS WHO
ARE VICTIMIZED WHILE INCARCERATED .--[No award shall be made ] A
person who is a victim of an enumerated crime while that person
is incarcerated in a county or municipal jail, penitentiary or
other correctional facility may apply for compensation pursuant
to the [provisions of the ] Crime Victims Reparation Act [to a
victim injured while confined in a county or municipal jail,
penitentiary or other correctional facility ] after the person
is released from incarceration ."
.230448.1