New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico House Bill HB533 Compare Versions

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28	28	HOUSE BILL 533
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30	30	TH LEGISLATURE
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45	45	2025
46	46	INTRODUCED BY
47	47	Tara L. Lujan
48	48	AN ACT
49	49	RELATING TO CORRECTIONS; AMENDING THE RESTRICTED HOUSING ACT;
50	50	EXPANDING THE AGE LIMIT ON SOLITARY CONFINEMENT; REDUCING THE
51	51	NUMBER OF HOURS AND DAYS AN INMATE MAY BE HELD IN SOLITARY
52	52	CONFINEMENT.
53	53	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
54	54	SECTION 1. Section 33-16-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
55	55	Chapter 194, Section 1) is amended to read:
56	56	"33-16-1. SHORT TITLE.--[This act ] Chapter 33, Article 16
57	57	NMSA 1978 may be cited as the "Restricted Housing Act"."
58	58	SECTION 2. Section 33-16-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
59	59	Chapter 194, Section 2) is amended to read:
60	60	"33-16-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Restricted Housing
61	61	Act:
62	62	A. "correctional facility" means a jail, prison or
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90	90	other detention facility that is used for the confinement of
91	91	adult or juvenile persons, whether operated by the state or a
92	92	political subdivision of the state or a private contractor on
93	93	behalf of the state or a political subdivision of the state;
94	94	B. "inmate" means an adult or juvenile person who
95	95	is under sentence to or confined in a correctional facility;
96	96	C. "meaningful human contact" means in-person or
97	97	virtual interactions with family, peers, counselors, educators
98	98	or other persons for purposes other than institutional
99	99	discipline;
100	100	[C.] D. "restricted housing", whether instituted
101	101	pursuant to disciplinary, administrative, inmate classification
102	102	or other action, means confinement of an inmate locked in a
103	103	cell or similar living quarters in a correctional facility for
104	104	[twenty-two] seventeen or more hours each day without any
105	105	rehabilitative programming that includes daily, meaningful [and
106	106	sustained] human [interaction] contact; and
107	107	[D.] E. "serious mental disability" means:
108	108	(1) a serious mental illness, including
109	109	schizophrenia, psychosis, major depression and bipolar
110	110	disorder; or
111	111	(2) having a significant functional impairment
112	112	along with a brain injury, organic brain syndrome or
113	113	intellectual disability."
114	114	SECTION 3. Section 33-16-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
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143	143	Chapter 194, Section 3) is amended to read:
144	144	"33-16-3. RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF RESTRICTED
145	145	HOUSING.--
146	146	A. An inmate who is younger than [eighteen ] twenty-
147	147	one or older than fifty-five years of age shall not be placed
148	148	in restricted housing.
149	149	B. An inmate who is known to be pregnant or in the
150	150	first eight weeks of the postpartum recovery period after
151	151	giving birth shall not be placed in restricted housing.
152	152	C. An inmate who belongs to a vulnerable
153	153	population, including an inmate who identifies as lesbian, gay,
154	154	bisexual, transgender or queer, shall not be placed in
155	155	restricted housing involuntarily or for protective custody.
156	156	D. An inmate in a facility operated by the
157	157	corrections department or by a contractor with the department
158	158	shall not be housed in restricted housing for more than fifteen
159	159	consecutive days or more than ninety days total in a twelve-
160	160	month period.
161	161	E. If a warden, jail administrator or other person
162	162	in charge of a correctional facility finds that an inmate
163	163	requires housing in restricted housing for more than ninety
164	164	days total in a twelve-month period, the person shall:
165	165	(1) make a written record of the facts and
166	166	circumstances that necessitated the inmate's placement in
167	167	restricted housing; and
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196	196	(2) prepare a written action plan describing
197	197	how the facility will transition the inmate out of restricted
198	198	housing at the earliest opportunity.
199	199	F. An inmate in a jail of a political subdivision
200	200	of the state shall not be held in restricted housing during the
201	201	first three days of incarceration in that jail, except when the
202	202	findings of a suicide screening instrument conclude that the
203	203	inmate is not likely to engage in harm to self.
204	204	G. Correctional facilities shall not implement or
205	205	enforce any policy or practice that is functionally equivalent
206	206	to restricted housing, solitary confinement or other term,
207	207	regardless of the name or designation of such policy or
208	208	practice of such action or housing unit. "
209	209	SECTION 4. Section 33-16-5 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
210	210	Chapter 194, Section 5) is amended to read:
211	211	"33-16-5. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES--TRANSPARENCY AND
212	212	REPORTING.--
213	213	A. Every three months, every correctional facility
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215	215	(1) produce a report that includes:
216	216	(a) the name, inmate identification ,
217	217	age, gender and ethnicity of every inmate who was placed in
218	218	restricted housing during the previous three months, including
219	219	every inmate who is in restricted housing at the time the
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249	249	[(b) the reason restricted housing was
250	250	instituted for each inmate listed in the report; and
251	251	(c)] (b) the dates on which each inmate
252	252	was placed in and released from restricted housing during the
253	253	previous three months; and
254	254	(2) submit a report prepared in accordance
255	255	with this subsection to the:
256	256	(a) legislature, if the correctional
257	257	facility is a prison; and
258	258	(b) board of county commissioners of the
259	259	county in which the correctional facility is located, if the
260	260	facility is a jail.
261	261	B. The corrections department shall post to its
262	262	public website every report produced pursuant to Subsection A
263	263	of this section."
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