New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico Senate Bill SB447 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/19/2025

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SENATE BILL 447
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TH LEGISLATURE 
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STATE
 
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NEW
 
MEXICO
 
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 FIRST SESSION
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2025
INTRODUCED BY
Pat Woods
AN ACT
RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE; REQUIRING THE INSTALLATION OF
ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1.  A new section of Chapter 2, Article 3 NMSA
1978 is enacted to read:
"[NEW MATERIAL] ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS.--
A.  The director of the legislative council service
shall ensure that no later than December 31, 2026, at least
forty-three percent of the vehicle parking spaces in the
parking facility located beneath the building in which the
legislature is housed are equipped with an electric vehicle
charging station.
B.  For the purposes of this section:
(1)  "electric vehicle" means a motor vehicle
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that derives power from electricity stored in a battery that is
capable of being recharged from an external source of
electricity; and
(2)  "electric vehicle charging station" means
a facility that transfers electricity to an electric vehicle
from an external source."
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