| HB 29 |
Rehm |
MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE VIOLATIONS
When a registration for a vehicle is suspended for failure to have auto insurance, an additional $75 fee will be added to the reinstatement fee. These funds will be appropriated to the Motor Vehicle Division to enforce the Mandatory Financial Reponsibility Act. |
| HB 146 |
Lundstrom |
DEPT. OF MOTOR VEHICLES ACT
A new section of the law to create a separate Department of Motor Vehicles. |
| HB 202 |
Tripp |
Amends the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act to allow operation of off-highway motor vehicles on highways, except a limited access highway or freeways. |
| HB 294 |
Miera |
MEDIUM-SPEED VEHICLES ON STREETS & HIGHWAYS
Adds "medium speed vehicle" to definitions section of Motor Vehicle Act; adds a new section which authorizes the operation of medium speed vehicles on public roadways. |
| HB 304 |
Rehm |
INCREASE DWI CHEMICAL TEST FEES
from $65 to $100. |
| HB 305 |
Rehm |
FRONT & REAR VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES |
| HB 306 |
Rehm |
DRIVING UNDER INFLUENCE OF DRUG, NO INTERLOCKS FOR DRUG DWI'S
Makes it illegal to drive in New Mexico with specified amounts in the blood of amphetamine, cocaine, heroin, marijuana or their metabolites, or methamphetamine, within three hours of driving. Makes interlock required only when the person has an alcohol conviction. |
| HB 374 |
Gonzales |
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAX TO STATE ROAD FUND
Distributes a portion of the motor vehicle excise tax to the state road fund. |
| HB 417 |
Parks |
DWI LICENSE REVOCATION HEARINGS BY PHONE
Allows all parties to participate in license revocation hearings in person, by telephone or other appropriate electronic means. |
| HB 420 |
Parks |
PROHIBIT MINORS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL
Makes "under the influence of alcohol" a delinquent act under the Children's Code. |
| HB 425 |
Martinez |
MOTOR TRANSPORTATION HIGHWAY POLICE
Enacting the motor transportation highway police act; creating the motor transportation highway police department and the position of state director of that department; assigning powers and duties; providing for personnel appointments; requiring regional transit district policing by joint powers agreement between the motor transportation highway police department and regional transit districts; providing for operational support and maintenance; requiring the homeland security and emergency management department and state law enforcement agencies to prepare and report the results of a statewide law enforcement strategic plan; transferring the motor transportation division of the department of public safety to the motor transportation highway police department; transferring department of public safety positions to the motor transportation highway police department; amending, repealing and enacting sections of the nmsa 1978. |
| HB 596 |
Campos |
DWI OFFENDER SOBRIETY MONITORING DEVICES
House Bill 596 amends Section 66-8-102 to allow the court to require an offender convicted
pursuant to this section to obtain and use an electronic sobriety monitoring device, as a condition
of probation. The device will be one available in that jurisdiction and approved by the court, and
the offender shall pay all costs associated with the device unless the offender is determined by
the court to be indigent.
The bill also amends Section 66-8-102.3 regarding the “interlock device fund.” By this bill, as is
already the case for an offender required to operate a vehicle with an ignition interlock device, an
offender using a sobriety monitoring device will have to pay a fee between $50 and $100 to the
vendor of the device, who shall remit the collected fees on a quarterly basis to be deposited into
that fund. Further, the interlock device fund can be used to cover the costs of installing and
removing and one-half the cost of leasing sobriety monitoring devices for indigent offenders.
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| SB 270 |
Cravens |
IMMOBILIZATION & INTERLOCKS ON DWI VEHICLES
Requires the immobization of the vehicle of a person arrested for DWI until the person installs an interlock or until the final adjudication of the charges. This section has an innocent owner provision, and provisions for forfeiture if the driver or owner fail to comply with the law. |
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| SB 307 |
Cravens |
SEIZURE OF CERTAIN DWI-RELATED VEHICLES
When a person is arrested for driving while revoked for DWI or for a violation of the Implied Consent Act, the motor vehicle the person was driving shall be seized upon arrest. If the person arrested is the owner of the vehicle, the vehicle shall be subject to forfeiture to the state pursuant to the provisions of the Forfeiture Act. Law includes innocent owner provision. |
| SB 308 |
Cravens |
HOME BREATHALYZER FOR CERTAIN DWI CONVICTS
If an offender states under oath that the offender does not own a motor vehicle or have access to a motor vehicle and is therefore unable to have an ignition interlock device installed pursuant to Subsection N of this section, the court shall order the offender to obtain a home breathalyzer that identifies the person giving the sample and to provide morning and evening breath samples for the period of time provided in Subsections N and O of the DWI law (66-8-102). Unless determined by the court to be indigent, the offender shall pay all costs associated with the home breathalyzer. |
SB 512 |
Griego |
LIQUOR LAW ENFORCEMENT, LICENSES & VIOLATIONS
This 71-page bill makes changes in more than a dozen parts of the Liquor Control Act, some of significant consequence, others in the nature of clean-up or clarification. |
| SB 536 |
Cravens |
DWI for Habitual Offender Sentencing.
Senate Bill 536 amends the Habitual Offender Sentencing Act, Section 31-18-17 NMSA 1978 to
include a prior felony DWI conviction as a prior felony conviction for sentencing enhancement
purposes.
One prior gets a habitual offender one extra year, two priors four years and three priors eight
years. |
| SB 686 |
Martinez |
NO DWI IGNITION INTERLOCK 3 YEAR REQUIREMENT
Senate Bill 686 proposes to amend Section 66-5-29 NMSA 1978, Motor Vehicle Code, to
remove the three-year ignition interlock license requirement for offenders who have a driver’s
license revocation pursuant to the law in effect prior to June 17, 2005. |
