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New Mexico Legislature· HB 95h/cncrd SGND BY GOV (Mar. 4) Ch. 25.

ADDITIONAL SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUDGESHIP, the official text

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HOUSE BILL 95

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2026

INTRODUCED BY

Dayan Hochman-Vigil

AN ACT

RELATING TO COURTS; CREATING AN ADDITIONAL JUDGESHIP IN THE
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

SECTION 1. Section 34-6-5 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968,
Chapter 69, Section 8, as amended) is amended to read:

"34-6-5. JUDGES--SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT.--There shall
be [thirty] thirty-one district judges in the second judicial
district."

SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION.--Four hundred fifty-one
thousand four hundred dollars ($451,400) is appropriated from
the general fund to the administrative office of the courts for
expenditure in fiscal year 2027 to pay the costs associated
with a new judgeship in the second judicial district, including
salaries and benefits for the judge and staff, furniture,
equipment and supplies. Any unexpended balance remaining at
the end of fiscal year 2027 shall revert to the general fund.

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