How SB 94 changes current law

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The bill allows retired law enforcement officers to return to employment as law enforcement patrol officers under specified conditions.

• Section 10-11-8 NMSA 1978

  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other subsection of this section, certified law enforcement officers who have retired under any municipal police member coverage plan or as a certified law enforcement officer covered under state police member and adult correctional officer member coverage plan 1 may be subsequently employed as certified law enforcement patrol officers by an affiliated public employer if the retired member has not been employed as an employee of an affiliated public employer or retained as an independent contractor by the affiliated public employer from which the retired memb → K. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other subsection of this section, certified law enforcement officers who have retired under any municipal police member coverage plan or as a certified law enforcement officer covered under state police member and adult correctional officer member coverage plan 1 may be subsequently employed as certified law enforcement patrol officers by an affiliated public employer if the retired member has not been employed as an employee of an affiliated public employer or retained as an independent contractor by the affiliated public employer from which the retired member retired for at least twelve consecutive months from the date of retirement to the commencement of subsequent employment or reemployment with an affiliated public employer;

  This change explicitly allows retired law enforcement officers to be reemployed under certain conditions.