2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 8 - Family Planning
Section 24-8-5 - Prohibition against imposition of standards and requirements as prerequisites for receipt of requested family planning services.
Neither the state, its local governmental units nor any health facility furnishing family planning services shall subject any person to any standard or requirement as a prerequisite to the receipt of any requested family planning service except for:
A. a requirement of referral to a physician or a physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse or certified nurse-midwife working within that person's scope of practice when the requested family planning service is something other than information about family planning or nonprescription items;
B. any requirement imposed by law or regulation as a prerequisite to the receipt of a family planning service; or
C. payment for the service when payment is required in the ordinary course of providing the particular service to the person involved.
History: 1953 Comp., § 12-30-5, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 107, § 5; 2015, ch. 116, § 10.
The 2015 amendment, effective June 19, 2015, amended the Family Planning Act provision, relating to the prohibition against imposition of standards and requirements as prerequisites for receipt of family planning services, by including other health care professionals with each reference to "physician"; in Subsection A, after "physician", added "or a physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse or certified nurse-midwife working within that person's scope of practice".
Temporary provisions. — Laws 2015, ch. 116, § 16 provided that by January 1, 2016, every cabinet secretary, agency head and head of a political subdivision of the state shall update rules requiring an examination by, a certificate from or a statement of a licensed physician to also accept such examination, certificate or statement from an advanced practice registered nurse, certified nurse-midwife or physician assistant working within that person's scope of practice.
Law reviews. — For comment, "Voluntary Sterilization in New Mexico: Who Must Consent?" see 7 N.M.L. Rev. 121 (1976-77).
For article, "Treating Children Under the New Mexico Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code," see 10 N.M.L. Rev. 279 (1980).
