§ 10-11-43.1 NMSA 1978

State legislator member coverage plan 2 is applicable to state legislators who receive no salary for their legislative service and lieutenant governors who serve terms of office that end after December 31, 2002. To be covered under state legislator member coverage plan 2, a state legislator or lieutenant governor must elect to be a member no later than one hundred eighty days after first taking office or, for state legislators and the lieutenant governor serving on July 1, 2003, within one hundred eighty days of that date.