Sections 1 through 16 of this act may be cited as the “Retiree Health Care Act”.
HISTORY:
Laws 1990, ch. 6, § 1.
Editor’s notes.
Currently existing provisions of Laws 1990, ch. 6 are codified as 10-7C-1 to 10-7C-7 and 10-7C-8 to 10-7C-16 NMSA 1978.
Sections 10-7C-7.1 and 10-7C-7.2 NMSA 1978 enacted by Laws 2002, ch. 79, §§ 1 and 2 were placed under the Retiree Health Care Act by the state’s compiler due to the subject matter.
Sections 10-7C-17, 10-7C-18 and 10-7C-19 NMSA 1978 by Laws 2002, ch. 75, §§ 2 to 4 and by Laws 2002, ch. 80, §§ 2 to 4 were enacted as part of the Retiree Health Care Act. However, the short title section was not amended to include those sections.
Notes to Decisions
Breach of contract.
Three-year statute of limitations under 37-1-24 NMSA 1978 barred claims filed by plaintiff retired employees against defendant city for breach of alleged agreements to keep plaintiffs on the city’s health insurance plan under the New Mexico Retiree Health Care Act and to reimburse plaintiffs for 75% of their health insurance premiums because plaintiffs filed suit four years after their claims accrued. However, to the extent that plaintiffs’ claimed entitlement to reimbursement amounts lower than 75%, which would not have begun to accrue until the city completely terminated the reimbursement payments a few months before plaintiffs’ filed suit, those claims were not barred by the statute of limitations. Beggs v. City of Portales, No. 31475, 2013 N.M. App. LEXIS 32 (N.M. Ct. App. Apr. 2, 2013), op. withdrawn, sub. op., 2013-NMCA-068, 305 P.3d 75, 2013 N.M. App. LEXIS 40 (N.M. Ct. App. 2013).