A. For applicants or persons who have been assigned a social security number, the state shall have and use procedures requiring that the social security number of any:
(1) applicant for a professional license, commercial driver's license or occupational license be recorded on the application;
(2) applicant for a marriage license be collected and placed in the records maintained by the county clerk;
(3) person who is subject to a divorce decree, support order or paternity determination or acknowledgment be placed in the records relating to the matter; and
(4) person who has died be placed in the records relating to the death and be recorded on the death certificate.
B. The collection and use of social security numbers shall be made available to the human services department for use in child support enforcement.
History: Laws 1997, ch. 237, § 15; 2013, ch. 144, § 1.
The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, required counties to obtain social security numbers from applicants for marriage licenses; in Subsection A, in the introductory sentence, at the beginning of the sentence, added "For applicants or persons who have been assigned a social security number", in Paragraph (1), after "occupational license", deleted "or marriage license", and added Paragraph (2); and in Subsection B, after "made available to the" deleted "state Title IV-D agency" and added "human services department".
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 27 - Public Assistance
Article 1 - General Provisions
Section 27-1-2 - Powers of human services department.
Section 27-1-3 - Activities of human services department.
Section 27-1-3.1 - Acute care bed usage; funding authorization.
Section 27-1-4 - Status of assistance payments.
Section 27-1-5 to 27-1-7 - Repealed.
Section 27-1-8 - State case registry.
Section 27-1-9 - Locator information from interstate networks.
Section 27-1-11 - Expedited procedure.
Section 27-1-12 - Work requirement for persons owing past-due child support.
Section 27-1-13 - Financial institution data matches.