New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVI, Issue 21 / November 4, 2025

NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF RULEMAKING

The New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration (WCA) is providing Notice to terminate the rulemaking regarding the proposed amendment to Part 4 – Claims Resolution, specifically, 11.4.4.14(D) NMAC – (amending existing rule to establish a 90-day time limit after which the WCA clerk of the court shall no longer serve pleadings on attorneys of record following a case being settled or adjudged). The WCA has determined to terminate the rule making process regarding 11.4.4.14(D) NMAC following receipt of public comment which objected to the proposed amendment without substantial revision to the proposed language. The WCA did not believe such a substantial revision to the proposed rule should be undertaken without the benefit of public comment specifically directed at new amendatory language substantially different than what the WCA originally proposed. Part 4 had no other proposed rule revisions apart from 11.4.4.14(D) NMAC and, accordingly, complete rule termination regarding Part 4 is warranted.

Therefore, pursuant to Subsection C of Section 14-4-5, NMSA 1978, the rulemaking noticed on June 10, 2025 in the New Mexico Register (Volume XXXVI, issue 11) is hereby terminated.