Committee backs amendment to require SAR notification, include tribes in Search and Rescue Act
The Senate Indian Rural Cultural Affairs Committee voted 4-0 to approve an amended bill that creates a clear definition of a "SAR emergency," requires dispatch notification to the State SAR resource officer, and explicitly includes federally recognized Indian nations, tribes and Pueblos in the New Mexico Search and Rescue Act.
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The Senate Indian Rural Cultural Affairs Committee voted to give a do-pass recommendation, as amended, to Senate Bill 353, which adds a formal definition of a "SAR emergency," requires dispatchers to notify the state Search and Rescue (SAR) resource officer when those criteria are met, and inserts "federally recognized Indian nations, tribes, and Pueblos" into several jurisdictional references in the statute.
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