When council rules designate the review of a case, a substitute care review board shall conduct the review in accordance with the provisions of the Children's Code and the Abuse and Neglect Act [Chapter 32A, Article 4 NMSA 1978] and council rules. The designated substitute care review board shall submit a report to the court for each case that it reviews. The substitute care review board shall give the parties in a children's court case under substitute care review board review notice of a substitute care review board meeting related to that case and afford the parties an opportunity to participate fully in the substitute care review board meeting.

History: 1978 Comp., § 32A-8-6, enacted by Laws 1993, ch. 77, § 208; 2016, ch. 60, § 8.

Compiler's note. — Laws 1993, ch. 77, § 119, enacted as 32-4-23 NMSA 1978, was recompiled as 32A-4-25 NMSA 1978 by the compiler. See note at the beginning of this article.

The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, required that when the substitute care advisory council requires a substitute care review board to review a case, that the review be conducted in accordance with the Children's Code and the Abuse and Neglect Act and the council's rules; in the catchline, deleted "Citizen" and added "Substitute care", and after "reviews of", deleted "dispositional judgments" and added "cases"; in former Subsection A, deleted the subsection designation and deleted "Prior to any judicial review by the court pursuant to Section 32A-4-23 NMSA 1978, the local substitute care review board shall review any dispositional order or the continuation of the order and the department's progress report on the child and submit a report to the court. The", and added the next two sentences and "The substitute care review board shall give the", after "parties in", deleted "the" and added "a", after "children's court", deleted "proceedings shall be given prior" and added "case under substitute care review board review", after "notice of", deleted "the" and added "a substitute care", after "review board meeting", added "related to that case", after "and", deleted "be afforded" and added "afford", after "the", added "parties an", and after "participate fully in the", added "substitute care review board"; and deleted former Subsection B.