N.M. Stat. § 12-8A-5
Effect on other laws.
Nothing in the Governmental Dispute Prevention and Resolution Act and rules,
agreements and procedures developed pursuant to that act:
A. limits other dispute prevention or resolution procedures available to an agency;
B. denies a person a right granted under federal or other state law, including a right
to an administrative or judicial hearing;
C. waives immunity from suit or affects a waiver of immunity from suit contained in
any other law;
D. waives immunity granted under the eleventh amendment to the constitution of
the United States;
E. authorizes or prohibits binding arbitration as a method of alternative dispute
resolution when mutually agreed to in writing by the interested parties;
F. authorizes or requires an agency to take any action that is inconsistent or
contrary to any law or rule;
G. authorizes or requires any meeting, otherwise required to be open to the public,
to be closed;
H. authorizes or requires any record, otherwise open to public inspection, to be
sealed; or
I. shall be interpreted to create an additional layer of administrative process or to
discourage or impede the use of alternative dispute resolution.