In its final vote of the 2024 session, the Senate “blazed” through House Bill 251 as substituted, sending the governor legislation to grant Smokey Bear a personalized license plate on his 80th birthday. The story behind the plate: The Library of Congress Blogs say that while the bear began as a fictional character, “in 1950, […]
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In the waning minutes of the 2024 legislative session, the Senate by voice vote concurred with the amended version of Senate Bill 239. The Lottery and Opportunity Scholarship Changes, sponsored by Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill (D-Catron, Grant and Socorro) and George Muñoz (D-Cibola, McKinley and San Juan), makes important changes to the scholarship requirements that
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The Senate voted 36-0 this morning to make charter school facility funding more predictable, sending House Bill 207 to the governor with unanimous support. As Sen. Antonio Maestas (D-Bernalillo) summed it up on the floor, the bill changes the “may” in statute to a “shall” because “bankers freak out on ‘may,’ so this makes it
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