While intentions are usually good, sometimes the results have detrimental or unintended consequences on business. Here are some of those bills that fortunately will not become law this year: Paid Family and Medical Leave Act – as mentioned above, the proposed program was unwieldy, unworkable and unmanageable. In addition to its obvious burden on small […]
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The Senate opened its last floor session of the 2024 session with a certificate ceremony for another senator who’s leaving the chamber. Sen Cliff Pirtle (R-Chaves, Eddy and Otero) is not seeking re-election. It was announced the 10-year veteran of the Senate will be opening Homestead Spirits, a distillery and restaurant in downtown Roswell. Senate
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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The $10.2 billion budget was developed by the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) with an eye on the future possibility that by the end of the decade, oil and gas production in New Mexico may flatten and begin a gradual decline. With the knowledge that there is no industry that can generate the same kind of
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