Freedom Index 2016
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Action Date | Votes | Vote Rating | Comments |
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| HB107 | Reduced Tax Rate For Certain Oil & Gas Wells | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by reducing the severance tax rate on oil and natural gas obtained from "stripper" wells.
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| HB108 | Rural Infrastructure Tax Credit | Dead | 01/27/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating a "rural infrastructure tax credit" to "stimulate economic development."
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| HB11 | Cannabis Tax Act | Dead | 09/30/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Legalizes, regulates, and taxes marijuana for personal use.
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| HB110 | Public Works Minimum Wage Application | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Limits applicability of anti-taxpayer "prevailing wage" mandate to "Class A" counties.
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| HB114 | Nmsu Micro Grid & Renewables Research | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -1 |
Extends corporatism in the energy sector by spending $250,000 to support NMSU's Southwest Technology Development Institute "in expanding research and training in microgrids and renewables."
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| HB118 | Filmmaking Academy Pilot Program | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Perpetuates the state's failed subsidization of Hollywood by appropriating $250,000 to Santa Fe Community College for a "filmmaking academy pilot program."
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| HB12 | Limit Capital Gains Deductions | Dead | 09/30/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Increases taxes and hurts economic-development efforts by limiting the deduction that can be taken for capital gains to $1,000.
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| HB125 | Increase Minimum Wage | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -5 |
Raises the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2019 and indexes the wage to the "cost of living."
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| HB126 | Reduce Certain Income Tax Rates | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -5 |
Further complicates the income-tax structure by adding two new, higher brackets for the wealthiest filers in exchange for small cuts to middle- and low-wage workers.
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| HB14 | No Medical Marijuana Plant Limits | Dead | 09/30/2016 | 0 | 2 |
Removes the Department of Health's authority to restrict the number of plants a licensed medical cannabis producer may possess.
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| HB15 | Reduce Film Production Tax Credit Cap | Dead | 10/01/2016 | 0 | 2 |
Cuts film-production tax credit in half for the 2017 fiscal year.
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| HB154 | Increase Minimum Wage | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -5 |
Raises the minimum wage and mandates a cost-of-living adjustement.
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| HB158 | Additional Medicaid Coverages | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Worsens welfare dependency by expanding Medicaid to cover "family planning."
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| HB163 | Home Energy & Water Efficiency Tax Credit | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating the "Home Energy & Water Efficiency Tax Credit."
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| HB166 | Home Inspector Licensing Act | Dead | 02/08/2016 | 1 | -3 |
Worsens state's occupational-licensing problem by creating the "New Mexico Home Inspectors Board."
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| HB168 | Transportation Network Company Services Act | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/10/2016 | 3 | 4 |
Establishes regulatory certainty for ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft.
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| HB169 | Capital Gain Reinvestment Tax Credit | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating the "Capital Gain Reinvestment Income Tax Credit."
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| HB170 | Study Broadband Infrastructure Expansion | Dead | 01/25/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Meddles in private sector by appropriating $950,000 to study options for "a comprehensive, statewide broadband infrastructure plan."
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| HB173 | Web-based Capital Outlay Publication | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | 3 |
Requires online publication of capital projects and the names of legislators or the governor sponsoring each project.
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| HB174 | Suspension Of Some Property Tax Increases | Dead | 01/27/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Further complicates the tax code by permitting local governments to suspend property taxes for "commercial enterprises."
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| HB175 | Renewable Energy Tax Credit Eligibility | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Extends the micromanagement of the state's energy sector by changing the rules governing the "Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit."
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| HB179 | Patient Safe Staffing Act | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Micromanages hospital personnel by enacting the "Patient Safe Staffing Act."
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| HB191 | Dental Health Act Changes & Therapists | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Deregulates dentistry by creating a new category of practitioners, called dental therapists, and mandates that all students entering government schools show evidence of having had a dental examination.
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| HB199 | Motor Vehicle Tax Fund Distribution | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Devotes more funding to the state road fund by shifting 100 percent of the revenue from the motor-vehicle excise tax to the fund by July 1, 2019.
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| HB200 | Public Works Prevailing Wage & Projects | Dead | 02/02/2016 | 1 | 4 |
Reforms the prevailing-wage mandate in pro-taxpayer ways, including exempting projects and contracts for public roads and educational institutions.
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| HB206 | Design & Build Procurement For Some Projects | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/10/2016 | 2 | 3 |
Advances fiscal responsibility by permitting NMDOT to use the "design-build" method for road and highway projects which use federal funds.
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| HB207 | Equal Educational Access Scholarship Act | Dead | 01/27/2016 | 0 | 6 |
Expands school choice by creating the "Equal Educational Access Scholarship Act."
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| HB208 | Public Financing Of Legislative Races | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Further corrupts the democratic process by making candidates for state legislature eligible for taxpayer subsidies for campaign expenses.
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| HB211 | Employment Preemption | Dead | 01/29/2016 | 0 | 6 |
Establishes regulatory certainty by preempting local ordinances on wages, benefits, and scheduling.
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| HB212 | Federal Energy Employee Health Gross Receipts | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by expanding the GRT deduction for certain medical and healthcare services.
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| HB214 | National Work-oriented Assessment System | Dead | 01/25/2016 | 0 | 2 |
Appropriates $35,000 for the Workforce Solutions Department's "national reading and mathematics assessment system."
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| HB216 | Workforce Needs Analysis | Dead | 01/25/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Perpetuates the state's failed economic planning by appropriating $125,000 to develop and implement a "workforce gap forecasting model."
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| HB220 | Repeal Capital Gains Deduction | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Hikes taxes by repealing the deduction for capital gains.
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| HB221 | Early Childhood Educator Development | Dead | 01/25/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $2 million for "retention and professional development" of preschool workers.
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| HB225 | Historically Underutilized Businesses | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Micromanages the General Services Department by enacting the "Historically Underutilized and Disadvantaged Business Opportunity Act."
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| HB227 | Marketing To Attract Out-of-state Employers | Dead | 01/27/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Perpetuates New Mexico's failed economic-development strategy by appropriating $2 million for a "cooperative marketing program" to "attract out-of-state prospective employers to locate their businesses in the state."
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| HB255 | New Higher-income Tax Bracket | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Creates new, higher income-tax bracket for high earners.
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| HB259 | Consultant Disclosure Of Client Info | Dead | 02/09/2016 | 1 | 2 |
Requires government officials who are consultants and/or married to consultants to disclose the names and addresses of all clients paying more than $1,000 in fees.
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| HB26 | Solar market development tax credit changes | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by extending the "solar market development tax credit" until 2025.
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| HB264 | Car Race Purse Gross Receipts | Dead | 01/27/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating a GRT exemption for purses won at motor-vehicle racetracks.
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| HB272 | Motor Tax To Road Funds | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Devotes more funding to transportation by redistributing the motor-vehicle excise tax to State Road Fund (50 percent) and the county arterial program of the Local Governments Road Fund (50 percent).
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| HB274 | Doctor Copayment Gross Receipts | Dead | 01/25/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating a GRT deduction for copayment and deductibles paid to physicians, osteopaths, and podiatrists.
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| HB276 | Qualified Business Facility Rehab Tax Credit | Dead | 01/29/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by expanding the "Business Facility Rehabilitation Income Tax Credit."
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| HB278 | Public Pension Forfeiture Act | Dead | 02/03/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Promotes accountability by stripping government employees convicted of corruption of "all benefit payments" to be made under the Public Employees Retirement, Judicial Retirement, Magistrate Retirement, and Educational Retirement Acts.
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| HB282 | Gender Pay Equity Tax Credit | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Further complicates the tax code -- and perpetuates junk economics -- by creating the "Gender Pay Equity Income Tax Credit" and "Gender Pay Equity Corporate Income Credit."
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| HB283 | Unemployment Compensation Contribution Rates | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/10/2016 | 2 | 3 |
Offers employers some relief from unemployment-insurance taxes.
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| HB292 | Modify Personal Income Tax Brackets & Rates | Dead | 01/26/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Further complicates the income-tax structure by raising taxes on the wealthiest filers in exchange for cuts to middle- and low-wage workers.
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| HB299 | State-paid Day Care & Pre-k Gross Receipts | Dead | 01/26/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by enacting a GRT deduction for private, for-profit child care and pre-kindergarten service providers.
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| HB300 | Increase Cigarette Tax Rates | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Hikes the per-pack tax on cigarettes by $1.00 and imposes taxes on e-cigarettes.
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| HB301 | Archive Legislative Webcasts | Dead | 02/07/2016 | 1 | 2 |
Improves transparency by requiring that videos of all legislative meetings be archived online.
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| HB304 | Medicaid Family Planning & Pregnancy Coverage | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Worsens welfare dependency by expanding Medicaid to cover "family planning."
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| HB307 | Capital Outlay Reform Act | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Reforms the capital-outlay process by creating the Capital Projects Planning Council.
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| HB313 | Campaign Public Financing Changes | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Further corrupts the democratic process by making candidates for secretary of state eligible for taxpayer subsidies for campaign expenses.
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| HB319 | Clean-burning Vehicle Fuel Tax Credit | Dead | 01/30/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating the "Clean-Burning Motor Vehicle Fuel Equipment Income Tax Credit."
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| HB323 | Raise Minimum Wage | Dead | 01/25/2016 | 0 | -5 |
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 and indexes it to "the consumer price index for the western region for urban wage earners."
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| HB33 | Approval of certain projects by law | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/10/2016 | 2 | 1 |
Promotes accountability by requiring projects subsidized by the New Mexico Finance Authority to obtain legislative approval.
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| HB34 | Post-thanksgiving gross receipts deduction | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating a Thanksgiving-meal GRT deduction provided the restaurant had, "in the most recent five years ... an average business income ... of less than two million dollars ($2,000,000) per year."
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| HB38 | Criteria for disposition of public property | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | 2 |
Clarifies the law that permits government entities to dispose of property that is "worn out, unusable or obsolete to the extent that the item is no longer economical or safe for use."
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| HB39 | Employee leave for legislators | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | 3 |
Requires that legislators who are employed by "a political subdivision of the state" use "accrued annual or compensatory leave or leave without pay" on days that they attend "a meeting for which the legislator is eligible to receive per diem."
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| HB54 | Rural health tax credit rate & eligibility | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by making all health care practitioners eligible for the "Rural Health Care Practitioner Tax Credit."
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| HB63 | Workers' comp benefits & intoxication | Dead | 01/28/2016 | 1 | 4 |
Amends Workers' Compensation Act to reduce benefits for employees injured while drunk or on drugs.
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| HB76 | College Economic Development Reporting | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | 2 |
Requires universities and community colleges to "develop performance metrics" for revenue spent to "support economic development or entrepreneurship."
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| HB79 | Working Families Tax Credit & Gains Deduction | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by expanding the "Working Families Tax Credit."
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| HJR10 | Permanent Funds For Early Childhood, Ca | Dead | 01/26/2016 | 0 | -6 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to devote permanent-fund revenue to "early childhood education services administered by the state."
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| HJR11 | Limit Certain Interest Rates, Ca | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to limit interest rates to 36 percent or less per year.
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| HJR19 | Constitutional Convention For Corporations | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to petition Congress for a convention of the states ... to discuss a constitutional amendment to limit corporate personhood.
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| HJR3 | Salary For State Legislators, Ca | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to pay legislators an annual salary equal to the state's median household income.
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| HJR5 | Independent Ethics Commission, Ca | Dead | 02/02/2016 | 1 | 4 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to establish an independent ethics commission to provide oversight of the executive and legislative branches.
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| HR1 | Archive House Webcasting | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/03/2016 | 1 | 3 |
Proposes to amend rules of the House to archive video and audio of House proceedings.
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| SB1 | Combined Tax Reporting For Unitary Corps | Dead | 09/30/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Complicates the tax code by mandating "combined reporting" for businesses subject to the corporate income tax.
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| SB10 | School District Cash Balances | Dead | 09/30/2016 | 1 | 2 |
Allows the secretary of the Public Education Department to reduce funding to government schools by $25 million.
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| SB10 | Resident business set-aside act | Dead | 02/02/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Promotes fiscal irresponsibility by mandating that the state set aside 33 percent of its contracts for resident businesses.
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| SB104 | Renewable Energy Tax Credit Eligibility | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Intensifies micromanagement of the energy sector and further complicates the tax code by expanding the renewable energy production tax credit.
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| SB105 | Expedited Professional Licensure | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2016 | 2 | 3 |
Requires agencies, boards, and commissions to process professional-license applications valid in other U.S. jurisdiction as soon as practicable.
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| SB107 | Cyfd Community Home Donation Tax Credit | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by establishing a refundable income-tax credit for donations to entities that operate facilities licensed by the Children, Youth and Families Department as community homes.
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| SB11 | Industrial Hemp Research | Dead | 09/30/2016 | 1 | 2 |
Authorizes the Department of Agriculture "to provide for the growing of industrial hemp for research and development purposes."
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| SB114 | Adjunct Secondary Instructors Act | Dead | 01/26/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Improves teacher shortage by permitting professionals with expertise in a particular subject matter to teach in government schools.
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| SB124 | State Ethics Commission Act | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Creates a state ethics commission to oversee government officials, contractors, and lobbyists.
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| SB13 | Solar market development tax credit changes | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by extending the "solar market development tax credit" until 2025.
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| SB131 | Job Creation Program Measurement | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | 1 |
Appropriates $150,000 to standardize the terms, measures, and reporting protocols for "job-creation programs."
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| SB133 | Small Business Investment Tax Credit | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating the "Small Business Investment Income Tax Credit."
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| SB142 | Snap Waiver | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Requires the Secretary of Human Services to "seek and implement a federal waiver of the time limit on adults participating in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program."
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| SB145 | Tax Reform | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | 6 |
Dramatically reforms the tax code to make both the GRT and income tax simpler, and eliminates many taxes altogether, including the corporate and estate taxes.
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| SB147 | Spaceport Liquor License | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/04/2016 | 2 | -2 |
Offers a lifeline to the taxpayer-boondoggle "Spaceport America" by permitting it to obtain a liquor license.
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| SB151 | High-wage Jobs Tax Credit Eligibility | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by reducing the wage threshold at which jobs qualify for the "High Wage Jobs Tax Credit."
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| SB152 | Minimum Salary For Certain School Personnel | Dead | 01/29/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Hikes the minimum wage for government-school district cafeteria staff and school bus drivers to $15 per hour.
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| SB157 | Limit Spaceport Bond Issuance & Uses | Dead | 01/28/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Promotes fiscal responsibility by halting the diversion of tax revenue to cover operating expenses at "Spaceport America."
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| SB16 | Uniformed service retiree tax credit | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating an income-tax deduction for retired veterans and their spouses.
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| SB163 | Segregated Sale Of Growlers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/03/2016 | 2 | 2 |
Allows liquor-license holders with "package rights" to fill and sell growlers.
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| SB178 | Fine Cigar Tax Rate | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by taking "fine cigars" at a different rate than normal cigars.
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| SB184 | Early Childhood Programs | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Appropriates $10 million to the Public Education Department for trendy, but ineffective, "early childhood programs."
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| SB187 | Local Economic Development Act Projects | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Perpetuates the state's failed system of corporate welfare by appropriating $50 million to the Economic Development Department for projects funded by the Local Economic Development Act.
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| SB191 | Opioid Abuse Prevention & Assisted Treatment | Dead | 02/02/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further micromanages healthcare by requiring all "insurance plans and policies cover at least one abuse-deterrent opioid for each opioid analgesic active ingredient."
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| SB193 | Ski Area Alcoholic Beverage Sales | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/01/2016 | 2 | 2 |
Permits the sale of alcoholic beverages in both the outdoor and indoor areas of ski resorts.
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| SB199 | Cultural Property Tax Credit Provisions | Dead | 01/22/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by expanding the "Cultural Property Income Tax Credit Act."
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| SB206 | Frontier Community Tax Credits | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating the "Frontier Community Investment Income Tax Credit."
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| SB214 | Workers' Comp Benefits & Intoxication | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2016 | 2 | 4 |
Amends Workers' Compensation Act to reduce benefits for employees injured while drunk or on drugs.
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| SB215 | Design & Build Procurement For Some Projects | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2016 | 2 | 3 |
Advances fiscal responsibility by permitting NMDOT to use the "design-build" method for road and highway projects which use federal funds.
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| SB217 | Dental Health Act Changes & Therapists | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Deregulates dentistry by creating a new category of practitioners, called dental therapists, and mandates that all students entering government schools show evidence of having had a dental examination.
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| SB221 | Marketing To Attract Out-of-state Employers | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Perpetuates New Mexico's failed economic-development strategy by appropriating $2 million for a "cooperative marketing program" to "attract out-of-state prospective employers to locate their businesses in the state."
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| SB225 | Livable Home Tax Credit | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating a "livable home income tax credit" to be applied to "qualifying costs to retrofit or renovate an existing residence to improve accessibility."
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| SB236 | State Employee Minimum Wage | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Mandates a $10.10-an-hour minimum wage for every "state employee and every person regularly employed at a state educational institution."
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| SB238 | Film Production Tax Credit For Distribution | Dead | 02/04/2016 | 1 | -4 |
Perpetuates the state's failed subsidization of Hollywood as a tool for "economic development" by creating a new credit for production companies that provide distribution services.
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| SB247 | Broadband Telecomm Facility Gross Receipts | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating a GRT deduction for "the value of components for broadband telecommunications network facilities and for construction services to construct broadband telecommunications network facilities."
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| SB251 | Increase Gas & Special Fuel Tax | Dead | 02/03/2016 | 0 | -5 |
Hikes the gasoline and special-fuels taxes by 5 cents each.
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| SB252 | Delay Corporate Income Tax Reductions | Dead | 01/25/2016 | 0 | -5 |
Delays the implementation of planned cuts in the corporate tax.
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| SB254 | Transportation Network Company Services Act | Dead | 02/08/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Establishes regulatory certainty for ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft.
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| SB263 | Opioid Prescription Monitoring | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/08/2016 | 2 | -2 |
Requires physicians to "obtain and review a report from the state's prescription monitoring program" before prescribing opioids "for the first time to a patient."
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| SB264 | Local Beer & Wine Delivery Licenses | Dead | 01/26/2016 | 0 | 3 |
Permits local-option districts to "approve the issuance of beer and wine delivery licenses ... by holding an election on the question."
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| SB268 | Local Project Money To Small Businesses | Dead | 02/02/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Creates the "Local Economic Development Fund" to "carry out the purposes of the Local Economic Development Act to projects that directly support small businesses."
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| SB269 | Employee Preference Act | Dead | 01/26/2016 | 0 | 8 |
Promotes economic development by making New Mexico a right-to-work state.
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| SB276 | Car Tax For Road Projects & Projects Fund | Dead | 01/26/2016 | 0 | -4 |
"Temporarily" hikes the motor-vehicle excise tax from 3 percent to 5 percent.
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| SB281 | Repeal Food Gross Receipts Deduction | Dead | 01/28/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Imposes a net tax increase by repealing the GRT's applicability to groceries but reducing its rate by only a eighth of a percentage point.
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| SB284 | Increase Gas Tax & Create New Funds | Dead | 02/03/2016 | 0 | -6 |
Significantly hikes the gasoline and special-fuels taxes.
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| SB288 | Increase School Hours & Days | Dead | 01/26/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Increases the minimum instructional hours and days for students in government schools between kindergarten and sixth grade.
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| SB294 | Private Hunting Land Sales Gross Receipts | Dead | 02/03/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating a GRT exemption for the sale of access to private lands for hunting and fishing.
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| SB31 | Technology readiness gross receipts credit | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating the "Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit."
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| SB33 | Capital outlay planning & monitoring act | Dead | 02/02/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Reforms the capital-outlay process by creating the Capital Outlay Planning Council.
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| SB34 | Tax rate differential for certain oil | Dead | 02/02/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by lightening the severance tax for enhanced oil recovery projects that use carbon dioxide.
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| SB4 | Taxation of nicotine products | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Imposes a tax on e-cigarettes and requires that vendors be registered with the state.
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| SB41 | Create state inspector general office | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Establishes an independent Office of Inspector General to investigate state government.
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| SB48 | Web-based Capital Outlay Publication | Dead | 01/25/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Increases transparency by establishing a "user-friendly" website with a "searchable listing of capital projects ... and the amount of the allocation designated by each legislator and the governor."
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| SB5 | Delay Tax Changes | Dead | 09/30/2016 | 1 | -3 |
Delays planned reductions in the tax rates on corporate income.
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| SB69 | Campaign Finance Bureau & Bank | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Creates a state-run bank to "provide ... services to all candidates, political committees and other persons who establish or maintain campaign fund accounts ... pursuant to the provisions of the Campaign Reporting Act."
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| SB7 | Motor Vehicle Tax To Road Fund Over 4 Years | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | 4 |
Devotes more funding to the state road fund by shifting 100 percent of the revenue from the motor-vehicle excise tax to the fund by July 1, 2019.
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| SB71 | Biodiesel Requirements In Diesel Fuel | Dead | 01/23/2016 | 0 | 3 |
Eliminates the mandate that motor-vehicle diesel sold in the state contain 5 percent biodiesel.
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| SB77 | Increase Tobacco Products Tax | Dead | 01/24/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Hikes and expands taxes on tobacco products and diverts the revenue to "early childhood education."
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| SB82 | Expand Nm-grown Produce In School Lunches | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Perpetuates the state's failed policy of autarky by expanding the program that provides locally grown fruits and vegetables to government schools.
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| SB85 | Review Policies For Institutional Racism | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Requires that each state agency "review its policies and practices to ensure that it does not contribute to institutional racism."
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| SB9 | Reduce Certain Legislative Appropriations | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 10/01/2016 | 2 | 4 |
Reduces spending by many state agencies by 5 percent.
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| SB90 | Delay Corporate Income Tax Rate Reduction | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Delays the implementation of planned cuts in the corporate tax.
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| SB92 | Rapid Workforce Development Act | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/10/2016 | 2 | -2 |
Perpetuates unsound economic-development policies by creating the "rapid workforce development fund."
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| SB93 | Energy Employee Health Program Gross Receipts | Dead | 01/21/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Further complicates the tax code by creating a GRT deduction for medical expenses paid to "a home health agency" by beneficiaries of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.
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| SB94 | Local Option District Spirit Sales Elections | Dead | 01/19/2016 | 0 | 2 |
Allows restaurant licensees to serve New Mexico-produced distilled spirits in addition to beer and wine, given voter approval.
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| SJR12 | Constitutional Convention For Corporations | Dead | 02/05/2016 | 0 | -2 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to petition Congress for a convention of the states ... to discuss a constitutional amendment to limit corporate personhood.
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| SJR14 | Legislatively Limit Property Value Raises, Ca | Dead | 01/29/2016 | 1 | -2 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to give legislators the power to permit local governments to abate property taxes on commercial projects located in "economic development zones" and "revitalization zones."
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| SJR17 | Funding For Longer School Days & Years, Ca | Dead | 02/08/2016 | 0 | -3 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to fund longer school days and years.
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| SJR18 | State Minimum Wage, Ca | Dead | 02/03/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Proposes constitutional amendment for an initial cost-of-living increase to the minimum wage effective July 1, 2017, and increases effective January 1 every year thereafter.
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| SJR2 | Permanent funds for childhood education, ca | Dead | 01/30/2016 | 0 | -6 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to devote permanent-fund revenue to "early childhood education services administered by the state."
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| SJR22 | 10-year Fuel Tax Raise For Roads, Ca | Dead | 02/08/2016 | 0 | -4 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to hike the gasoline and diesel taxes by five cents per gallon each over a period of 10 years.
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| SJR3 | Permanent fund annual distributions, ca | Dead | 02/02/2016 | 1 | -6 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to devote permanent-fund revenue to "early childhood education services administered by the state."
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| SJR5 | Use & Tax Of Marijuana & Revenue , Ca | Dead | 02/04/2016 | 1 | 3 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to legalize possession and personal use of marijuana for persons 21 years of age and older.
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| SJR6 | Use, Regulation, Sale & Tax Of Marijuana, Ca | Dead | 01/20/2016 | 0 | 3 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to legalize possession and personal use of marijuana for persons 21 years of age and older.
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