Freedom Index 2015
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Action Date | Votes | Vote Rating | Comments |
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| HB106 | Concealed carry fingerprints & refreshers | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 1 | 2 |
Loosens restrictions imposed by the Concealed Handgun Carry Act.
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| HB109 | Transmission line corridors | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Provide for "location of transmission lines within designated, predetermined corridors."
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| HB11 | Sunday & christmas day alcohol sales | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Eliminates restrictions on alcohol sales on Christmas and Sundays.
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| HB110 | New tax bracket & income tax rates | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Raises taxes for high income taxpayers and reduces taxes for low-income taxpayers.
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| HB111 | Shared renewable energy facility operations | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Further micromanages New Mexico's electrical grid.
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| HB113 | Energy-efficient homes tax credit | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates tax credit to "encourage New Mexico taxpayers to build energy efficient homes and to purchase foreclosed homes renovated to high-efficiency standards."
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| HB114 | No false statements to environment dept. | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Dramatically increase penalties and defines conditions for misstatements to New Mexico Environment Department.
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| HB12 | Water budget rate structures | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Sets up an onerous system of water regulations.
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| HB137 | Reduce income tax & create new brackets | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -8 |
Increase taxes on personal income.
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| HB138 | Increase minimum wage | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Phases in minimum wage mandate rate increase to $10.10 an hour
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| HB14 | Nmsu smart & micro grid technology | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $250,000 for "smart grid, micro grid and renewable energy development."
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| HB148 | No smoking in cars with minors | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Bans smoking in cars with children.
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| HB155 | Lobbyist employer registration | Passed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Increases transparency of lobbying activities at the legislature.
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| HB158 | Gross receipts rate & deductions | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Repeals GRT exemptions and deductions in exchange for reducing the state GRT rate from 5.125 percent to 5.025 percent.
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| HB16 | Surtax on certain corporations | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Levies a 1% surtax on the net incomes of certain corporations.
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| HB160 | Cannabis revenue & freedom act | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 4 |
Creates a regulatory system "for the legal production, processing and sale ... of industrial hemp, marijuana and marijuana products."
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| HB177 | Common core implementation standards | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Establishes implementation standards for "Common Core."
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| HB179 | Severance fund investment in renewable energy | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
"Invests" at least 1 percent of the severance tax permanent fund in "green" power.
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| HB18 | Separate tax deductions & exemptions | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Adds significant new burdens on businesses in terms of tax collection.
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| HB180 | Minimum wage act "employee" definitions | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Adds 18-year-olds to the list of workers covered by the state minimum wage.
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| HB187 | Public education nepotism rule waiver | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Waives nepotism rule for a family member of a school board member if superintendent can show "the family member is qualified for the position."
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| HB189 | Concealed carry license length & refreshers | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | 2 |
Loosens restrictions imposed by the Concealed Handgun Carry Act.
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| HB199 | Oil & gas operation jurisdiction | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Limits authority over oil and gas operations to municipalities and prohibits counties from adopting ordinances that restrict oil and gas activities.
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| HB20 | Raise minimum wage | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Raises the minimum wage to $10.10.
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| HB201 | Add species to game fish | Passed | 03/17/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Adds striped bass and tilapia to the list of regulated fish, to promote the "aquaponics" industry.
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| HB205 | Public financing of legislative races | Dead | 02/06/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Enables state legislators in contested primary and general elections to obtain taxpayer subsidies.
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| HB21 | Phased-in supplemental income tax | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Levies a surcharge on the incomes of New Mexico taxpayers.
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| HB210 | Pollution control equipment gross receipts | Dead | 02/03/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Exempt from the GRT "receipts from the sale of pollution-control equipment."
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| HB219 | Out-of-state event gross receipts | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Exempts "receipts from the performance of or admissions to recreational, athletic, or entertainment services that occur out of state" from the GRT.
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| HB225 | Innovation & entrepreneurship commission | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Creates the "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Commission" within the Economic Development Department.
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| HB226 | Small business support work group | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Appropriates $50,000 to the Legislative Council Service for the "small business support work group."
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| HB227 | Combine cultural affairs & tourism depts. | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 1 |
Combines the tourism and cultural-affairs departments.
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| HB23 | Nonprofit & public sector collaboration group | Dead | 01/30/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Establishes a "nonprofit and public sector collaboration work group."
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| HB230 | Tech jobs & research & development tax credit | Dead | 01/28/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Amends the Technology Jobs Tax Credit Act to create the "Technology Jobs and Research and Development Tax Credit Act."
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| HB231 | Expand nm-grown produce in school lunches | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $160,000 to expand locally grown produce in government-school lunches.
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| HB235 | Use of public water & landowner protection | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 1 | 3 |
Requires written consent by landowners in order to walk or wade in streams.
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| HB238 | Workers' comp benefits & intoxication | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 1 | 3 |
Empowers workers' compensation judges to reduce benefits from 35 percent to 85 percent for workers who willfully or intentionally cause their own injuries.
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| HB239 | Repeal capital gains from net income | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Repeals deduction from net income of 50 percent of capital gains.
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| HB24 | Loan interest rate caps | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Caps the interest rates charged by lenders operating in New Mexico.
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| HB241 | Public officials as lobbyists | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 1 | 2 |
Prohibit former PRC commissioners, legislators, and cabinet secretaries from lobbying work "for a period of calendar two years following the end of their service."
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| HB242 | Renewable energy tax credit changes | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Expands the "cap on the credit for the amount of electricity that may be produced by qualified energy generators."
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| HB243 | Liquor licenses & definitions | Passed | 03/26/2015 | 2 | 3 |
Expands the freedoms of wineries and breweries.
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| HB25 | Medicaid infant home visiting services | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Establishes a new home visiting program to provide home visiting services for infants who are born to Medicaid recipients.
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| HB257 | Election contributions by certain contractors | Dead | 02/10/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Bans prospective state contractors from "bundling contributions to or sponsoring or hosting a fundraiser" for candidates who have "authority over a state agency that is soliciting a contract to which the prospective state contractor responds."
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| HB259 | Certain physician services gross receipts | Dead | 02/06/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Broadens "the types of receipts that may be deducted from gross receipts for commercial contract and Medicare part C services provided by a physician, osteopathic physician or podiatrist."
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| HB261 | Angel investment credit minimum investments | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Expands the "Angel Investment Credit."
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| HB262 | Gas tax & road projects | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Increases the gas tax from $0.17 per gallon to $0.19 per gallon and the diesel tax from $0.21 to $0.23 per gallon beginning in FY16, and indexes both to inflation.
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| HB263 | Geothermal renewable energy certificates | Passed | 03/17/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Allows "Renewable Energy Certificates" to be used by "rural electric distribution cooperatives for thermal energy originating from geothermal energy sources."
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| HB264 | Balanced budget compact | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Adds New Mexico to the list of states pressing for a federal balanced-budget amendment.
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| HB27 | Employment of former prc employees | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | 2 |
Increases regulations on former Public Regulation Commission personnel.
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| HB272 | Transportation network company services act | Dead | 03/16/2015 | 1 | 4 |
Advances the process for regulating ride-sharing services.
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| HB275 | Separate reporting of tax expenditures | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Requires "all taxpayers who reduce tax liabilities by taking advantage of a tax expenditure to separately report that tax expenditure."
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| HB278 | Campaign finance disclosure | Dead | 03/05/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Regulates the free speech of independent organizations engaged in election communications.
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| HB279 | Reduce corporate income tax rate | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Incrementally reduces the corporate tax rate.
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| HB28 | Small business development fund act | Dead | 01/28/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Appropriates $100,000,000 from the Permanent Fund to fund a politically-managed small business development fund.
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| HB291 | Nm federal land management study commission | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Creates 17-member New Mexico Federal Land Management Study to examine options to transfer federal lands to the state.
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| HB296 | Solar energy installation lease tax credit | Vetoed | 03/26/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Extends the "solar market development tax credit" for homes and small businesses "by allowing leased systems access to the credit."
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| HB299 | Public-private partnership act | Dead | 03/05/2015 | 1 | 3 |
Allows state and local governments to partner with the private sector for schools, hospitals, recreational facilities, parking lots, roads, habitat restoration, dams, pipelines, transmission lines, etc.
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| HB304 | Statewide broadband implementation | Dead | 02/03/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $300,000 for implementation of a statewide broadband system.
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| HB305 | Economic development cooperative marketing | Dead | 02/17/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $2 million "for a cooperative marketing program that provides matching funds to local
economic development organizations to increase business recruitment."
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| HB306 | Business recruitment & expansion | Dead | 02/17/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $500,000 "for the Economic Development Corporation ... to expand its marketing and prospect-development efforts."
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| HB307 | Tourism marketing & promotion | Dead | 02/17/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $3.5 million "to the Tourism Department to expand marketing and promotion of New Mexico as a tourist destination."
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| HB311 | Work force needs analysis | Dead | 02/19/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $125,000 to the Higher Education Department "to develop and implement a workforce gap forecasting model."
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| HB312 | Local economic development act implementation | Dead | 02/19/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $50 million "for the purpose of funding projects pursuant to the Local Economic Development Act."
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| HB313 | Economic development grant fund | Dead | 02/19/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $4.5 million "to implement the provisions of the Economic Development Grant Act."
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| HB314 | Create local economic development fund | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Creates a "local economic development fund."
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| HB316 | Professional golf tournament | Dead | 02/26/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $1.5 million to lure a professional golf tournament to the state.
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| HB321 | Economic development project population limit | Dead | 03/19/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Increases the population limit for communities eligible to receive funding
under the Local Economic Development Act.
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| HB333 | Equal opportunity scholarship & tax credits | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | 6 |
Establishes opportunity scholarships for low-income pupils.
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| HB337 | Rural infrastructure tax credit | Dead | 02/17/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates the "Rural Infrastructure Tax Credit" and limits it to $10 million per calender year.
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| HB339 | Small brewer & winegrower reciprocity | Vetoed | 03/31/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Allows small distillers and small brewers "to operate three off-premise locations."
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| HB347 | Local business opportunity fund | Dead | 01/28/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $5 million to create the "local business opportunity fund."
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| HB349 | Dental health act changes & therapists | Dead | 03/16/2015 | 1 | 2 |
Establishes a new dental provider entitled, “dental therapist,” providing for licensure
and scope of practice, supervisory requirements and agreement guidelines with a
sponsoring dentist in order to practice as a dental therapist.
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| HB351 | Unreimbursed medical expense tax deduction | Dead | 03/16/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Creates an income-tax deduction "for certain unreimbursed or uncompensated medical care expenses."
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| HB353 | Public employee salary increase | Dead | 02/20/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $14.5 million for raises to state bureaucrats.
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| HB357 | Agricultural hemp act | Dead | 01/28/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Authorizes "industrial hemp production and possession and commerce in industrial hemp commodities."
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| HB358 | Small business income tax deduction | Dead | 01/28/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates an income-tax deduction "for a business with annual business income less than $350,000 and that employs at least one full-time equivalent employee."
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| HB36 | Loan interest rate caps | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Caps interest rates at 36 percent for loans made within New Mexico.
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| HB360 | Increase minimum wage & annual increases | Dead | 01/28/2015 | 0 | -7 |
Phases in minimum-wage increase from $7.50 to $15.00 over three years.
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| HB366 | Oil & gas state preemption | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 1 | 4 |
Expressly declares the state's exclusive authority over oil and and gas.
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| HB368 | Vending machine food gross receipts | Dead | 01/29/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Exempts from the GRT "food, as defined by the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program ... from a coin-operated vending machine owned by a ... business that has a total gross annual revenue of less than $2 million."
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| HB37 | Pregnant worker accommodation act | Dead | 02/05/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Creates a new set of regulations around hiring and termination of pregnant workers.
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| HB378 | Require oral public comment at meetings | Dead | 03/31/2015 | 1 | 2 |
Requires that "a public body permit oral public comment at any meeting governed by the [Open Meeting Act], before final action is taken."
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| HB392 | Audio & video stream of public body meetings | Dead | 02/27/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Requires "public bodies" to transmit meetings via the internet. Exempts small municipalities, non-class A counties, and school districts.
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| HB40 | Electric vehicle income tax credit | Dead | 02/17/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates $2,500 income tax credit for purchase of electric vehicles.
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| HB402 | Nm small business development center | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $850,000 for the New Mexico small business development center at Santa Fe Community College.
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| HB409 | Pregnant worker accommodation act | Dead | 03/05/2015 | 1 | -3 |
Mandates "reasonable accommodations" for pregnant employees.
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| HB41 | School grade promotion & retention | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 1 | 3 |
Ends social promotion of 3rd graders who cannot read and makes provisions for intervention and remediation.
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| HB414 | Statewide food infrastructure | Dead | 03/03/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $1.4 million to subsidize "agricultural and food entrepreneurs" to create "a statewide food
infrastructure."
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| HB422 | State agency contract severance pay | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Restricts severance pay provisions in state employment contracts.
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| HB425 | Limit certain loan fees & charges | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Limits fees and charges for short-term loans.
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| HB429 | Lottery scholarships for home school | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | 4 |
Allows homeschooled students access to the Lottery Tuition Fund.
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| HB43 | Penalties for dealing food stamps | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 1 | 4 |
Increases penalties for illegal trade in food stamps.
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| HB44 | Firearm transfer act | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -6 |
Places restrictions and requirements on the transfer of firearms.
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| HB441 | Taos ski valley bond sale | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/31/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Authorizes the Village of Taos Ski Valley Tax Increment Development District to issue up to $44 million in tax-exempt bonds.
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| HB443 | Temp licensure for health & vet care | Dead | 02/03/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Permits temporary licensing of out-of-state doctors and vets conducting charity work.
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| HB444 | School contributions tax credit | Dead | 02/03/2015 | 0 | 6 |
Establishes a tax credit (up to $1,000) for contributions to educational scholarships or tuition grants.
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| HB445 | Reduce renewable portfolio standards | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | 4 |
Reduces state mandate for politically correct electricity from 20 percent to 15 percent.
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| HB450 | Solo-worker job creation | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $500,000 for the "solo-worker program."
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| HB451 | Increase number & quality of pre-k programs | Dead | 02/03/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Expands pre-k programs.
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| HB452 | Woody biomass job creation | Dead | 02/19/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $250,000 "to advance opportunities for entrepreneurs to utilize woody biomass generated from forest restoration."
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| HB454 | Hydrogen fuel production tax credit | Dead | 02/10/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates the "hydrogen fuel production tax credit."
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| HB465 | Win with wellness school project | Dead | 02/03/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates the "Win With Wellness" pilot project to "develop and implement a wellness curriculum in public schools."
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| HB482 | Reduce some unemployment benefits | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | 4 |
Reforms unemployment benefits to restore solvency to the UI trust fund and bring New Mexico more in line with other states' formulas.
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| HB489 | Internet wine sales | Passed | 03/31/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Permits vintners to take orders via the Internet, "whether the financial transaction related to the order is administered by a licensee or a licensee's agent."
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| HB495 | Corporate tax for preschool programs | Dead | 02/05/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Imposes a "corporate low wage tax" to fund preschool.
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| HB498 | State preemption of wage & leave laws | Dead | 02/05/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Preempts local regulation of wages and leave policies.
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| HB502 | Off-highway vehicle operation & fees | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Loosens regulations on off-road vehicles.
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| HB517 | Historically underutilized businesses | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 1 | -3 |
Promotes "full and equal business opportunities for all" by "encouraging and setting goals for the use of
historically underutilized businesses by state agencies."
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| HB537 | Gov't employee political activity | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Bans government employees from coercing other government employees into voting for or contributing to a candidate; bans the use of public resources for political purposes.
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| HB54 | Anesthesiology assistant definitions | Passed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | 3 |
Amends the Anesthesiologist Assistant Act by changing the definition of Anesthesiologist Assistant (AA) and removing the provisions which require, for the purposes of this act, that AAs practice only if they are employed by the University of New Mexico.
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| HB540 | New high-income tax bracket | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Raises top income-tax rate.
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| HB541 | Early childhood provider benefit incentives | Dead | 02/26/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Expands pre-k programs.
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| HB55 | Public works project wage calculations | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | 4 |
Repeals certain calculations under New Mexico's "Davis-Bacon" prevailing wage law, which arbitrarily sets above-market wage rates on public works projects.
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| HB551 | Home inspector licensing act | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Requires home inspectors to be licensed.
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| HB555 | Early childhood educator scholarship fund | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Creates the "early childhood educator scholarship fund."
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| HB560 | Forfeiture procedures & reporting | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/31/2015 | 2 | 6 |
Reforms asset-forfeiture procedures.
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| HB58 | Increase gas tax for state road fund | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Increases New Mexico's gas tax by one penny over the next five years from 17 cent to 22 cents.
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| HB66 | Investment in nm tech collaborative companies | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Requires the State Investment Council to invest at least 0.25 percent of the Severance Tax Permanent Fund "in private equity funds ... approved by the Technology Research Collaborative."
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| HB68 | Filmmaking academy pilot program | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $300,000 for a pilot program for a "publicly-funded, conservatory-style, accredited film academy."
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| HB70 | Extend solar market development tax credit | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Provides for solar tax credits of up to $9,000 per house.
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| HB75 | Employee preference act | Dead | 02/25/2015 | 2 | 7 |
Makes New Mexico a right-to-work state and increases the minimum wage by 50 cents to $8.00 an hour.
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| HB81 | Patient safe staffing act | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Increases state control and management of staffing at hospitals.
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| HB82 | School academic & enrichment programs | Dead | 02/03/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Increases spending on after-school programs.
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| HB90 | Nutrition & dietetics board sunset date | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Puts off the sunset date for the Nutrition and Dietetics Board.
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| HB93 | Farmers' market double up food bucks program | Dead | 01/28/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Appropriates $400,000 to increase the purchasing power of food stamps used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets.
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| HB94 | U.s. dept. of defense energy gross receipts | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Establishes GRT deduction for "the sale by a qualified contractor of qualified research and development services and qualified directed energy and satellite-related inputs sold pursuant to a contract with the to the United States Department of Defense."
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| HB96 | Nm grown produce for school meals | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $1.4 million "for the purchase and distribution of New Mexico grown fresh fruits and fresh vegetables" to schools, as well as a full-time-equivalent bureaucrat to "administer and promote this initiative."
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| HJM2 | Defer retirement benefits legislation | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Locks in recent reforms to public employee retirement system.
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| HJR10 | Convention of states | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Calls for a convention of the states to approve a constitutional amendment limiting federal power.
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| HJR13 | Constitutional countermand convention | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Calls for a convention of the states to approve a constitutional "countermand" amendment.
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| HJR2 | Limit school class size, ca | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -6 |
Proposes to amend state constitution to limit class sizes despite little evidence of CSR's benefits.
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| HJR3 | Economic development tax incentives, ca | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Limits duration of tax incentives for specific businesses and industries in the absent of specific legislative action.
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| HM105 | Support crude oil export ban relief | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2015 | 1 | 3 |
Requests that the congressional delegation support lifting the federal ban on oil exports.
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| HM127 | Study ongoing costs of railrunner | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/25/2015 | 1 | 2 |
Requests a DOT study on the costs of the Rail Runner, the feasibility of privatizing the line, and possible "benefits of replacing [it] with a reestablished commuter bus service."
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| HM16 | Veto certain capital outlay & use for roads | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Requests that the governor veto capital appropriations for counties that have banned or restricted oil and gas exploration.
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| HM2 | Parental paid-leave working group | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2015 | 1 | -2 |
This Memorial requests UNM's BBER to convene a parental paid-leave working group to develop recommendations for the establishment of a publicly managed parenting workers' leave fund.
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| HM75 | Spaceport road as state road | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Funds a study of classifying the road to "Spaceport America" as a state road and completing it.
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| HR2 | Archive house audio & video streams | Dead | 02/26/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Requires the archiving of videos of legislative proceedings.
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| HR6 | Disclosure of lobbyist info | Dead | 01/30/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Requires the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives to maintain a registry of lobbyists.
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| SB10 | Raise minimum wage | Dead | 01/20/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Would increase NM's minimum wage to $8.30/hour
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| SB103 | Employee preference | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 6 |
Makes New Mexico a right-to-work state.
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| SB105 | County gross receipts for school improvements | Vetoed | 03/19/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Creates the "authority to impose a special county education gross receipts tax of 0.75 percent."
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| SB110 | Residential energy conservation programs | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $1 million to the Department of Finance and Administration "to provide for a residential energy conservation program to increase the energy efficiency and reduce energy expenditure of homes occupied by low-income persons."
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| SB114 | Local gov't special fuels taxes | Vetoed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Authorizes local governments to impose "a special fuels excise tax of up to two cents per gallon in one-cent increments," provided voters approve.
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| SB118 | Concealed carry fingerprints & refreshers | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Loosens restrictions imposed by the Concealed Handgun Carry Act.
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| SB140 | Outdoor youth program act | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Creates new taxpayer-financed government program to encourage outdoor activities among youth.
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| SB152 | Health security act | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -8 |
Creates taxpayer-financed universal health entitlement.
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| SB160 | Implement local economic development act | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -6 |
Dramatically increases LEDA spending (business development/corporate welfare) to $50 million.
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| SB161 | Science early education pilot program | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $250,000 for the "Science Early Education Program" at high-poverty schools and creates the "Science Early Education Fund."
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| SB162 | Work force needs analysis | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $125,000 to "develop and implement a workforce gap forecasting model that will identify future workforce needs."
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| SB163 | Economic development co-op marketing | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Would create a new program and provide $2 million in matching funds to local economic development organizations to increase business recruitment in those organizations' regions.
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| SB164 | Job training | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Appropriates $12 million to the "Job Training Incentive Program."
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| SB165 | Statewide broadband system implementation | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $300,000 for a "statewide broadband system."
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| SB166 | Business recruitment, expansion & reporting | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Appropriates $500,000 to expand Economic Development Department's marketing and prospect-development efforts.
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| SB167 | Economic development grant fund & reporting | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $4.5 million to the economic development grant fund for "economic development."
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| SB168 | Expand tourism marketing & promotion | Dead | 02/25/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $3.5 million to promote tourism in New Mexico.
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| SB171 | Higher ed workforce development programs | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Appropriates $300,000 for "workforce development."
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| SB176 | Licensure of freestanding birth centers | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Creates new government licensing regime for "freestanding birth centers."
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| SB182 | Incorporate arts into k-12 education | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $350,000 for "regional centers to provide curriculum alignment, professional
development, technical assistance, portfolio assessment, program support and networking
opportunities for highly qualified arts educators."
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| SB183 | Employee preference act | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 6 |
Makes New Mexico a right-to-work state.
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| SB184 | No stb projects in certain counties | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 4 |
Bars the Board of Finance from issuing or selling severance tax bonds to local governments that have imposed regulations on mines and/or wells that would raise permitting and/or operating costs "by 25 percent or more."
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| SB193 | Prc jurisdiction over local phone carriers | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Reduces Public Regulation Commission authority over "incumbent local exchange carriers" serving more than 50,000 customers.
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| SB20 | Paid leave for parent-teacher conferences | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Mandates paid leave for parent-teacher conferences.
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| SB201 | School bus fuel gross receipts | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates GRT exemption for sales of "fuel in a vehicle authorized by contract with the Public Education Department as a school bus for the to-and-from school transportation of students."
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| SB204 | State inspectors general act | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Creates independent Offices of Inspectors General within eight cabinet level departments to conduct audits and investigations.
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| SB208 | Fraud against taxpayers definitions | Passed | 03/20/2015 | 2 | 3 |
Amends the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act to clarify that "state," for purposes of the act, includes local
governments, government schools, and other recipients of state funds.
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| SB209 | Nmsu smart & microgrid development | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $250,000 to NMSU for "research development and demonstration, technology transfer and advanced workforce training in renewable energy integration."
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| SB214 | Motor vehicle tax to road fund | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Phases in a shift of the revenue from the excise tax on motor vehicles from the general fund to the road fund.
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| SB223 | Phased minimum teacher salary increase | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Increases minimum salaries for level one, two, and three teachers and administrators.
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| SB237 | Local produce in school lunches | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $160,000 to expand the NMSU Department of Agriculture program that provides locally grown produce for school lunch programs.
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| SB238 | Craft brewer licenses | Passed | 03/17/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Allows a small brewer or winegrower "that also holds a dispenser or restaurant license to additionally hold a Small Brewer and Winegrowers Limited Wholesaler License."
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| SB240 | Live horse race gaming tax credit | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates gaming tax credit for live horse racing.
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| SB241 | Certain liquor license transfer limits | Passed | 03/17/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Loosens controls over liquor-dispenser licenses.
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| SB242 | Renewable energy tax credit changes | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Expands the "cap on the credit for the amount of electricity that may be produced by qualified energy generators."
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| SB249 | Geothermal renewable energy certificates | Passed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Allows "Renewable Energy Certificates" to be used by "rural electric distribution cooperatives for thermal energy originating from geothermal energy sources."
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| SB258 | Sale of alcohol growlers | Dead | 03/25/2015 | 1 | 2 |
Defines "cider" and "growler" and permits wineries to sell wine or cider in growlers.
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| SB26 | Investment in nm tech collaborative companies | Dead | 01/20/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Requires that one-fourth percent of the market value of the severance tax permanent fund be invested in New Mexico business enterprises that are approved by the technology research collaborative.
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| SB264 | Public employee bargaining public meetings | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Requires that all government-employee collective bargaining sessions "be open public meetings at all times."
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| SB267 | Sale of spaceport america | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | 4 |
Sells off "Spaceport America."
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| SB271 | Out-of-state event gross receipts | Vetoed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Exempts "receipts from the performance of or admissions to recreational, athletic, or entertainment services that occur out of state" from the GRT.
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| SB274 | Hold harmless & food deduction changes | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Reimposes municipal and county GRT rates on food, in exchange for reducing the statewide GRT rate from 5.125 percent to 5.000 percent.
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| SB275 | Board of body art practitioners | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/20/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Creates the "Board of Body Art Practitioners" and "Body Art Practitioner Fund" with a sunset date of July 1, 2021.
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| SB279 | Sustainable building tax credits | Passed | 03/20/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Extends and modifies the "Sustainable Building Tax Credit."
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| SB280 | Water harvesting income tax credit | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates a water-harvesting tax credit "of 20 percent of the cost of purchasing and installing a residential or commercial water harvesting system."
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| SB282 | Brain education advanced learning project | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $200,000 for a professional-development pilot project to train government-school teachers in "brain education."
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| SB284 | Patient safe staffing act | Dead | 02/25/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Increases state control and management of staffing at hospitals.
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| SB289 | Public financing of legislative races | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Enables state legislators in contested primary and general elections to obtain taxpayer subsidies.
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| SB290 | Audits of capital outlay projects | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Requires an independent audit "for every capital outlay project costing more than $5 million
funded in whole or in part with state money."
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| SB293 | Supplemental nutritional assistance program | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Appropriates $200,000 for supplemental food-stamp benefits.
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| SB296 | Employer records & workforce solutions costs | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | 1 |
Requires employers to keep worker records for three years instead of one.
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| SB297 | Identify certain programs in budget requests | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 1 | 1 |
Amends the requirements for agency performance-based program budget requests to "prioritize and promote use of evidence-based, research-based, and promising sub-programs."
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| SB301 | Create early childhood funds | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Creates the Early Education Endowment Fund and the Early Education and Home Visiting Fund.
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| SB303 | Freedom from unwarranted surveillance act | Dead | 03/18/2015 | 1 | 4 |
Bans law enforcement's use of drones without a warrant.
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| SB304 | Early childhood books and toys | Dead | 03/10/2015 | 1 | -3 |
Appropriates $200,00 to purchase and loan toys and books to "providers of state-funded early child care assistance programs."
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| SB318 | Sunset dates for certain agencies | Passed | 03/19/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Extends the sunset date for seven boards, including the Massage Therapy Board and Athletic Trainers Practice Board.
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| SB319 | County irb projects & complaint process | Passed | 03/26/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Permits industrial revenue bonds to be issued for mining and energy projects.
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| SB32 | Local economic development act entities | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Increases the types of businesses that are qualified entities for the purpose of the Local Economic Development Act
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| SB332 | Border zone trade-support gross receipts | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Reestablishes the GRT deduction "for trade-support companies that first locate in a border zone in fiscal years 2016-2021."
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| SB337 | Small business investment tax credit | Dead | 02/25/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Create the "small business investment income tax credit."
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| SB34 | Broadband infrastructure fund | Dead | 02/25/2015 | 0 | -3 |
This bill sets up a new "broadband infrastructure fund"at a cost to taxpayers of $10 million.
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| SB342 | Raise state & state school minimum wage | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Raises minimum wage to $10.10 "for all state employees and every person regularly employed at a state educational institution."
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| SB343 | Guadalupe county early childhood programs | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $50,000 "to improve early childhood education programs in Guadalupe County."
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| SB344 | Northeastern nm early childhood programs | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $150,000 "to improve and expand early childhood education programs in Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, and Taos counties."
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| SB346 | Tax reform | Dead | 03/16/2015 | 0 | 6 |
Simplifies GRT rates.
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| SB347 | Natural gas motor vehicle tax credits | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Create a GRT deduction "for natural gas motor vehicle equipment and installation."
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| SB350 | Increase minimum wage & index to inflation | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Increases minimum wage for state employees, indexes minimum wage to inflation.
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| SB351 | Dairy workers in minimum wage act | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Includes dairy workers within the definition of "employee" and within the overtime provisions of
the Minimum Wage Act.
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| SB352 | Utility economic development rates | Passed | 03/17/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Allows gas and electric utilities to offer "economic development rates" without the requirement for excess capacity.
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| SB364 | Municipal & general election at same time | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Requires that regular municipal elections "be held concurrently with the general election."
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| SB375 | Nm family act for family & medical leave | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Enacts the "New Mexico Family Act," funded by a 0.2 percent tax on personal and corporate incomes.
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| SB38 | Enterprise zone supportive housing | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $10.95 million "to establish five enterprise zone supportive housing initiatives."
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| SB384 | Campaign finance disclosure | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Regulates the free speech of independent organizations engaged in election communications.
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| SB391 | Extend solar market development tax credit | Vetoed | 03/26/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Extends the sunset of the "Solar Market Development Tax Credit" by four years.
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| SB394 | Increase & index gas tax for road projects | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -7 |
Increases the gas tax and diesel tax by ten cents each. Also indexes the taxes to inflation.
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| SB413 | Angel investment minimum & sunset | Dead | 02/09/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Increases the amount of "Angel Investment Credits" and eliminates some eligibility restrictions on the type and number of investments that qualify.
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| SB414 | Cultural property tax credit changes | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Expands the Cultural Property Income Tax Credit Act.
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| SB415 | Nm-grown produce in school meals | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $1.4 million "for the purchase and distribution of fresh, locally growth fruits and vegetables for school districts, charter schools, and juvenile detention centers."
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| SB421 | Limit local gov't & zoning commissions | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Limits the authority of zoning commissions as well as the authority of municipalities and counties to regulate "agricultural operations, mining activities and oil and gas activities."
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| SB432 | Increase minimum wage & annual increases | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Phases in minimum-wage increase from $7.50 to $10.10 over two years.
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| SB440 | Small brewer & winegrower reciprocity | Passed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Allows "winegrowers and small brewers to obtain wine or beer directly from a winegrower or small brewer without going through a licensed New Mexico wholesaler."
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| SB448 | Military acquisition gross receipts end dates | Passed | 03/26/2015 | 2 | -2 |
Extends GRT deduction "from transformational acquisition programs performing research and development, test and evaluation at New Mexico Major Range."
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| SB452 | Taos agricultural-based economic development | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $300,000 to assess "revitalization of agricultural lands to produce high-value crops in Taos County" and "provide specialized food and agricultural training for displaced workers in Taos County."
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| SB454 | Small brewer off-premises beer tastings | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Allows small brewers "to conduct beer tasting and sale at three off-premises locations."
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| SB471 | Brewer facility alternating proprietorship | Vetoed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Allow "alternating proprietorships to be established so that manufacturing facilities and equipment of a small brewer licensee may be used by another small brewer licensee to produce beer."
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| SB476 | Electronic proof of car insurance | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | 1 |
Permits use of portable electronic devices to demonstrate proof of motor vehicle insurance policy.
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| SB477 | Frontier community investment tax credit | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates tax credit for investments made in "Frontier Communities."
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| SB481 | Naming of public facilities | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Regulates how public buildings may be names after public officers.
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| SB483 | Nm federal land management study commission | Dead | 03/05/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Creates 17-member New Mexico Federal Land Management Study to examine options to transfer federal lands to the state.
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| SB486 | Create statewide food infrastructure | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $1.4 million to subsidize "agricultural and food entrepreneurs" to create "a statewide food infrastructure."
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| SB488 | College affordability endowment fund | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $1 million to the College Affordability Endowment Fund.
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| SB494 | Cumbres & toltec railroad visitor gateway | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Appropriates $106,300 to the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad Commission to build a visitor gateway center in the village of Chama.
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| SB5 | Business performance excellence program | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -1 |
Appropriates $125,000 to expand "performance excellence leadership training."
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| SB502 | U.s. dept. of defense energy gross receipts | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Exempts from the GRT receipts sales of "research and development services and qualified directed energy and satellite-related inputs sold pursuant to a contract with the to the United States Department of Defense."
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| SB503 | Beer & wine delivery licenses | Vetoed | 03/19/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Creates beer and wine delivery licenses, given approval by "a majority of qualified voters" in a local-option district.
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| SB504 | Unm geospatial & population studies program | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $100,000 to "fund ongoing research related to poverty" by UNM's geospatial and population studies program.
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| SB512 | No lobbying for former public officials | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Prohibits "former PRC commissioners, former legislators and former cabinet secretaries from accepting compensation as lobbyists for a period of calendar two years following the end of their service."
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| SB521 | Lottery scholarships for home school | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | 4 |
Allows homeschooled students access to the Lottery Tuition Fund.
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| SB531 | Woody biomass job creation | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $250,000 "to advance opportunities for entrepreneurs to utilize woody biomass generated from forest restoration."
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| SB532 | Win with wellness school project | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates the “Win With Wellness” pilot project for a "wellness curriculum" in government schools.
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| SB533 | Severance tax fund in nm credit unions | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Requires that "at least 5 percent of the value of cash holdings of the Severance Tax Permanent Fund ... be invested in New Mexico financial institutions and credit unions."
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| SB537 | Sunshine portal state contract info | Passed | 03/30/2015 | 2 | 3 |
Broadens the information required to be disclosed via the Sunshine Portal Act.
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| SB544 | Permanent fund to ec. development dept | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates minimum percentages of the market value of the Severance Tax Permanent Fund to be invested directly or indirectly in New Mexico Businesses or transferred to the Economic Development Department.
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| SB546 | Firearms safety locks & notices | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Requires gun dealers to post storage-law notices at their places of business.
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| SB553 | Workers' comp benefits & intoxication | Dead | 03/16/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Requires that worker compensation benefits "be paid in proportion to the contribution of the worker's intoxication to the worker's injury or death."
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| SB556 | Taos ski valley bond sale | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Authorizes the Village of Taos Ski Valley Tax Increment Development District to issue up to $44 million in tax-exempt bonds.
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| SB559 | Early childhood provider benefit incentives | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Requires CYFD to prioritize funds to increase monthly child care assistance reimbursement rates by 50 percent for providers that offer paid sick days, paid family or medical leave, health insurance, or a minimum wage of $15 per hour.
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| SB561 | Corporate tax for preschool programs | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Imposes a "corporate low wage tax" to fund preschool.
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| SB563 | Increase school hours & days | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Establishes "a 205-day school year for kindergarten through fifth grades and requires each instructional day to consist of 5.5 hours per day," provided voter approval.
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| SB565 | Limit film production tax credit | Passed | 03/17/2015 | 2 | 1 |
Clarifies and limits production expenses that are eligible for the film tax credit.
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| SB579 | Limit certain loan fees & charges | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Limits fees and charges for short-term loans.
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| SB580 | Local economic development projects | Dead | 03/16/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $10 million "to support local economic development projects."
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| SB585 | Military base office rfp | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $300,000 for a study of "the advantages and disadvantages of the State of New Mexico as it relates to the national security objectives of the United States."
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| SB593 | Implement local economic development act | Dead | 03/16/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $50 million to the Economic Development Department "for the purpose of funding projects pursuant to the Local Economic Development Act."
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| SB6 | Dental therapist licensure & regulation | Dead | 01/20/2015 | 0 | 4 |
Establishes a system of licensure and scope of service to allow dental therapists to practice in New Mexico.
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| SB606 | Restrict work hours on school nights | Dead | 01/30/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Adds restrictions on "what hours a child who is over the age of 16 and younger than 19 years of age may work."
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| SB607 | Create early learning dept. | Dead | 01/30/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Creates and funds the "Early Learning Department."
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| SB608 | Local liquor excise tax & rates | Dead | 02/23/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Allows all counties to impose a liquor excise tax with voter approval.
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| SB612 | Teacher school supply purchase tax deduction | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates a "deduction from net income of a public school teacher for the cost of school supplies purchased in a taxable year."
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| SB618 | Investment in local economic development | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates minimum percentages of the Severance Tax Permanent Fund to either subsidize state businesses or be transferred to the Economic Development Department.
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| SB621 | Eliminate hold harmless reductions | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Eliminates the "hold harmless" phaseout for counties and municipalities.
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| SB623 | Phase in higher income supplemental tax | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Creates an "individual income tax supplemental tax," to be imposed on higher-earning filers.
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| SB630 | Carbon credit act | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | -5 |
Establishes "a carbon credit as a contract right," and creates and funds a board "charged with reviewing and auditing the carbon credit and offset rights."
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| SB633 | Eliminate some hold harmless reductions | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Eliminates the hold-harmless phaseout for some local governments and replaces it with a "maximum distribution."
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| SB636 | Early childhood programs | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Appropriates $10 million "for early childhood programs."
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| SB641 | No state agency funds without audits | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Bars approval of budgets and bond sales of state agencies that have "an outstanding annual
audit or an annual or special audit with material weaknesses or significant deficiencies."
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| SB65 | Regulation & labeling of nicotine products | Dead | 01/20/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Imposes regulations and a tax on "nicotine products."
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| SB656 | Raise gas tax & create road maintenance fund | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -7 |
Increases the gas tax and diesel tax by ten cents each. Also indexes the taxes to inflation.
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| SB66 | School grade promotion & retention | Dead | 01/20/2015 | 0 | 4 |
Would provide for retention and remediation for certain students in early elementary school that cannot read.
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| SB662 | Art sale at auctions gross receipts | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Exempts from the GRT "fine art sold by an auction house located in a municipality to a bidder that is not a resident of the state and that does not have a principal place of business in the state."
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| SB664 | Employee preference act | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | 6 |
Makes New Mexico a right-to-work state.
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| SB673 | Allow customer wine in restaurants | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Allows customers of "a dispenser, canopy licensee, or restaurant licensee" to bring and drink their own wine.
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| SB675 | Truth in political advertising act | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 0 | -7 |
Appropriates $5 million for a sure-to-be-held-unconstitutional "review agency" to grade election advertisements for their "truth or falsity, with a one being untruthful or false and a five being completely truthful."
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| SB69 | Resident business set-aside act | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 1 | -6 |
Sets up a system of in-state purchasing mandates for government contractors.
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| SB7 | Hydrogen fuel production tax credit | Dead | 03/10/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Creates the "hydrogen fuel production tax credit."
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| SB70 | Airline employee shifts and hours | Passed | 03/20/2015 | 2 | 1 |
Makes permanent the overtime exemption for "airline employees who work more than 40 hours in a week
due to voluntarily trading shifts with other employees."
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| SB71 | Local elections for nm-produced liquor sales | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Allows local-option districts "to hold an election to add distilled spirits produced in New Mexico to what restaurant licensees are allowed to sell and serve."
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| SB72 | Loan interest rate caps | Dead | 01/20/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Cap the interest rates charged by lenders operating in New Mexico.
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| SB75 | Limit spaceport bond & tax authority | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Repeals Spaceport Authority's ability to issue bonds. Limits use of Spaceport Authority's funds.
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| SB8 | Charter school education tech equipment | Passed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | 1 |
Makes charter schools eligible to receive certain education technology equipment.
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| SB87 | New mexico housing trust fund | Dead | 02/25/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $5 million "to carry out the provisions of the New Mexico Housing Trust Fund Act."
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| SB9 | Electric vehicle income tax credit | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Provides $2,500 income tax credit for purchase of electric vehicles.
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| SB90 | Removal from office for felony conviction | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Stipulates that an elected official convicted of a felony must immediately resign and forfeit his or her campaign funds to the children’s trust fund.
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| SB92 | Employee preference act | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 6 |
Makes New Mexico a right-to-work state.
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| SB93 | No public employee union dues from payroll | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 4 |
Prohibits payroll deductions of unions dues for government employees.
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| SB94 | Industrial hemp farming act | Vetoed | 03/24/2015 | 2 | 2 |
Provides for licensing the growing, selling, and processing of industrial hemp.
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| SB98 | Nmsu economic development promotion | Dead | 02/18/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Appropriates $100,000 to NMSU's Arrowhead Center for Business Development "to further economic development and promote entrepreneurship throughout the state."
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| SB99 | Cybersecurity device gross receipts | Dead | 01/26/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Creates a GRT deduction for sales of cyber-security devices.
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| SJM10 | Reconvene j. paul taylor childhood task force | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Requests that UNM "reconvene for the third year the J. Paul Taylor Early Childhood Task Force in order to continue the task force's work ... developing further an early childhood behavioral health action plan."
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| SJR1 | Independent redistricting commission, ca | Dead | 01/20/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to create a commission to redistrict federal and statewide offices.
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| SJR12 | Land grant fund for longer school time, ca | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | -3 |
Amends the constitution to "create an additional distribution from the permanent school fund (to the general fund) in the amount of 1 percent of the five-year average of the year-end market value of the fund," in order to lengthen the school year.
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| SJR16 | Invest public money in local banks, ca | Dead | 02/02/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to require at least 5 percent of state investments to be "deposited in banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions that are chartered in New Mexico."
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| SJR2 | Use, regulation, sale & tax of marijuana, ca | Dead | 01/27/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Proposes voter-approved constitutional amendment to "allow for possession and personal use of marijuana for persons 21 years of age and older," with regulations to determined by the legislature.
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| SJR3 | Limit car-related fees & taxes for roads, ca | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Proposes constitutional amendment to restrict the use of transportation-tax revenue to transportation expenses.
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| SJR4 | Campaign finance constitution convention, ca | Dead | 03/02/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Calls for "a constitutional convention for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment ... that would limit corporate personhood for the purposes of campaign finance and political speech."
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| SJR9 | Increase & index minimum wage, ca | Dead | 01/22/2015 | 0 | -4 |
Indexes minimum wage to inflation rate via constitutional amendment.
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| SM40 | No additional wilderness next to pecos | Dead | 01/23/2015 | 0 | 3 |
Establishes that "New Mexico opposes the designation of any expanded wilderness or special management areas adjoining the existing Pecos wilderness."
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| SM6 | Federal land mgmt. & revenue impacts | Dead | 03/17/2015 | 0 | 2 |
Requests that the Department of Finance and Administration "convene stakeholders to ... study and make recommendations on the legal, economic, and practical framework surrounding federal land management."
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| SM69 | Reconvene j. paul taylor childhood task force | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2015 | 1 | -2 |
Requests that UNM "reconvene for the third year the J. Paul Taylor Early Childhood Task Force in order to continue the task force's work ... developing further an early childhood behavioral health action plan."
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| SM79 | Nmsu retail gas prices study | Dead | 03/13/2015 | 0 | -2 |
Asks NMSU's business school to "undertake a study of the factors that influence the retail price of gasoline and the reasons why the retail price of gasoline varies from region to region and subregion to subregion."
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