Enacts a cumbersome, unworkable, state-run bureaucracy to provide "health care coverage to all New Mexicans through a combination of public and private financing," "control escalating health care costs," and "improve the health care of all New Mexicans."

Simplifies voting by mandating a single election day for all local elections.

Imposes another mandate on business by requiring that places "of public accommodation ... provide a baby changing facility in restrooms for men and ... for women."

Further overregulates healthcare by mandating that insurers "provide coverage for eligible enrollees to receive artery calcification screening."

Hurts economic development by ordering the state's chief information officer to "establish and maintain a statewide broadband network and apply for reimbursements from the federal universal service fund."

Hurts economic development by adopting a "phased-in supplemental income tax" for individuals, married couples, and heads of households earning more than $100,000.

Improves transparency by mandating online publishing of capital projects and "the names of legislators or the governor who allocated a portion of the capital outlay appropriation or bond authorization for each project."

Further regulates healthcare by barring pharmacy benefits managers from charging pharmacies "a fee for any step or component of, or mechanism related to, the adjudication of a claim."

Potentially damages the value of the severance tax permanent fund by requiring that 0.25 percent "of the market value ... shall be invested in New Mexico business enterprises that are approved by the technology research collaborative."

Damages fiscal responsibility by raising the minimum wage for noncertified government-school employees to $15.00 and indexing it to inflation.

Appropriates $2 million to fund "an ongoing workforce and professional development program" for ineffective and expensive "early childhood education services."

Adopts an unnecessary requirement that insurers "make available or provide an identification card to the primary insured" within 30 days of a policy's effective date.

Boosts fiscal accountability by requiring that capital outlays in excess of $1 million "have a special audit at the end of the project."

Improves transparency by mandating the creation of "a searchable listing" of capital-outlay projects.

Boosts economic development by creating a "one-stop business portal" to serve as "a single point of entry for conducting certain business transactions with state agencies."

Boosts economic development by authorizing the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules "for industrial hemp ... research and development purposes, including agricultural, agronomic, ecological, processing, sales and marketing research."

Improves fiscal transparency/accountability by requiring the annual publication of a "tax expenditure budget" and "dedicated revenue budget."

Boosts economic development by authorizing the Department of Agriculture to "establish and carry out [an] industrial hemp research and development program," including processes for fees, permits, inspections, and law-enforcement training.

Unnecessarily adds post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions that are presumed to be caused by a firefighter’s employment.

Boosts government accountability by requiring that "public" higher-ed institutions "develop performance metrics" for programs that claim to foster "economic development."

Promotes economic development by exempting hemp from the Controlled Substances Act.

Boosts funding for highway projects without raising taxes by shifting revenue from the motor vehicle excise tax to the state road fund.

Further complicates the tax code by allowing the deduction of state and local income and sales taxes from the income tax.

Appropriates $1 million to fund "an ongoing workforce and professional development program" for ineffective and expensive "early childhood education services."

Simplifies voting by mandating a single election day and prohibiting advisory questions.

Potentially raises the tax burden by renaming the "municipal environmental services gross receipts tax" the "municipal infrastructure and environmental services gross receipts tax" and expanding the types of projects to be funded by the levy.

Mandates that auto recyclers notify the Taxation and Revenue Department of every motor-vehicle purchase within forty-eight hours of the close of business on the day the purchase is made.

Hurts economic development by imposing unnecessary and duplicative regulations on employers, allegedly on behalf of pregnant workers.

Promotes education choice by requiring school districts to distribute shares of property-tax revenue to charter schools.

Furthers campus "sprawl" in New Mexico's system of higher education by appropriating $219,500 to Eastern New Mexico University "for program support and continued operation of the special services department" at ENMU's Roswell campus.

Enhances the ineffective and fiscally unsound film and television tax credit by raising its annual limit to $53.8 million and indexing it to inflation after the 2018 fiscal year.

Promotes corporate welfare and tax complexity by making the solar market development income tax credit permanent and creating the "solar market development corporate income tax credit."

Boosts fiscal responsibility by limiting lottery scholarships to students from households with income that does not exceed $75,000.

Micromanages government agencies' decisionmaking by "encouraging and setting goals for the use of historically underutilized businesses by state agencies in all public purchasing decisions."

Raises tax revenue by an estimated $31.6 million in the first fiscal year by (potentially unconstitutionally) imposing the GRT on purchases made from out-of-state vendors.

Helps to control government spending by reforming the "prevailing wage" mandate for public projects.

Hurts economic development by raising the top income-tax rate by more than 20 percent.

Hikes the taxes on gasoline and diesel, raises the fee for a weight-distance permit, delays the phased reduction of corporate income tax, equalizes the GRT for nonprofit and for-profit hospitals, and raises the motor-vehicle excise tax by 33 percent.

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by squandering $125,000 on the Department of Agriculture's organic program.

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by appropriating $1.44 million for "the purchase and distribution of New Mexico-grown fresh fruits and fresh vegetables to school districts, charter schools and juvenile detention centers."

Helps to control government spending by repealing the "prevailing wage" mandate for public projects.

Deregulates healthcare by offering alternatives to the standard relationship between a physician assistant and a physician.

Micromanages government agencies' decisionmaking by giving preferential treatment for public-works projects to veteran contractors who have annual gross revenues of up to $10 million.

Streamlines government by replacing the Litter Control Council with a seven-member New Mexico Clean and Beautiful Advisory Committee, a "smaller and more focused" entity.

Promotes charitable work by limiting the personal liability of volunteers, provided that they act "in good faith" and "within the scope" of their "official functions and duties."

Improves transparency and accountability by requiring that all state-government entities provide live and archived webcasts of public meetings.

Fosters accessible and competitive elections by making the signature requirement for third-party candidates similar to those for major-party candidates.

Allows patients with advanced illnesses to be treated with drugs and/or devices that have "successfully completed phase one of a clinical trial" but have not yet been approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration.

Streamlines government by abolishing the redundant Information Technology Commission.

Avoids dealing with the lottery scholarship program's revenue gap by irresponsibly extending liquor-tax distributions to the fund from fiscal year 2017 to fiscal year 2020.

Further overregulates healthcare by requiting health facilities that provide mammography examinations to provide information on individual breast density.

Further overregulates health by mandating "clinical review criteria" for insurers that provide coverage for prescription drugs for which step therapy protocols are required.

Maintains tax-code complexity by extending the expiration date for the GRT deduction for "nonathletic special events at post-secondary educational institutions within 50 miles of the New Mexico border."

Micromanages local and state government by requiring that every "contracting agency" award "at least thirty-three percent of the total number of its contracts ... to a resident business."

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by appropriating $125,000 "to educate the people of New Mexico about the missions of the nuclear-powered submarines USS New Mexico, SSN-779, and USS Santa Fe, SSN-763."

Micromanages the financial sector by capping the interest rates charged by lenders.

Permits alcohol to be "sold, served and consumed on licensed premises" in years "when December 31 falls on a Sunday, from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 a.m. of the following day."

Allows patients with advanced illnesses to be treated with drugs and/or devices that have "successfully completed phase one of a clinical trial" but have not yet been approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration.

Promotes greater access to healthcare and cuts Medicaid costs by legalizing and regulating dental therapy.

Removes the lodging-tax exemption for homeowners who rent rooms through websites and applications, but does not compensate for the new revenue with a lower tax rate.

Damages economic-development efforts by raising the minimum wage to $15.00 in 2018 and indexing the mandate to inflation in subsequent years.

Supports education choice by expanding home-schooled students' ability to compete in state academic contests.

Improves infrastructure by allowing government entities to enter into agreements with "one or more private partners for the design, development, financing, construction, operation or maintenance of a public project."

Deregulates check-cashing by lowering the licensing threshold for persons receiving under $2,500 within a thirty-day period.

Boosts economic development by authorizing the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules "for industrial hemp ... research and development purposes, including agricultural, agronomic, ecological, processing, sales and marketing research."

Hikes the cigarette tax by 90 percent, raises the tobacco-products tax by a factor of three, and imposes the tobacco-products tax on electronic cigarettes.

Further overregulates healthcare, in anticipation of the repeal of Obamacare, by mandating that insurers provide "at least one product or form of contraception" and "clinical services related to the provision or use of contraception."

Drives up healthcare costs by mandating that each hospital maintain "nursing staffing levels" determined by a committee controlled by "nurses who provide direct patient care but are not hospital nurse managers or hospital administrators."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by explicitly including "agricultural enterprises" as eligible to receive economic-development subsidies.

Perpetuates unnecessary regulations by extending the sunset dates for a number of state licensing bureaucracies, including the Board of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, the Private Investigations Advisory Board, and the Interior Design Board.

Promotes accountability in and local control of government schooling by limiting the size of school districts to 40,000 students.

Deregulates healthcare by allowing lay midwives to procure, possess, and administer (but not prescribe) medications.

Boosts the state's fiscal condition by transferring $12.5 million in surplus revenue from the Legislative Retirement Plan to the General Fund for the 2017 fiscal year.

Hurts economic development by raising the top income-tax rate to 5.9 percent and limiting the capital-gains deduction to $1,000.

Further complicate the tax code by doubling the "working families personal income tax credit" to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit.

Hurts economic development by raising the top income-tax rate by more than 20 percent.

Hurts employment prospects for the handicapped by eliminating the minimum-wage exemption for disabled workers.

Hurts economic development by raising the the risk of increased electricity prices through the establishment of "community solar gardens."

Boosts economic development by exempting providers of eyebrow-threading from barber/cosmetology licensure.

Perpetuates corporate welfare establishing the "Community Development Financial Institution Fund" to "fill a vital role in meeting the needs of New Mexico's underserved communities in furthering economic development."

Micromanages the financial sector by imposing a fee-based structure for all loans under $5,000 and eliminating payday loans.

Appropriates, and earmarks, $1 million for an "advanced mapping fund," despite the Legislative Finance Committee's concern that "earmarking reduces the ability of the legislature to establish spending priorities."

Perpetuates corporate welfare and worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by appropriating $2 million in Local Economic Development Act funding "for projects that support resident businesses."

Deregulates banking by removing the rule that at least two-thirds of the membership of the board of New Mexico-chartered banks be residents of the state.

Imposes a regulation, of dubious value, that prescriptions for contacts or eyeglasses can only be issued after an in-person examination.

Hurts economic development by limiting the capital-gains deduction to $1,000.

Perpetuates corporate welfare and further complicates the tax code by broadening the availability of the high-wage jobs tax credit.

Reforms occupational licensing by eliminating the requirement that an applicant who has completed 1,200 hours of coursework and has passed an exam also complete a registered hairstyling apprenticeship.

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by giving $200,000 to an "economic development center" in Bernalillo County to promote "local farms, ranches and food entrepreneurs."

Hurts economic development by raising the beer tax by 651 percent, wine tax by 376 percent, and spirits tax by 353 percent.

Improves public-sector accountability by providing for the recall of elective officers of "any commission-manager municipality."

Micromanages the administration of taxpayer funds, for little potential gain, by requiring the State Investment Council to invest at least half of its permanent-fund infrastructure allocations in infrastructure projects in New Mexico.

Potentially helps ratepayers by adding nuclear-generated electricity to the list of power sources eligible to meet the renewable portfolio standard.

Reduces regulatory compliance/complexity by ordering the Taxation and Revenue Department to set up rules to require police to accept proof of vehicle insurance displayed on mobile devices.

Boosts economic development by allowing winery customers to remove partially consumed bottles of wine.

Permits an "alternative pathway to licensure" for a number of categories of school employees, including counselors, social workers, nurses, psychologists, therapists, and interpreters for the deaf.

Boosts economic development by substantially reforming the state's tax architecture, including the alignment of income- and corporate-tax rates and conversion of the GRT to a sales tax with far fewer loopholes.

Advances school choice and fiscal responsibility by authorizing income- and corporate-tax credits for donations to scholarship organizations that assist low-income parents with paying for tuition at private schools.

Reduces regulatory compliance/complexity by ordering the Taxation and Revenue Department to set up rules to require police to accept proof of vehicle insurance displayed on mobile devices.

Helps taxpayers and combats the Nanny State by barring municipalities from imposing an excise tax on "food or beverages."

Boosts economic development by making New Mexico a right-to-work state.

Perpetuates ineffective and expensive "investment" in preschool by appropriating $1 million to the Children, Youth and Families Department for "early childhood teacher education and retention."

Further complicates the tax code and perpetuates corporate welfare by making changes to the tax credit for "green" electricity, including expansion to geothermal sources.

Hurts economic development by raising the minimum wage to $9.25. (The bill also bars local governments from regulating the schedule/hours of workers in private-sector employment.)

Promotes the proper use of taxpayer funds through revising penalties for trafficking in food stamps by aggregating dollar values for each incident.

Hurts taxpayers and damages school-choice options for parents and students by placing an unnecessary moratorium on new charter schools between June 1, 2017 and January 1, 2020.

Perpetuates corporate welfare by creating the "Bioscience Authority Fund" to "encourage and foster economic development ... by attracting and encouraging the growth of bioscience industries and facilities."

Further complicates the tax code by creating the "small business income tax deduction."

Micromanages the financial sector by capping the interest rates charged by lenders.

Restricts corporate welfare by making "greenfield" developments ineligible for tax-increment financing.

Perpetuates the state's unsustainable healthcare spending for the "poor" by requiring counties to contribute an additional 1/16th of a percentage point of GRT receipts to the county-supported Medicaid fund.

Boosts both fiscal responsibility and education freedom by allowing qualified students in 11th or 12th grade to graduate from high school.

Hurts economic development by raising the existing top income-tax rate from 4.9 percent to 5 percent and adding a new top rate of 6 percent.

Hurts economic development by substantially revising the income tax, primarily increasing tax burdens through higher rates and the elimination of the net capital gains deduction.

Supports economic development by allowing craft distillers, winegrowers, and small brewers to purchase alcohol directly, rather than through a licensed wholesaler.

Perpetuates corporate welfare by permitting local governments to allowing a local government to create "enhanced enterprise zones" where property taxes are abated for up to ten years.

Damages economic freedom by prohibiting the sale of "spirituous liquors or wine for less than the price paid to a wholesaler or wine wholesaler for the same spirituous liquors or wine."

Improves transparency and accountability in the regulatory process by adopting uniform standards for public participation, explanatory statements, archiving of records, and emergency rulemaking.

Perpetuates corporate welfare by allowing "broadband telecommunications network facilities" to be included in local "public-private partnerships" for "economic development."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by extending the "solar market development tax credit" through 2024 and increasing its "maximum annual aggregate" to $5 million.

Hurts economic development by allowing counties and municipalities to impose a total gasoline tax of as much as 10 cents.

Hurts economic development by gradually raising the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2020 and indexing the mandate to inflation in subsequent years.

Further complicates the tax code by making all practitioners eligible for the same amount of the Rural Health Care Practitioner Tax Credit, and adding counselors, pharmacists, and social workers to the eligibility list.

Potentially raises taxes by allowing a voter-approved higher property tax to fund "education technology improvements."

Imposes more accountability by establishing a legislative committee to "review proposals for capital outlay funding" and "review the status of projects with authorization for capital outlay funding."

Combats "revolving door" corruption by prohibiting former state elected and appointed officials from being employed as lobbyists "for a period of two calendar years after service."

Further complicates the tax code by establishing a deduction for estate and trust income "that is set aside for future distribution to a nonresident individual beneficiary."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by extending the "solar market development tax credit" through 2024 and increasing its "maximum annual aggregate" to $5 million.

Further micromanages the employer-employee relationship by mandating that employers providing a sick-leave benefit "permit ... eligible employees to use accrued sick leave to care for their family members."

Promotes economic development and law-enforcement prioritization by legalizing and regulating industrial hemp, agricultural hemp seed production, and marijuana for personal use.

Perpetuates corporate welfare by creating the "Mexican affairs division" within the Department of Economic Development to "promote New Mexico products and services in Mexico."

Allows sixteen-year-olds to vote in school elections.

Meddles with the private sector by asking the treasurer to establish a task force to consider a state-run "retirement savings vehicle for private-sector employees having limited or no access to a retirement savings arrangement at work."

Devotes additional revenue from the Land Grant Permanent Fund to ineffective and expensive "early childhood education services."

Squanders $7 billion from the Land Grant Permanent Fund on "infrastructure and energy projects," "clean energy and water technologies," and "early childhood services."

Reduces gerrymandering/corruption by establishing, via constitutional amendment, an independent redistricting commission for federal and state offices.

Wastes the resources and time of the Economic Development Department by requesting that it "identify and study opportunities for trade and for sharing of academic and cultural resources between New Mexico and Cuba."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by requesting that the Resilience in New Mexico Agriculture Task Force "develop a strategic statewide agriculture resiliency plan for future resiliency and job growth in the agricultural sector."

Perpetuates social engineering and ineffective/counterproductive transportation by recognizing and congratulating "local and tribal governments, agencies and team members" committed to promoting and implementing "Complete Streets" policy.

Subsidizes lobbying by continuing the "work" of the politicized "working group" pushing for paid parental leave in New Mexico.

Boosts economic development by requesting that the Legislative Finance Committee "develop regulatory policy principles to review bills impacting the regulatory environment ... to ensure that the proposals do not unreasonably burden economic growth."

Wastes resources and time of the auditor by requesting that he "convene a working group" on financial literacy "and the expansion of the prosperity kids program," as well as "the possibility of assessing a fee for financial products licensure."

Wastes the resources and time of the Legislative Finance Committee by requesting that it study "the feasibility of establishing a state-owned bank in New Mexico."

Perpetuates anti-fracking hysteria by asking that the BLM "desist from any leasing or issuance of permits without prior tribal consultation in the greater Chaco landscape."

Perpetuates nonsensical nutrition policy by asking the state to create a program for food-stamp beneficiaries "who live in 'food deserts' and do not have access to farmers' markets."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by asking the Tourism and Economic Development Departments "to study the cost and potential economic impact of a state office of outdoor recreation."

Complicates the tax code by mandating "combined reporting" for businesses subject to the corporate income tax.

Potentially disenfranchises the state's citizens by awarding New Mexico's Electoral College votes to the winner of the "largest national popular vote total."

Perpetuates ineffective and expensive "investment" in preschool by creating the Early Childhood Services Department as a cabinet-level bureaucracy.

Boosts government transparency and accountability by requiring "closeout audits" of state-agency contracts greater than $10 million.

Helps to close the budget deficit for the preceding fiscal year by reverting balances from fire and law-enforcement funds.

Helps to close the budget deficit for the preceding fiscal year by reducing capital expenditures.

Helps to close the budget deficit for the preceding fiscal year by reducing/transferring funds from various state accounts, including the "closing fund."

Helps to close the budget deficit for the preceding fiscal year by reducing appropriations to school districts and charter schools.

Promotes economic development by reducing some tax rates and eliminating some taxes entirely, while repealing many credits, exemptions, and deductions.

Deregulates real-estate auction regulations by exempting an auctioneer working under the control of a qualifying broker from licensure requirements.

Boosts education choice in the state by clarifying that the term 'school district' includes locally and state-chartered charter schools.

Enhances taxpayers' rights by allowing enrolled agents to participate on behalf of their clients in all tax protests, not just income-tax protests.

Mandates that auto recyclers notify the Taxation and Revenue Department of every motor-vehicle purchase within forty-eight hours of the close of business on the day the purchase is made.

Improves infrastructure by allowing government entities to enter into agreements with "one or more private partners for the design, development, financing, construction, operation or maintenance of a public project."

Creates a new, unnecessary occupational-licensing regime for funeral service directors and apprentice funeral service director.

Micromanages the financial sector by capping the interest rates charged by lenders.

Boosts economic development by changing the worker-compensation rule that allows an employee to continue receiving benefits despite returning to work and being fired for misconduct unrelated to his/her injury.

Controls commercial speech by making it illegal to label a product "milk" if "its ingredients do not consist of the whole, clean, lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy mammals."

Protects civil liberties by banning drone surveillance by individuals, as well as government entities lacking a warrant, "on private property in which the ... owners have a reasonable expectation of privacy."

Enhances private-property owners' rights by freeing them from "any duty of care to keep [their] lands safe for entry or use" by cave explorers.

Enacts a cumbersome, unworkable, state-run bureaucracy to provide "health care coverage to all New Mexicans through a combination of public and private financing," "control escalating health care costs," and "improve the health care of all New Mexicans."

Boosts the unaffordable and counterproductive welfare state by requiring the Human Services Department to "establish an infant, toddler and family home visiting program."

Adds 14 conditions to the list of "debilitating medical conditions" that qualify a patient to use medical cannabis.

Further overregulates health by mandating "clinical review criteria" for insurers that provide coverage for prescription drugs for which step therapy protocols are required.

Micromanages local and state government by requiring that every "contracting agency" award "at least thirty-three percent of the total number of its contracts ... to a resident business."

Perpetuates ineffective and expensive preschool policies by creating the "Early Childhood Land Grant Permanent Fund" and "Early Childhood Land Grant Income Fund," using "unleased federal subsurface mineral acreage beneath private land."

Further complicates the tax code by creating the "small business investment income tax credit," which is "not to exceed 25 percent of not more than $250,000 of the qualified investment against" a taxpayer's income-tax liability.

Hikes taxes in a number of ways, including raising the motor vehicle excise tax by 33 percent, the gasoline tax by 29 percent, and the diesel tax by 24 percent.

Supports economic development by permitting beer and wine sales by salons, provided a majority vote by the "registered qualified electors of the local option district."

Promotes civil liberties by modifying and strengthening 2015's reform of "the standards and procedures for the seizure and forfeiture of property."

Perpetuates ineffective and counterproductive preschool policy by expanding the membership of, and extending the sunset date for, the Early Learning Advisory Council.

Hurts education-choice options by restricting charter-school growth in rural areas.

Hikes the cigarette tax by 90 percent, raises the tobacco-products tax by a factor of three, and imposes the tobacco-products tax on electronic cigarettes.

Advances government nannying by imposing the GRT on "carbonated beverages" sold in grocery stores.

Hurts economic development by adding "broadband technology infrastructure" to the list of local-government projects covered under the Infrastructure Development Zone Act.

Promotes fiscal responsibility by barring, albeit in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, the use of public funds for "the purpose of looking for or catching a fictitious creature."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by utilities and cooperatives to "to participate in solar projects planned by local governments, political subdivisions or state post-secondary educational institutions."

Improves transparency by mandating the creation of "a searchable listing" of capital-outlay projects.

Removes the lodging-tax exemption for homeowners who rent rooms through websites and applications, but does not compensate for the new revenue with a lower tax rate.

Promotes law-enforcement prioritization by reducing the penalties for possession of marijuana up to one-half ounce and use or possession of drug paraphernalia.

Imposes greater transparency and accountability on the capital-outlay process by creating a "public works committee" to evaluate proposals and "develop a ranked list ... based on a scoring methodology."

Imposes a legally questionable mandate by making out-of-state vendors with annual receipts over $100,000 collect the GRT.

Wastes time and resources by requiring state agencies and entities receiving state funding to develop and implement policies to decrease "institutional racism."

Perpetuates unnecessary occupational licensing by revising the Massage Therapy Practice Act.

Promotes economic development and law-enforcement prioritization by legalizing and regulating industrial hemp, agricultural hemp seed production, and marijuana for personal use.

Drives up healthcare costs by mandating that each hospital maintain "nursing staffing levels" determined by a committee controlled by "nurses who provide direct patient care but are not hospital nurse managers or hospital administrators."

Hurts economic development and perpetuates ineffective and expensive preschool policies by creating a "early childhood education fund" through a surtax on oil and gas production and new tax on electricity production.

Perpetuates ineffective and expensive "investment" in preschool be creating the Early Childhood Education Department and Early Childhood Education Fund.

Enhances unjust government-supported competition with the private sector by allowing the Corrections Industries Division to sell its products at any value year round.

Hurts economic development by imposing a surcharge (the rate of which is to be decided by the Public Regulation Commission) "to deploy and maintain" broadband Internet service "in rural areas of the state."

Hurts economic development and perpetuates corporate welfare by requiring "rural electric cooperatives and municipalities" to obtain 70 percent of their power from politically correct sources by 2040. For "public utilities," the mandate is 80 percent.

Hurts economic development by raising the beer tax by 651 percent, wine tax by 376 percent, and spirits tax by 353 percent.

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by giving $200,000 to an "economic development center" in Bernalillo County to promote "local farms, ranches and food entrepreneurs."

Bans electronic cigarettes from "public" indoor settings, despite the facts that the products do not contain tobacco and do not produce smoke.

Damages economic-development efforts by raising the general minimum wage to $8.75 and the minimum wage for tip-compensated workers to $2.50.

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by increasing minimum teacher salaries despite a legislative finding that "the impact on recruitment and retention" from boosting compensation is "unclear because these funds are not strategically used."

Hurts economic development by ordering the state's chief information officer to "establish and maintain a statewide broadband network and apply for reimbursements from the federal universal service fund."

Hurts economic development by raising the the risk of increased electricity prices through the establishment of "community solar gardens."

Hurts economic development by raising the top income-tax rate, limiting the deduction for capital gains, and dedicating the new revenue that will allegedly be raised to ineffective and expensive "early childhood education services."

Squanders $368.5 million by appropriating the sum to the "public education department for distribution through the state equalization guarantee" without any reforms of K-12 education.

Helps patients with pain and/or epilepsy by excluding cannabidiol from the definition of marijuana.

Hurts taxpayers by hiking the motor vehicle excise tax by 33 percent.

Damages economic-development efforts by raising the minimum wage to $8.45 and indexing the mandate to inflation in subsequent years.

Further regulates what should be a competitive marketplace for electricity by mandating that a "qualified independent evaluator" assist the PRC assessing whether procurement and bid procedures are "consistent with the public interest."

Helps patients with pain and/or epilepsy by excluding cannabidiol from the definition of marijuana.

Increases personal and economic freedom by broadening eligibility to obtain a medical-cannabis card, allowing interstate reciprocity for cardholders, and removing bureaucrats' authority to determine what an "adequate supply" of cannabis is.

Further entrenches welfarism by mandating that a "meal application" be distributed in "every school enrollment packet" and banning schools from publicly identifying or stigmatizing (?) "a student who cannot pay for a meal or who owes a meal debt."

Potentially increases taxes by raising the maximum royalty rate the Commissioner of Public Lands may impose on "premium development leases" to "not higher than one-fourth, but not less than three-sixteenths."

Deregulates check-cashing by lowering the licensing threshold for persons receiving under $2,500 within a thirty-day period.

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by appropriating $1.44 million for "the purchase and distribution of New Mexico-grown fresh fruits and fresh vegetables to school districts, charter schools and juvenile detention centers."

Hurts economic development by raising the statewide minimum wage to $9.00. (A "training" rate would be allowed, at $8.00, but that is still higher than the state's current minimum wage.)

Micromanages the financial sector by imposing a fee-based structure for all loans under $5,000 and eliminating payday loans.

Hurts economic development by stopping the phased reduction of the top corporate tax rate, thus keeping the rate permanently at 6.2 percent.

Enhances corporate welfare by reducing the acreage on which a film set must be located in order for producers to claim the film-production tax credit.

Expands corporate welfare by broadening the types of projects eligible to benefit from industrial revenue bonds.

Raises tax revenue by an estimated $31.6 million in the first fiscal year by (potentially unconstitutionally) imposing the GRT on purchases made from out-of-state vendors.

Potentially harms economic development by capping premium rates in the the workers' compensation insurance market at 4 percent of wages paid.

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by appropriating $4.7 million to Medicaid nursing homes to "meet minimum ... staffing standards" of "at least four and one-tenth hours of nursing care per patient day."

Hurts economic development by limiting the capital-gains deduction to $1,000.

Perpetuates corporate welfare by extending the "solar market development tax credit" through 2024 and increasing its "maximum annual aggregate" to $5 million.

Promotes economic development by prohibiting local governments from regulating the hours, schedules, and leave of workers in private employment.

Raises taxes and expands the Nanny State by removing the GRT exemption from foods with "minimal-to-no nutritional value."

Perpetuates corporate welfare and economic planning by creating -- and appropriating $1 million to -- the "business recruitment fund," charged with hiring "an independent agent to recruit businesses to locate to New Mexico."

Potentially disenfranchises the state's citizens by awarding New Mexico's Electoral College votes to the winner of the "largest national popular vote total."

Hurts economic development by mandating "a crew composed of at least two persons" for "the operation of a railroad train or locomotive in New Mexico."

Hurts transparency by making "sensitive and proprietary private entity customer information" maintained by the taxpayer boondoggle that is "Spaceport America" exempt from the public record.

Hurts economic development by imposing new, necessary regulations on scrap-metal dealers.

Further complicates the tax code and perpetuates corporate welfare by making changes to the tax credit for "green" electricity, including expansion to geothermal sources.

Hurts property rights by removing the State Engineer's authority to approve a water-use application prior to providing public notice and an opportunity for protests.

Hurts economic development by hiking the gasoline tax by 6¢ and diesel tax by 6¢, and earmarking the revenue equally to preschool, local/state spending on "roads," and the general fund.

Perpetuates corporate welfare and further complicates the tax code by creating the "New Jobs and Investment Tax Credit," applicable to companies that create 250 jobs and invest at least $50 million.

Perpetuates tax complexity and furthers nannying by limiting the GRT food deduction to items approved under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, as well as flour tortillas and "unprocessed meat, poultry and fish."

Protects private property by limiting eminent-domain seizures to public uses, which exclude "economic development, including an increase in tax base, tax revenues, employment or general economic health."

Hurts economic development and fiscal responsibility by creating the "Local Operational School Levy," which would permit school boards to authorize a property-tax levy for operational expenses.

Perpetuates unnecessary occupational licensure by extending the sunset date for the Interior Design Board and revising regulations for interior designers.

Worsens an already-precarious fiscal situation by appropriating $96.2 million to give raises to government employees, including state police, teachers, legislative workers, and transportation staff.

Perpetuates corporate welfare by amending the Economic Development Corporation Act to add tourism-promotion as a duty of the New Mexico Economic Development Partnership.

Boosts government transparency by expanding the Sunshine Portal to to include information about state employees, with exceptions for staffers who would be endangered by public release of their names.

Potentially raises costs for government schools by requiring the Public School Capital Outlay Council to develop a plan for solar energy for elementary-school buildings.

Perpetuates corporate welfare by creating the "Bioscience Authority Fund" to "encourage and foster economic development ... by attracting and encouraging the growth of bioscience industries and facilities."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by expanding the technology jobs and research and development tax credit to include "bioscience activities ... located within ten miles of a national laboratory or a research institution."

Boosts property rights and economic development by directing the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish to analyze the impact of listing species under the federal government's Endangered Species Act.

Boosts economic development by making New Mexico a right-to-work state.

Boosts economic development by making New Mexico a right-to-work state.

Further complicates the tax code by creating a GRT deduction for "receipts from the sale of services for construction of infrastructure on a military base to support a training mission involving F-16 tactical fighter jets."

Promotes fiscal and individual responsibility by restricting food-stamp purchases to items permitted under the women, infants and children program, as well as meat.

Hurts both economic development and fiscal accountability by raising the top income-tax rate to 8.2 percent.

Potentially disenfranchises the state's citizens by awarding New Mexico's Electoral College votes to the winner of the "largest national popular vote total."

Supports economic development by permitting restaurants to "allow a customer to bring onto and consume ... the customer's own bottle of wine that is not available on the menu."

Boosts economic development by authorizing the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules "for industrial hemp ... research and development purposes, including agricultural, agronomic, ecological, processing, sales and marketing research."

Makes all residents over the age of 65 eligible for a "free pass for unlimited entry into state parks or recreation areas."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by appropriating $125,000 to "expand performance excellence leadership training to New Mexico's workforce" and "expand assessment services and assistance to ... businesses and organizations."

Protects private property by establishing "cargo theft" (stealing "commercial goods conveyed by a vehicle") as a second-degree felony.

Further regulates healthcare by barring pharmacy benefits managers from charging pharmacies "a fee for any step or component of, or mechanism related to, the adjudication of a claim."

Hurts fiscal responsibility by requiring the Human Services Department to exclude behavioral-healthcare services "from any services that it provides" to Medicaid recipients via a managed-care system.

Increases government transparency by requiring the state engineer to post water-rights applications online.

Promotes accountability in and local control of government schooling by limiting the size of school districts to 40,000 students.

Squanders $300,000 on the the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority's regional housing authorities.

Damages government transparency by exempting "records that would reveal the identity of an applicant for public employment in this state" from the Inspection of Public Records Act.

Maintains tax-code complexity by extending the sunset date for the GRT deduction for "nonathletic special event[s] held at a venue that is located on the campus of a post-secondary educational institution within fifty miles of the New Mexico border."

Hurts economic development by hiking the gasoline tax by 10 cents and the diesel tax by 5 cents.

Regulates the free speech of independent organizations engaged in election communications.

Meddles with the private sector by asking the treasurer to establish a task force to consider a state-run "retirement savings vehicle for private-sector employees having limited or no access to a retirement savings arrangement at work."

Perpetuates economic planning and corporate welfare by encouraging "the development of a statewide energy road map" to "assist the state in determining how to develop ... a more viable energy future."

Potentially complicates an already byzantine tax architecture by requesting that state agencies "study the costs and benefits of various options for tax relief designed to attract retirees from other states."

Hurts fiscal responsibility by recommending that the "J. Paul Taylor early childhood task force," which is essentially a taxpayer-funded lobbying entity for ineffective and wasteful preschool programs, be reconvened.

Aids the left's campaign to restrict free speech in electioneering communications by requesting a constitutional convention to "propose an amendment to the United States constitution that would restore free and fair elections."

Promotes ineffective and counterproductive preschool policies by creating an "Early Childhood Education Department" via constitutional amendment.

Boosts personal and economic freedom by proposing an amendment to the constitution to permit possession and personal use of marijuana for those 21 and older, depending on legislative regulation of marijuana "to protect public health and safety."

Weakens both fiscal responsibility and promising school reforms by proposing an amendment to the constitution to devote a portion of the severance-tax fund to ineffective and counterproductive "early childhood care and education programs."

Devotes additional revenue from the Land Grant Permanent Fund to ineffective and expensive "early childhood education services."

Potentially raises taxes by proposing a constitutional amendment to raise the state maximum property-tax levy from 20 mills to 22 mills to spend more funds on the "state equalization guarantee" formula.

Potentially disenfranchises the state's citizens by awarding New Mexico's Electoral College votes, via a constitutional amendment, to the winner of the "largest national popular vote total."

Endorses further complication on the tax code by recommending that "meaningful financial assistance for informal and family caregivers through state or federal tax credits or other mechanisms be provided to ease the financial costs of caregiving."

Perpetuates corporate welfare by asking the Tourism and Economic Development Departments "to study the cost and potential economic impact of a state office of outdoor recreation."

Furthers ineffective and counterproductive preschool policies by directing the Early Learning Advisory Council to "study how to increase communication, coordination and collaboration among early childhood service providers."

Perpetuates social engineering and ineffective/counterproductive transportation by recognizing and congratulating "local and tribal governments, agencies and team members" committed to promoting and implementing "Complete Streets" policy.