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State Senator
David Gallegos
(R) - New Mexico
New Mexico Senate District 41
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New Mexico State Capitol
490 Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone: 505-986-4877

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P.O. Box 998
Eunice, NM 88231
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Vote Record By Category
Category Vote Index Total Score
Energy 77
7
 
Business 80
6
 
State Government 65
6
 
Regulations and Licensing 69
5
 
Budget 59
5
 
Economy 75
4
 
Native Americans 70
4
 
Privacy Rights 100
3
 
Constitution 100
3
 
Transparency 100
2
 
Water 100
2
 
Controlled Substances 100
1
 
Local Government 67
1
 
Military and Veterans 100
1
 
Courts 0
0
Labor 0
0
Transportation 33
-1
 
Criminal Law 33
-1
 
Environment 0
-1
 
Health Care 25
-2
 
Housing 0
-2
 
Elections 25
-2
 
Children 0
-2
 
Taxes 43
-2
 
Education 43
-3
 
Pensions 25
-4
 
All Bills 56
16
 
Rated Bill Votes
Bill Bill Name Motion Vote Date Rating Vote Comments
HB2 General Appropriation Act Of 2022 Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 -4 Nay The bill increases the state budget by 13.8% and authorizes spending $8.47 billion for operation of state government in fiscal year 2023. This includes a 7% raise for all state and education employees.
HB7 Opportunity Enterprise Act Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -2 Nay The bill authorizes spending up to $20 million a year and creates the Opportunity Enterprise Act and the opportunity enterprise review board to work with the New Mexico Finance Authority and the Economic Development Department to provide financing, leases, loans, and revolving funds to applicants who qualify.
HB8 Land Grant-merced Assistance Fund Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 -1 Abstain The bill creates the land grant assistance fund and earmarks $1.5 million a year in distribution of gross receipts tax revenue for the fund.
HB13 Teacher Residency Changes Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -1 Yea The bill increases various stipends for teaching residents, classroom teachers, principals and administrators; and requires the public education dept. to partner with approved teacher preparation programs to create residency programs. It also allows undergraduate seniors and graduates or professionals without a teaching license.
HB15 Tribal Gross Receipts Rates Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 1 Nay The bill will require tribal gross receipts taxes be equal to or higher, instead of equal to or lower, than the rates of towns they border in order to receive a 75% tax credit against gross receipts tax due the state.
HB22 Limited English Access To State Programs Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -1 Yea The bill requires state department secretaries to develop and implement language plans to make sure those who don't speak English well can access state programs.
HB37 Community Energy Efficiency Dev Block Grant Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -2 Nay The bill authorizes spending $15 million on creation of a new block grant program for counties, towns and Indian tribes and pueblos for community energy efficiency projects, based on income and other criteria.
HB39 Grt Deduction For Nonathletic Special Events Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -1 Yea The bill will extend the gross receipts tax deduction for non-athletic special events at New Mexico State University's Pan American Center for five more years, in order to prevent the events from going to nearby Texas.
HB42 Public Project Revolving Fund Projects Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -1 Yea The bill authorizes the New Mexico Finance Authority to provide loans from the Public Project Revolving Loan Fund to 187 state and local entities. The bill also requires that a listed entity must have certified to the NMFA its desire to pursue a loan for a listed project by the end of FY 25, or the authorization for the loan is void.
HB43 Charter School Facility Improvements Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 1 Yea The bill requires school districts to make facilities not being used or planned for use for educational purposes available for lease or purchase by charter schools.
HB46 Family Representation And Advocacy Act Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -1 Yea The bill create the a new independent Office of Family Representation and Advocacy (OFRA) for the representing children and families in abuse and neglect matters. OFRA will appoint and pay attorneys and other staff to assist and represent parents and children in child welfare cases.
HB52 Harm Reduction Act Amendments Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 -1 Nay The bill expands the scope of the health department's Harm Reduction, or needle exchange, program to other activities and equipment in order to reduce the adverse effects of substance abuse and opioid deaths, with no cost specified.
HB56 Temporary Veterinary Permits Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 1 Yea The bill will allow up to two temporary six-month permits for non-resident veterinarians working with state and local government to provide veterinary services at the Albuquerque Bio Park.
HB57 2023 Transportation Distribution Calculations Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -1 Yea The bill requires that schools receive the same transportation funding they received in the last two fiscal years regardless of changes to mileage or student ridership, which is estimated to be 10,000 fewer. This means schools will receive a $6.8 million increase in transportation funding when it would otherwise be reduced by $5 million.
HB60 Native American Language Certificate Salaries Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -1 Yea The bill raises the salary of teachers with a 520 certificate (Native American language and culture) to that of a level 2 teacher license salary, which is $60,000, at a project cost of more than $3.5 million a year.
HB62 Grant Opportunities Council Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -1 Nay The bill creates the grant opportunity council to advise on and figure out how to obtain and spend more federal money.
HB67 Tech Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -1 Yea The bill moves the end of the technology readiness gross receipts tax credit for the national labs from July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2032.
HB68 Criminal Code Changes Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 1 Yea The bill creates the new crime of criminal threat, defined as a statement intending to cause evacuation, lockdown or disruption of a school, home, church, business public building or other public places, cause physical injury or property damage. The bill makes this crime a fourth degree felony.
HB73 Educational Retirees Returning To Work Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -2 Nay The bill allows retired members of the Educational Retirement Board to "double dip" by returning to work with an ERB-affiliated employer and still receive their pension benefits. The returning employees could work for up to 36 consecutive or nonconsecutive months so long as they haven't worked for an ERB-affiliated employer for the previous 90 days.
HB82 Dialysis Facility Gross Receipts Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 -1 Abstain The bill makes the gross receipts tax deduction for dialysis services permanent.
HB95 Health- Easy Enrollment Act Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -3 Yea The bill seeks to expand the Medicaid rolls by giving taxpayers a way to transfer their eligibility information to the human services department or health exchange via their income tax forms, at an estimated cost of more than $330 million a year
HB102 Entity-level Tax Income & Payment Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -2 Yea The bill would subsidize the Tesla dealership on the Nambe pueblo by allowing a state tax credit for excise taxes paid on a car.
HB104 Venture Capital Program Act Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -1 Yea The bill creates the Venture Capital Investment Act and fund under the New Mexico Finance Authority, to make investments in new or expanding businesses in the state that create new jobs. These investments are required to be made with venture private equity funds or with New Mexico businesses, to achieve the economic objectives of the state.
HB119 Adjust Certain School Distributions Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -2 Yea The bill would change the school funding formula calculation to increase guaranteed funds for school facilities, based on school districts implementing two mill levy ($1 per thousand of property value) tax, increasing the state distribution of funds by approximately $11 million.
HB132 Interest Rates For Certain Loans Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -4 Nay The bill caps interest rates for small or "payday" loans at 36%, instead of $175%, raises the cap on loan amounts from $5,000 to $10,000, and makes other changes.
HB134 Reinstitute Sports Authority Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -1 Yea The bill will authorize spending $1 million to reinstate the Sports Authority Division in the state tourism department, this time with 7 members appointed by the Secretary of Tourism instead of 25 appointed by the Governor.
HB148 Small Business Recovery Loan Applications Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 3 Yea The bill extends the application deadline for the Small Business Recovery Loan Fund from May 31, 2022 to December 31, 2022, for businesses recovering from the government mandated shutdown during Covid-19.
HB153 General Obligation Bond Projects Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -2 Yea The bill authorizes $258.8 million in general obligation bonds to spend on senior centers, library resources and school facilities for higher and tribal education, to be voted on by the public.
HB163 Tax Changes Senate Final Passage 02/17/2022 4 Yea The bill authorizes a one-time personal income tax rebate for every taxpayer from between $250 to $500, gives various other tax exemptions or credits including military pension payments and social security income, and reduces gross receipts tax.
HB164 Uranium Mine Cleanup Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -1 Yea The bill would authorize spending $350,000 a year - not including cleanup - to begin coordinating clean up and reclamation of legacy uranium mine and mill sites, much of which is being done by the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Dept. and the federal government. See also SB89.
HB167 Tribe & Pueblo Car Excise Tax Credit Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 -2 Nay The bill creates a gross receipts tax credit for vehicles purchased on Native American land which would subsidize the Tesla dealership that is expected to be developed on the Nambe Pueblo.
HB171 Rural Air Svc. Enhancement Grant Changes Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -1 Yea The bill authorizes spending $15 million to make more and larger grants to counties and towns for longer periods of time, for adding and expanding air routes and adding larger planes to seat up to 30 people instead of nine.
HB180 Repeal Part Of Ipra Law On Notarial Acts Senate Final Passage 02/15/2022 1 Yea The bill would protect individual privacy by no longer allowing the public access to certain transactions by a notary that contain personal information, and limit the ability of the public to inspect such journals and acts, with certain exceptions for law enforcement.
HB191 Professional & Occupational Licensure Changes Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 4 Yea The bill eliminates state residency requirements in new occupational licenses and license renewals, allows for expedited for license holders in good standing in areas outside the state, and makes numerous other changes making it easier to obtain and keep state licenses for making a living in one's chosen field or profession.
HJM1 Consider Drought In Federal Ag Policy Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 1 Yea The memorial requests the state's congressional delegation to consider the impact of drought when setting federal agricultural policy, including the U.S. Farm Bill.
HJR1 Public Assistance For Household Svcs., Ca Senate Final Passage 02/16/2022 -3 Nay The resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to allow state government to pay and the people to vote on whether they can receive taxpayer funds for internet, utility and sewer bills, at unknown but possible $100 million cost per year.
SB1 Increasing Salary For Licensed Teachers Senate Final Passage 02/05/2022 -3 Yea The bill will increase salaries for licensed teachers by $10,000 per year.
SB2 Judicial Retirement Changes Senate Final Passage 02/09/2022 -1 Yea The bill puts an additional $45 million into the judicial and magistrate retirement funds, and increases a state Supreme Court justice's salary to be equal to a federal magistrate judge's salary, which is $201,000.
SB4 Prevailing Wage And Fringe Benefit Rates Senate Final Passage 02/02/2022 1 Abstain The bill sets deadlines for the Workforce Solutions Dept. (unemployment) to set prevailing wage rates for public contract employees.
SB6 Election Security & Administration Senate Final Passage 02/03/2022 1 Yea The bill makes numerous changes to election law, including restricting the use of forms to those issued by the Secretary of State; requiring teams of election judges to have two from different political parties; and allows identification issued by state, federal or tribal governments only for registering to vote.
SB7 State Employee Minimum Wage Senate Final Passage 02/11/2022 -2 Nay The bill authorizes spending $85 million more a year on state government and higher education employee wages, setting the minimum wage for those employees at $15 an hour.
SB12 Ag Office For Missing Indigenous Persons Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 1 Yea The bill requires the state Attorney General. to assist with investigating and prosecuting missing person cases where one or more missing Native American persons are believed to be victims, creates an online network and database of missing Native American persons and makes other related changes.
SB13 "missing In New Mexico Event" Senate Final Passage 01/28/2022 1 Yea The bill authorizes creation of a "Missing in New Mexico" event in support of those who have missing relatives and to allow them the opportunity to meet with an investigator.
SB14 Enacting The Clean Fuel Standard Act Senate Final Passage 02/03/2022 -8 Nay The bill authorizes spending of $650,000 to create a Climate Change Bureau, and another $420 million a year implementing a new "clean fuel standard." It will require transportation fuels for motor vehicles, special equipment and business that produce or import those fuels to meet a minimum 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2030, and 30% by 2040.
SB34 Threat Of Shooting Senate Final Passage 02/12/2022 -1 Yea The bill makes it a misdemeanor to make a shooting threat.
SB35 Appointment Of Temporary Guardians Senate Final Passage 02/09/2022 1 Yea The bill extends the lease between the New Mexico State Fair and the Downs at Albuquerque incorporated for the racetrack, grandstand, and casino area of the State Fairgrounds until February 28, 2047.
SB36 Contributions To Educational Retirement Fund Senate Final Passage 02/09/2022 -4 Yea The bill increases employer contributions by 2 percent in fiscal year 2023 and by 1 percent in fiscal year 2024 for a total increase of 3 percent.
SB37 Public Project Revolving Fund Appropriations Senate Final Passage 02/01/2022 1 Yea The bill authorizes directing $9 million from the public project revolving fund to water and water project related funds, and $5 million for cultural affairs facilities, leveraging a total of $46 million in federal funds.
SB38 Early Childhood Education Dept Authorizations Senate Final Passage 02/08/2022 1 Abstain The bill authorizes the Early Childhood Education and Care Department to set rules for criminal background checks for those applying for child care employment, volunteering, or licensure or registration as a childcare facility from the department.
SB39 Procurement Preferences Changes Senate Final Passage 02/08/2022 1 Yea The bill adds Native American resident veteran and contractor owned businesses with $6 million or less per year in gross revenue to those eligible to receive permanent preference for doing business with the state.
SB40 Health Care Quality Surcharge Act Changes Senate Final Passage 02/07/2022 -2 Yea The bill makes the Health Care Quality Surcharge Permanent. This is a bed-tax on nursing homes and other facilities for those with intellectual disabilities, from which the revenue is distributed in such a way as to get more federal money.
SB41 College Research Park & Econ Dev Act Changes Senate Final Passage 02/05/2022 -3 Abstain The bill makes health care facilities owned by the nine research park corporations at four of New Mexico's universities public employers, giving employees collective bargaining rights through the state. instead of the National Labor Relations Act.
SB43 Prohibiting Life Without Parole For A Child Senate Final Passage 02/08/2022 1 Nay The bill will no longer allow children convicted of first -degree murder to be sentenced to life without parole.
SB48 Gen Appropriations And Auth Expenditures Senate Final Passage 02/10/2022 -1 Yea The bill authorizes spending an additional $25.2 million in general spending on operations of various state agencies.
SB69 Job Creation Reporting Requirements Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 2 Yea The bill requires all entities receiving government funds to report to the Taxation and Revenue department for five years the number of new full-time jobs, wages, and capital investments and requires the secretary of tax and rev to present a tax expenditures budget to the Governor by Oct. 15 each year, and other changes.
SB84 Construction Manager General Contractor Act Senate Final Passage 02/11/2022 1 Abstain The bill will allow the Secretary of Transportation to choose a construction manager general contractor separately from sealed bid contracts for project delivery services and independent cost services, at a guaranteed maximum price.
SB100 Cannabis Regulation Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 1 Nay The bill allows local government to regulate where recreational marijuana shops can open, requires criminal background checks on those applying for a license to have these stores, increases the number of mature plants a micro business is allowed to produce from 200 to 1000, allows owners of businesses that serve alcohol to apply for a license to grow marijuana, and makes other regulations.
SB103 Workforce Solutions Staff Background Checks Senate Final Passage 02/09/2022 1 Yea The bill will require the Workforce Solutions Dept. to obtain fingerprints on any employee or prospective employee contractor who has access to federal tax information, in order to have the Dept. of Public Safety and the FBI to run a criminal background check.
SB134 Nm Housing Trust Fund Senate Final Passage 02/07/2022 -2 Yea The bill earmarks 2.5 percent of the annual severance tax bond capacity for the New Mexico Housing Trust Fund
SB135 Limit Certain State Fund Transfers Senate Final Passage 02/10/2022 -4 Nay The bill makes it easier for the Legislature to spend more money by transferring money that would normally go into the operating reserve fund into the tax stabilization reserve fund, until the fund reaches 20% of the previous year's spending, reducing the estimated rate of investment return by more than $17 million per year.
SB137 Distribute Part Of Grt On Svcs To Munis Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 -4 Yea The bill creates a new Opportunity Scholarship and fund to pay for a free college education for any student taking at least six hours and maintaining at least a 2.5 grade post average.
SB138 Medical & Health Care Gross Receipts Senate Final Passage 02/05/2022 -1 Yea The bill allows a gross receipts tax deduction for payments from a Medicare contractor for certain medical and healthcare services for hospices and nursing homes.
SB140 Opportunity Scholarship Act Senate Final Passage 02/13/2022 -6 Nay The bill replaces the legislative endowment scholarship and the college affordability scholarship with the Opportunity Scholarship, to give free college tuition and fees to anyone taking between six and 18 hours and keeping a 2.5 grade point average.
SB141 Emergency Filling Of Lp Gas Containers Senate Final Passage 02/07/2022 -3 Yea The bill requires the Liquified Petroleum and Compressed Gas Bureau to receive customer complaints against gas dispensing companies and allowing the Bureau to oversee and monitor the companies to ensure timely delivery to customers. It requires companies to deliver gas to customers within 48 hours in an emergency or the Bureau can authorize another dispenser to fill that company's cans, and requires the companies to provide a list of their customers to the Bureau.
SB144 Intimidation Of Election Workers Senate Final Passage 02/07/2022 -3 Yea The bill will make it a fourth degree felony to commit acts of intimidation against employees and agents of the Secretary of State, county clerks, and municipal clerks’ offices.
SB158 Anatomical Gift Discrimination Senate Final Passage 02/08/2022 2 Abstain The bill prohibits discrimination in organ donation against those who have a disability and need life-saving organ transplants.
SB159 Legislative Retirement Changes Senate Final Passage 02/08/2022 -1 Yea The bill increases the pension paid to legislators from 11% to 14% of the per diem rate (for daily expense reimbursement), or, currently, from $11,000 to $14,000 a year.
SB174 Freight Trailers In Right Hand Hwy Lane Senate Final Passage 02/09/2022 -1 Nay The bill will require truck tractors attached to a freight trailer to drive in the right-hand lane on interstate highways, except when otherwise required by law, and allows a $200 fine for violations.
SB198 Transfer Transportation Regulation From Prc Senate Final Passage 02/14/2022 1 Nay The bill transfers all responsibility, resources and property related to railroad safety enforcement, ambulance standards and motor carrier regulation from the Public Regulation Commission to the Department of Transportation, at a cost of $2 million.
SB243 Family Income Index Distribution Uses Senate Final Passage 02/13/2022 -2 Yea The bill removes restrictions on certain "family index" funds for public schools, allowing them to spend them how they choose instead of requiring a certain percentage for reading and mathematics.
SJR3 Appointed Appellate Judge Requirements, Ca Senate Final Passage 02/05/2022 -1 Abstain The bill proposes to amend the constitution to allow an appointed judge to serve at least one year before a general election is held for that seat.
SJR10 Extend Downs At Abq Lease Senate Final Passage 02/09/2022 1 Nay The resolution extends the lease between the New Mexico State Fair and the Downs at Albuquerque for the racetrack, grandstand and casino on the State Fair grounds until February 28, 2047.
SM1 Paid Family And Medical Leave Task Force Senate Final Passage 02/11/2022 -1 Nay The memorial authorizes spending $160,000 on a Workforce Solutions Department task force to develop recommendations for implementing laws to require employers to pay for more family and medical leave for their employees.
SR1 Senate Rule Changes Senate Final Passage 01/19/2022 -2 Nay The bill will require senators to dress in business attire even if attending floor sessions remotely via electronic means.
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