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Rod Montoya
(R) - New Mexico
New Mexico House District 01
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325 Don Gaspar Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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Vote Record By Category
Category Vote Index Total Score
Economy 100
7
 
Energy 77
7
 
Regulations and Licensing 75
6
 
Business 92
5
 
Constitution 100
3
 
Courts 88
3
 
Criminal Law 80
3
 
Elections 88
3
 
State Government 60
3
 
Transparency 100
3
 
Water 100
2
 
Labor 75
2
 
Budget 52
1
 
Transportation 67
1
 
Privacy Rights 100
1
 
Property Rights 50
0
Military and Veterans 50
0
Native Americans 50
0
Housing 50
0
Children 50
0
Controlled Substances 25
-1
 
Education 47
-1
 
Environment 0
-1
 
Pensions 45
-1
 
Local Government 33
-2
 
Health Care 25
-3
 
Law Enforcement 10
-4
 
Taxes 27
-10
 
All Bills 60
29
 
Rated Bill Votes
Bill Bill Name Motion Vote Date Rating Vote Comments
HB2 General Appropriation Act Of 2022 House Final Passage 02/03/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/04/2022 -1 Yea 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 House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/04/2022 1 Yea 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 House Final Passage 02/09/2022 -1 Nay 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 House Final Passage 02/05/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/05/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 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 House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -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.
HB47 Exclude Home Health Care From Dsb Sourcing House Final Passage 02/05/2022 2 Absent The bill would reduce the burden on taxpayers who provide home health and hospice services by requiring that gross receipts tax be determined by the location of the one providing the service instead of there the service is given.
HB52 Harm Reduction Act Amendments House Final Passage 02/05/2022 -1 Absent 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.
HB55 Public-private Partnership Act House Final Passage 02/08/2022 1 Yea At a cost of an estimated $500,000 a year, the bill will allow public and private partners to work together and building and improving broadband telecommunications networks. It also sets the criteria for how those partnerships will work.
HB56 Temporary Veterinary Permits House Final Passage 02/08/2022 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 House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/11/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/11/2022 -1 Absent The bill creates the grant opportunity council to advise on and figure out how to obtain and spend more federal money.
HB65 Housing Modernization Changes House Final Passage 02/05/2022 -4 Absent The bill restricts and removes some rights of property owners by reducing and capping the late fees that can be charged to renters, requiring increased time periods for late payments and vacating a property and makes numerous other changes.
HB67 Tech Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit House Final Passage 02/08/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 1 Nay 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.
HB69 Create Crime Of Operating A Chop Shop House Final Passage 02/10/2022 3 Yea The bill creates a new crime of operating a chop shop, making it a third degree felony, and a new crime of criminal damage to stolen property, or theft or attempted theft of regulated material. Penalties range from petty misdemeanor to fourth degree felony.
HB71 Limit Property Tax Valuation Increase House Final Passage 02/09/2022 -4 Nay The bill raises the cap on annual property tax increases for properties that are not the owner's primary residence from three percent to ten percent.
HB73 Educational Retirees Returning To Work House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -2 Yea 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.
HB79 Second Degree Murder Time & Sentencing House Final Passage 02/11/2022 1 Yea The bill removes the statute of limitations on second-degree murder and increases the sentence from 15 to 18 years.
HB81 Fine, Fee & Cost Payment Flexibility House Final Passage 02/08/2022 -2 Nay The bill requires criminal sentencing courts to base fines and fees on a convicted person's ability to pay, capping them at 2% of income or $10 a month. It expands training, education and rehabilitation in lieu of community service and makes other changes.
HB82 Dialysis Facility Gross Receipts House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -1 Yea The bill makes the gross receipts tax deduction for dialysis services permanent.
HB84 Crime Reduction Grant Purposes House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -1 Yea The bill expands the Crime Reduction Grant Act by expanding the purposes for awarding grants to including recruiting and retaining law enforcement officers, creating crisis intervention teams, staffing a criminal justice coordinating council and other programs.
HB86 Law Enforcement Retention Fund House Final Passage 02/09/2022 1 Absent The bill authorizes creation of the the Law Enforcement Retention Fund, and one-time payments equal to five percent of an officer's annual salary every five years as incentive to remain on staff with his or her agency. Estimated cost is $3.5 million a year.
HB95 Health- Easy Enrollment Act House Final Passage 02/09/2022 -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
HB96 Violence Intervention Program Act House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -1 Nay The bill creates a new violence intervention program and grant fund and sets criteria for how the funds will be distributed, at an estimated cost of $1.7 to $10.7 million a year.
HB99 Crime Of Threatening A Judge House Final Passage 02/11/2022 1 Yea The bill creates a new crimes of threatening a judge or an immediate family member of a judge, making it a fourth degree felony, and maliciously sharing personal information of a judge or an immediate family member of a judge - a misdemeanor.
HB102 Entity-level Tax Income & Payment House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -1 Nay 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.
HB112 Substance Use Disorder Pgms & Clinics House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -1 Yea The bill authorizes spending $917,800 to renovate a facility in San Miguel County for substance abuse programs.
HB119 Adjust Certain School Distributions House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -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.
HB124 Create Additional Judgeships House Final Passage 02/10/2022 1 Yea The bill creates two new district judgeships, one each in the 5th judicial and 13th judicial district courts to handle growth in population and case loads in those areas.
HB132 Interest Rates For Certain Loans House Final Passage 02/07/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/14/2022 4 Nay 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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -2 Yea 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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/10/2022 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 House Final Passage 02/12/2022 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.
HB243 Public Peace, Health, Safety & Welfare House Final Passage 02/12/2022 3 Nay The bill removes incentive for early retirement of police, corrections, firefighters and related employees and adds incentive for delayed retirement by increasing their pension benefit from 90% to 100% of salary if they continue to work another three to five years.
HCR1 Availability Of Comm. Analysis & Amendments House Final Passage 02/10/2022 1 Yea The resolution increases government transparency by requiring that analysis and fiscal impact reports, substitute legislation and amendments for bills be made available online as soon as practicable, and that amendments and bill substitutes be kept online even if they do not pass.
HJM1 Consider Drought In Federal Ag Policy House Final Passage 02/10/2022 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 House Final Passage 02/10/2022 -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.
HR1 House Rule Changes House Final Passage 01/18/2022 -1 Yea The bill allows members of the House to attend floor sessions electronically if they have Covid, are at high risk, or meet other qualifications, subject to approval by the Speaker of the House.
SB1 Increasing Salary For Licensed Teachers House Final Passage 02/14/2022 -3 Yea The bill will increase salaries for licensed teachers by $10,000 per year.
SB2 Judicial Retirement Changes House Final Passage 02/15/2022 -1 Nay 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 House Final Passage 02/15/2022 1 Nay The bill sets deadlines for the Workforce Solutions Dept. (unemployment) to set prevailing wage rates for public contract employees.
SB12 Ag Office For Missing Indigenous Persons House Final Passage 02/16/2022 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" House Final Passage 02/14/2022 1 Absent 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 House Final Passage 02/17/2022 -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.
SB35 Appointment Of Temporary Guardians House Final Passage 02/15/2022 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 House Final Passage 02/15/2022 -4 Nay 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 House Final Passage 02/14/2022 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 House Final Passage 02/16/2022 1 Yea 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 House Final Passage 02/14/2022 1 Absent 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 House Final Passage 02/16/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/16/2022 -3 Nay 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.
SB48 Gen Appropriations And Auth Expenditures House Final Passage 02/14/2022 -1 Yea The bill authorizes spending an additional $25.2 million in general spending on operations of various state agencies.
SB84 Construction Manager General Contractor Act House Final Passage 02/16/2022 1 Yea 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.
SB103 Workforce Solutions Staff Background Checks House Final Passage 02/15/2022 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 House Final Passage 02/15/2022 -2 Absent The bill earmarks 2.5 percent of the annual severance tax bond capacity for the New Mexico Housing Trust Fund
SB138 Medical & Health Care Gross Receipts House Final Passage 02/15/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/16/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/14/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/17/2022 -3 Nay 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.
SB159 Legislative Retirement Changes House Final Passage 02/14/2022 -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 House Final Passage 02/16/2022 -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.
SJR3 Appointed Appellate Judge Requirements, Ca House Final Passage 02/15/2022 -1 Absent 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 House Final Passage 02/17/2022 1 Yea 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.
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