Legislator
State Representative
Stephanie Maez
(D) - New Mexico
New Mexico House District 21
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| Category | Vote Index | Total Score |
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| All Bills | 42 |
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Rated Bill Votes
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Rating | Vote | Comments |
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| HB27 | Employment of former prc employees | House Final Passages | 02/05/2015 | 2 | Yea | Increases regulations on former Public Regulation Commission personnel. |
| HB41 | School grade promotion & retention | House Final Passage | 02/11/2015 | 3 | Nay | Ends social promotion of 3rd graders who cannot read and makes provisions for intervention and remediation. |
| HB43 | Penalties for dealing food stamps | House Final Passage | 02/16/2015 | 4 | Yea | Increases penalties for illegal trade in food stamps. |
| HB54 | Anesthesiology assistant definitions | House Final Passage | 02/16/2015 | 3 | Nay | Amends the Anesthesiologist Assistant Act by changing the definition of Anesthesiologist Assistant (AA) and removing the provisions which require, for the purposes of this act, that AAs practice only if they are employed by the University of New Mexico. |
| HB55 | Public works project wage calculations | House Final Passage | 03/14/2015 | 4 | Abstain | Repeals certain calculations under New Mexico's "Davis-Bacon" prevailing wage law, which arbitrarily sets above-market wage rates on public works projects. |
| HB75 | Employee preference act | House Final Passage | 02/25/2015 | 7 | Nay | Makes New Mexico a right-to-work state and increases the minimum wage by 50 cents to $8.00 an hour. |
| HB90 | Nutrition & dietetics board sunset date | House Final Passage | 02/26/2015 | -2 | Yea | Puts off the sunset date for the Nutrition and Dietetics Board. |
| HB106 | Concealed carry fingerprints & refreshers | House Final Passage | 03/02/2015 | 2 | Yea | Loosens restrictions imposed by the Concealed Handgun Carry Act. |
| HB148 | No smoking in cars with minors | House Final Passage | 02/26/2015 | -2 | Yea | Bans smoking in cars with children. |
| HB155 | Lobbyist employer registration | House Final Passage | 03/07/2015 | 2 | Yea | Increases transparency of lobbying activities at the legislature. |
| HB189 | Concealed carry license length & refreshers | House Final Passage | 03/02/2015 | 2 | Nay | Loosens restrictions imposed by the Concealed Handgun Carry Act. |
| HB201 | Add species to game fish | House Final Passage | 02/18/2015 | 2 | Yea | Adds striped bass and tilapia to the list of regulated fish, to promote the "aquaponics" industry. |
| HB219 | Out-of-state event gross receipts | House Final Passage | 03/03/2015 | -2 | Yea | Exempts "receipts from the performance of or admissions to recreational, athletic, or entertainment services that occur out of state" from the GRT. |
| HB235 | Use of public water & landowner protection | House Final Passage | 03/07/2015 | 3 | Nay | Requires written consent by landowners in order to walk or wade in streams. |
| HB238 | Workers' comp benefits & intoxication | House Final Passage | 02/19/2015 | 3 | Yea | Empowers workers' compensation judges to reduce benefits from 35 percent to 85 percent for workers who willfully or intentionally cause their own injuries. |
| HB241 | Public officials as lobbyists | House Final Passage | 03/09/2015 | 2 | Yea | Prohibit former PRC commissioners, legislators, and cabinet secretaries from lobbying work "for a period of calendar two years following the end of their service." |
| HB243 | Liquor licenses & definitions | House Final Passage | 03/07/2015 | 3 | Yea | Expands the freedoms of wineries and breweries. |
| HB263 | Geothermal renewable energy certificates | House Final Passage | 02/20/2015 | -2 | Yea | Allows "Renewable Energy Certificates" to be used by "rural electric distribution cooperatives for thermal energy originating from geothermal energy sources." |
| HB272 | Transportation network company services act | House Final Passage | 03/12/2015 | 4 | Yea | Advances the process for regulating ride-sharing services. |
| HB296 | Solar energy installation lease tax credit | House Final Passage | 03/03/2015 | -2 | Yea | Extends the "solar market development tax credit" for homes and small businesses "by allowing leased systems access to the credit." |
| HB299 | Public-private partnership act | House Final Passage | 03/11/2015 | 3 | Nay | Allows state and local governments to partner with the private sector for schools, hospitals, recreational facilities, parking lots, roads, habitat restoration, dams, pipelines, transmission lines, etc. |
| HB314 | Create local economic development fund | House Final Passage | 03/07/2015 | -2 | Yea | Creates a "local economic development fund." |
| HB333 | Equal opportunity scholarship & tax credits | House Final Passage | 03/14/2015 | 6 | Abstain | Establishes opportunity scholarships for low-income pupils. |
| HB339 | Small brewer & winegrower reciprocity | House Final Passage | 03/16/2015 | 2 | Yea | Allows small distillers and small brewers "to operate three off-premise locations." |
| HB349 | Dental health act changes & therapists | House Final Passage | 03/16/2015 | 2 | Yea | Establishes a new dental provider entitled, “dental therapist,” providing for licensure and scope of practice, supervisory requirements and agreement guidelines with a sponsoring dentist in order to practice as a dental therapist. |
| HB351 | Unreimbursed medical expense tax deduction | House Final Passage | 03/16/2015 | -2 | Yea | Creates an income-tax deduction "for certain unreimbursed or uncompensated medical care expenses." |
| HB366 | Oil & gas state preemption | House Final Passage | 03/10/2015 | 4 | Nay | Expressly declares the state's exclusive authority over oil and and gas. |
| HB378 | Require oral public comment at meetings | House Final Passage | 03/21/2015 | 2 | Yea | Requires that "a public body permit oral public comment at any meeting governed by the [Open Meeting Act], before final action is taken." |
| HB409 | Pregnant worker accommodation act | House Final Passage | 03/11/2015 | -3 | Yea | Mandates "reasonable accommodations" for pregnant employees. |
| HB429 | Lottery scholarships for home school | House Final Passage | 03/13/2015 | 4 | Nay | Allows homeschooled students access to the Lottery Tuition Fund. |
| HB441 | Taos ski valley bond sale | House Final Passage | 03/21/2015 | -2 | Yea | Authorizes the Village of Taos Ski Valley Tax Increment Development District to issue up to $44 million in tax-exempt bonds. |
| HB445 | Reduce renewable portfolio standards | House Final Passage | 03/12/2015 | 4 | Nay | Reduces state mandate for politically correct electricity from 20 percent to 15 percent. |
| HB482 | Reduce some unemployment benefits | House Final Passage | 03/16/2015 | 4 | Nay | Reforms unemployment benefits to restore solvency to the UI trust fund and bring New Mexico more in line with other states' formulas. |
| HB489 | Internet wine sales | House Final Passage | 03/04/2015 | 2 | Yea | Permits vintners to take orders via the Internet, "whether the financial transaction related to the order is administered by a licensee or a licensee's agent." |
| HB517 | Historically underutilized businesses | House Final Passage | 03/17/2015 | -3 | Yea | Promotes "full and equal business opportunities for all" by "encouraging and setting goals for the use of historically underutilized businesses by state agencies." |
| HB551 | Home inspector licensing act | House Final Passage | 03/17/2015 | -2 | Yea | Requires home inspectors to be licensed. |
| HB560 | Forfeiture procedures & reporting | House Final Passage | 03/17/2015 | 6 | Yea | Reforms asset-forfeiture procedures. |
| HM2 | Parental paid-leave working group | House Final Passage | 03/19/2015 | -2 | Yea | This Memorial requests UNM's BBER to convene a parental paid-leave working group to develop recommendations for the establishment of a publicly managed parenting workers' leave fund. |
| HM75 | Spaceport road as state road | House Final Passage | 03/18/2015 | -2 | Yea | Funds a study of classifying the road to "Spaceport America" as a state road and completing it. |
| HM105 | Support crude oil export ban relief | House Final Passage | 03/20/2015 | 3 | Yea | Requests that the congressional delegation support lifting the federal ban on oil exports. |
| HM127 | Study ongoing costs of railrunner | House Final Passage | 03/21/2015 | 2 | Nay | Requests a DOT study on the costs of the Rail Runner, the feasibility of privatizing the line, and possible "benefits of replacing [it] with a reestablished commuter bus service." |
| SB8 | Charter school education tech equipment | House Final Passage | 03/20/2015 | 1 | Yea | Makes charter schools eligible to receive certain education technology equipment. |
| SB70 | Airline employee shifts and hours | House Final Passage | 03/19/2015 | 1 | Yea | Makes permanent the overtime exemption for "airline employees who work more than 40 hours in a week due to voluntarily trading shifts with other employees." |
| SB94 | Industrial hemp farming act | House Final Passage | 03/20/2015 | 2 | Yea | Provides for licensing the growing, selling, and processing of industrial hemp. |
| SB105 | County gross receipts for school improvements | House Final Passage | 03/19/2015 | -2 | Yea | Creates the "authority to impose a special county education gross receipts tax of 0.75 percent." |
| SB208 | Fraud against taxpayers definitions | House Final Passage | 03/19/2015 | 3 | Yea | Amends the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act to clarify that "state," for purposes of the act, includes local governments, government schools, and other recipients of state funds. |
| SB238 | Craft brewer licenses | House Final Passage | 03/18/2015 | 2 | Yea | Allows a small brewer or winegrower "that also holds a dispenser or restaurant license to additionally hold a Small Brewer and Winegrowers Limited Wholesaler License." |
| SB241 | Certain liquor license transfer limits | House Final Passage | 03/18/2015 | 2 | Yea | Loosens controls over liquor-dispenser licenses. |
| SB249 | Geothermal renewable energy certificates | House Final Passage | 03/20/2015 | -2 | Yea | Allows "Renewable Energy Certificates" to be used by "rural electric distribution cooperatives for thermal energy originating from geothermal energy sources." |
| SB271 | Out-of-state event gross receipts | House Final Passage | 03/20/2015 | -2 | Yea | Exempts "receipts from the performance of or admissions to recreational, athletic, or entertainment services that occur out of state" from the GRT. |
| SB275 | Board of body art practitioners | House Final Passage | 03/19/2015 | -2 | Yea | Creates the "Board of Body Art Practitioners" and "Body Art Practitioner Fund" with a sunset date of July 1, 2021. |
| SB279 | Sustainable building tax credits | House Final Passage | 03/19/2015 | -2 | Yea | Extends and modifies the "Sustainable Building Tax Credit." |
| SB318 | Sunset dates for certain agencies | House Final Passage | 03/19/2015 | -2 | Yea | Extends the sunset date for seven boards, including the Massage Therapy Board and Athletic Trainers Practice Board. |
| SB352 | Utility economic development rates | House Final Passage | 03/18/2015 | -2 | Yea | Allows gas and electric utilities to offer "economic development rates" without the requirement for excess capacity. |
| SB391 | Extend solar market development tax credit | House Final Passage | 03/20/2015 | -2 | Yea | Extends the sunset of the "Solar Market Development Tax Credit" by four years. |
| SB440 | Small brewer & winegrower reciprocity | House Final Passage | 03/20/2015 | 2 | Yea | Allows "winegrowers and small brewers to obtain wine or beer directly from a winegrower or small brewer without going through a licensed New Mexico wholesaler." |
| SB448 | Military acquisition gross receipts end dates | House Final Passage | 03/18/2015 | -2 | Yea | Extends GRT deduction "from transformational acquisition programs performing research and development, test and evaluation at New Mexico Major Range." |
| SB471 | Brewer facility alternating proprietorship | House Final Passage | 03/20/2015 | 2 | Yea | Allow "alternating proprietorships to be established so that manufacturing facilities and equipment of a small brewer licensee may be used by another small brewer licensee to produce beer." |
| SB503 | Beer & wine delivery licenses | House Final Passage | 03/19/2015 | 2 | Yea | Creates beer and wine delivery licenses, given approval by "a majority of qualified voters" in a local-option district. |
| SB565 | Limit film production tax credit | House Final Passage | 03/18/2015 | 1 | Yea | Clarifies and limits production expenses that are eligible for the film tax credit. |
Rated Sponored Bills
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