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ACTION COMMITTEE 2009
LWVNM advocacy is coordinated by the Action Committee.
All League members are invited to participate in the Action Committee,
whether or not they wish to become registered League
lobbyists.
The Action Committee meets by phone on Fridays at 1 p.m. during the
legislative session, and monthly throughout the year. To join this conference
call from your city, please get in touch with the president of your
local League.
You can also receive Action Alerts by sending a message to
Action listserv.
Priorities
The League will be following legislative initiatives in a number of
areas this year. The Action Committee and the LWVNM board have identified the following priorities:
- Election and ethics reform
- Health care
- Social policy: repeal of the death penalty, domestic partnership legislation, and freedom of choice.
We will also be following bills dealing with education, natural resources and drug policy.
Emphasis may vary depending on what legislation is actually introduced.
2009 Legislation
Below, + indicates a bill actively supported by LWVNM, while
× indicates one that we actively oppose.
A handful of additional bills are included for reference. The committee name in
red indicates the current location of the bill.
Download the appropriate
legislative agenda
(House Committees, Senate Committees, House Floor, Senate Floor, HAFC) in order to
find out if the bill is scheduled for a hearing. These agendas usually cover meetings coming up
in the next two days, although some committees report their agendas farther in advance than that.
Near the end of the session agendas may be posted only the night before a meeting.
| Election Reform
fact sheet
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| + |
HB 52 |
Same day voter registration (Trujillo)
Hpassed/SRC 3/16 8:00 Rm 321/SJC |
| + |
HB 395 |
Same day voter registration (Cervantes)
Superceded by HVEC substitute for HB 52 |
| + |
SJR 15 |
Bipartisan redistricting commission, CA (Adair)
SRC/SJC |
| + |
SB 72 |
Post-election voting accuracy evaluation (McSorley)
Spassed/Hpassed |
| + |
HB 651 |
Felon voting rights immediately after prison
HCPAC w/o rec/HJC |
| × |
HB 591 |
Voter identification requirements (Hamilton)
HVEC-tabled/HJC/HAFC |
| × |
SB 690 |
Require voter identification (Duran)
SRC/SJC |
| |
HB 383 |
Enact agreement for popular vote (Stewart)
Hpassed/SJC/SRC
LWV is currently studying this issue and has taken no position on the National Popular Vote Compact |
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| Ethics and Campaign Financing Reform
fact sheet
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| + |
SB 165 |
Public Campaign Act (E Griego)
SRC tabled/SJC/SFC |
| + |
HB 252 |
Political contributions to candidates (Park)
HVEC-CS/HJC
Substitute also replaces
HB 495 |
| + |
SB 116 |
Limit contributions to candidates and PACs (Feldman)
Spassed/HVEC/HJC
Substitute replaces
SB 262,
SB 346,
SB 521 as well as SB 116. Sunsets in two years (this might be amended by SJC.) |
| |
HB 151 |
State Ethics Commission Act (Park)
Hpassed/SRC
HAFC substitute: While similar overall to the HJC substitute, this version has a special
section dealing with complaints against legislators. There is also a new sub-section under
limits of jurisdiction declaring that the Commission may not consider complaints against a
candidate for public office between the primary filing date and the general election. |
| + |
SB 139
| State Ethics Commission Act (P Campos)
SRC/SFC
Commission would have subpoena power |
| |
SB 140 |
State Ethics Commission Act (Feldman)
SRC/SJC/SFC
Senate counterpart of original HB 151 |
| |
SB 557 |
State Ethics Commission Act (Lopez)
SRC/SJC/SFC
This version would sunset in 2011 |
| + |
SB 263 |
Contractor disclosure of contributions (Beffort)
Spassed/HCPAC/HJC
Committee substitute also replaces
SB 296 |
| + |
SB 150 |
Open Conference Committees (Feldman)
SRC/SPAC |
| + |
HB 393 |
Open Conference Committees (Cervantes)
Hpassed/Spassed |
| + |
SB 737 |
Open Conference Committees (Feldman)
SPAC-CS/Scal
SPAC substitute is like HB 395. |
| + |
HM 62 |
House roll call votes on legislative web site (Anderson)
HHGAC/HJC |
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| Health Care
fact sheet
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| + |
HB 339 |
Health Security Act (Gonzalez)
HBIC/HJC/HAFC |
| + |
SB 281 |
Health Security Act (Cisneros)
SPAC/SJC-CS/SFC |
| + |
HB 130
| Medicaid & child health insurance reporting (Stewart)
Hpassed/SPAC/SFC/Scal |
| + |
HB 544
| Health coverage accountability & transparency (Picraux)
Hpassed/SPAC/SFC 3/18 |
| + |
HB 222
| Continue children's Medicaid enrollment (Picraux)
HHGAC/HAFC |
| + |
SB 2 |
Full funding of Medicaid in General Appropriations bill |
| + |
SB 278
| Electronic Medical Records Act (Wirth)
Spassed/Hpassed |
| + |
HB 378
| Patient Information Privacy Act (Barela)
HHGAC/HJC-tabled |
| × |
HJR 10
| Right to decide on health care, CA (Gardner)
HVEC/HJC |
| × |
SJR 1
| Ban health coverage mandates, CA (Sharer)
SRC/SJC |
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| Social Policy
fact sheets Death Penalty
Domestic Partners
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| + |
HB 285 |
Abolish Death Penalty (Chasey)
Hpassed/Spassed/Signed
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| + |
HB 21 |
Domestic Partner Rights & Responsibilities (Stewart)
HCPAC/HJC |
| + |
SB 12
| Domestic Partner Rights & Responsibilities (McSorley)
SPAC-a/SJC w/o rec/Sfailed
Senate counterpart to HB 21 |
| × |
HB 118
| Marriage defined (Espinoza)
HCPAC/HJC |
| × |
SB 162
| Marriage defined (Sharer)
SPAC/SJC |
| × |
HJR 2 |
Marriage defined, CA (Vaughn)
HCPAC/HVEC |
| × |
SJR 6 |
Marriage defined, CA (Sharer)
SRC/SJC |
| + |
HB 256 |
Freedom of Choice Act (Stewart)
HCPAC/HJC |
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| Natural Resources
fact sheet
Letter on TIDDs
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| + |
HB 520 |
Consolidated Environmental Review Act (Chasey)
HENRC/HAFC |
| + |
HB 17 |
Aquifer Mapping (Stewart)
HAGC/HAFC |
| + |
HB 19 |
State Engineer Aquifer Jurisdiction (Stewart)
Hpassed/SCONC/SJC/Scal 3/18 |
| + |
HB 762 |
State Engineer Aquifer Authority (Stewart)
HAGC/HENRC
Deals with problems identified in the original HB 19 |
| + |
HB 121 |
ISC Water Planning (Nuñez)
HAGC/HAFC |
| + |
HJM 1 |
NMSU Water Conservation Methods Study (Bandy)
Hpassed/Spassed |
| + |
HJM 3 |
Water Cabinet Environmental Flow Assessment (Stewart)
H-passed/SRC/SCONC/Scal |
| + |
HJM 11 |
Study Public Drinking Water Buffer Zones (Rodefer)
HAGC |
| + |
HB 167
| Alternative Energy for Schools Grant Act (TA Garcia)
HENRC/HAFC |
| + |
SB 235 |
Resource & energy efficient public buildings (P Campos)
SCONC/SFC |
| + |
SB 318
| Development training funds for green jobs (E Griego)
Spassed/Hpassed |
| + |
HB 392
| Greenfield tax increment districts procedures (Barela)
HBIC/HTRC/HAFC |
| + |
HB 451
| Tax increment development district oversight (Lundstrom)
Hpassed/SCORC/SFC |
| + |
SB 483
| Tax increment development district moratorium (McSorley)
SCORC/SFC |
| + |
SB 509
| Tax increment development district formation (McSorley)
SCORC/SFC |
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SB 576
| Tax increment defined (Fischmann)
SFC w/o rec/SCORC |
| × |
HB 470
| Westland tax increment project bonds (Sandoval)
HBIC/HTRC/HCal 3/18
SunCal bonds |
| × |
SB 249
| Tax increment development projects (Lopez)
Spassed/HBIC/HTRC
Senate counterpart of HB 470. |
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| Drug Policy
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| + |
HB 441 |
Substance Abuse & Crime Prevention Act (Maestas)
HCPAC-a/HJC |
| + |
SB 8 |
Drug Court Expansion & Creation (McSorley)
SJC/SFC |
| + |
HM 9 |
Opioid addiction treatment barriers & plan (Stewart)
Signed |
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| Other Legislation of Interest
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| + |
HB 64 |
Restoring Income Tax Progressivity (MP Garcia)
HBIC/HTRC |
| + |
HB 877 |
Restore Income Tax Progressivity (MP Garcia)
HCPAC/HTRC
This version has an additional tax bracket at the top of the scale and phases the changes
in by 2012 instead of 2014 as in HB 64 |
| + |
SB 508 |
Return income tax to pre-2004 rates (Lopez)
SCORC/SFC
Senate counterpart to HB 64 |
| × |
SB 247 |
Election agent registration requirements (Ryan)
SRC-tabled/SJC
Would require all 501(c)(4) organizations, including the League of Women Voters,
to register and report as PACs under the Campaign Reporting Act |
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If you know the number or sponsor of a bill, you can most easily find it using the
bill finder. This page also allows you to search by key word,
subject, or status. The subject index is updated only weekly, but it provides a well-organized index to the bills
introduced to date.
Alternatively, the locator provides a list
of all bills introduced to date. The titles are usually sufficiently descriptive to determine whether the bill
is of interest. Locator reports provide other
ways to search: by date of introduction or date of legislative action, or by current location, referrals, actions, etc.
The page for each bill lists the referrals and actions to date on the bill (use the link to the
Key to Abbreviations
provided on each page, also available on the left-hand side of most pages) as well as PDF files of the bill as filed,
all amendments, and if appropriate the Financial Impact Report, which often contains a useful summary of the bill in
addition to the financial analysis.
Contact information, committee assignments and other information
including a link to sponsored legislation can be found through the
members' page.
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BECOME A LEAGUE LOBBYIST
At the state level the League lobbies primarily on the basis of its
state positions, which reflect the interests
of the New Mexico Leagues, supplemented occasionally by national
positions. We can not advocate at the state level
on the basis of local League positions that have not been adopted by LWVNM.
If you wish to advocate in the name of the League
of Women Voters of New Mexico, you must register with
the Secretary of State's office.
Registration is free, as the League does not pay its members to lobby,
but the registrant must file an authorization
form signed by the president of the LWVNM together with his or her
application in order to become a League lobbyist.
The required forms can be downloaded from the Secretary of State's
web site. You will need the
lobbyist registration form and the lobbyist authorization form.
An individual representing only himself or herself when speaking with a legislator or other state official or
employee is not a lobbyist under the terms of the law and does not need to register. Individuals can be very
effective without representing a group. Indeed, the most effective citizen lobbyist is the one who
engages with his own state Senator and Representative.
League members who visit their legislators on League Day (February 3 in 2009) should speak
only as individuals unless they are registered as League lobbyists.
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