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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State legislators gave a warm welcome Monday to a bill that would...

   By Morgan Lee, Associated Press Legislators have advanced a proposal to legalize recreational cannabis across New Mexico and lift the states tight restrictions on production for its medical cannabis program. After more than six hours of testimony and deliberations, a legislative committee on health issues on Monday endorsed one bill backed by Democrats and sidelined a second, in efforts to set up a taxed and regulated marketplace for broad cannabis sales. The two-day hearing pushed to the...

SANTA FE -- With U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland poised to take the reins of a key federal agency, a bill that would overhaul the process for picking her potential successor passed…

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... It’s no secret New Mexico’s health care system faces significant challenges, just coming up for air after the flood of COVID-19 patients stressed intensive care units and threatened to overwhelm hospital staff. That was true pre-COVID-19, and it is true now. An Albuquerque Journal report in 2019 ...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Independent voters don’t have a voice in New Mexico’s primary elections, and lawyers are financing judicial campaigns. Two good-government bills addressing these election shortcomings have been introduced in the Legislature, and it’s time to pass them both and make them law. House Bill 79, spo...

Opponents of a gun control bill that would expand a controversial new law in New Mexico argue the measure would give police too much power — enough to seize their firearms even if they have committed no crime.  About 15 people testified Thursday against House Bill 193, which would amend New Mexico’s Extreme Risk Firearm […]

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – The chairman of a Senate committee said Tuesday that a bill that would change the procedures for filling congressional vacancies in New Mexico will be voted on, a day after a Democratic sponsor of the bill expressed concern about it being intentionally delayed. Interest in how U.S. House vacancies are filled has surged after U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., was nominated by President Joe Biden as interior secretary. Haaland is awaiting a U.S. Sen...

Tuesday’s online hearing ignited familiar arguments, but in a new format. Rather than gun owners rallying outside and carrying their firearms into the Roundhouse, the debate played out over three hours on the Zoom webconferencing program, with people raising their digital hands and taking turns speaking for 1 minute each. Lawmakers are doing much of this year’s work online, as the Capitol is closed to the public amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Opponents of the firearms bills — who made up a m...

New Mexico Trying To Organize Broadband Efforts - By Cedar Attanasio Associated Press The New Mexico Legislature is considering a bill that would consolidate the efforts of multiple state agencies to expand high-speed internet. The effort comes a year into the pandemic that has pushed education and health care online, eroding residents access to public services proportional to how far they are from an internet connection. "We watched the collapse of our educational system during the COVID, and...

By Robert Nott, Santa Fe New Mexican | February 9, 2021 The State House of Representatives map adopted ahead of 2012 elections. A House committee on Monday unanimously approved a bill that would allow the state to prepare for the major task of redrawing legislative districts based on population data from the 2020 census.  Among other measures, House Bill 211, co-sponsored by Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives, creates a seven-member redistricting commission, l...