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FRI: Governor Signs $7 4B Budget, Health Secretary Says NM Nearing Herd Immunity, + More

   By Morgan Lee, Associated Press New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Friday a $7.4 billion general fund spending plan for the coming fiscal year that boosts state funding for public education, early childhood services and more while using her veto pen to assert sole authority over $1.6 billion in new federal pandemic relief funding. General fund spending will increase by 5% during the fiscal year that starts July 1, with more than one-third of the increase directed toward education. The governor vetoed the Legislature s recommendations for spending more than $1 billion in federal relief on initiatives that avoid future payroll tax increases on businesses, underwrite college tuition for in-state students, backfill lost income at state museums and more.

New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide

New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide Follow Us Question of the Day By CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press - Thursday, April 8, 2021 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico has become the latest state to provide a legal pathway for terminally ill patients to choose when and how they die. On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, named for a New Mexico judge who advocated for medically assisted suicide laws in 2017, and died from cancer the following year. “Dignity in dying - making the clear-eyed choice to prevent suffering at the end of a terminal illness - is a self-evidently humane policy,” said Lujan Grisham, in a long statement crediting Whitefield and other advocates for fighting to secure the ”peace of mind and humanity this legislation provides.”

Governor signs aid in dying bill - InsuranceNewsNet

Governor signs aid in dying bill Santa Fe New Mexican, The (NM) Apr. 8 In a legislative session full of contentious proposals from more progressive lawmakers such as legalizing cannabis and repealing a decades-old abortion ban perhaps none drew as much controversy as one that would give terminally ill patients the right to seek a doctor s aid in dying. On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law House Bill 47, known as the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, which gives certain patients the right to ask a physician to prescribe drugs to end their suffering. The legislation is named after a

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