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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.
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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.”