Food, boosting businesses top area legislators’ plans Written by Geoffrey Plant on January 19, 2021
As the 60-day legislative session begins today in Santa Fe, the three legislators who represent most of Grant County have fine-tuned their priorities lists and identified some of the bills and issues they plan to support. The Daily Press visited with the two Republican representatives and the Democratic senator who will be in Santa Fe or joining portions of the session remotely due to the pandemic.
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Newly elected Democratic Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill ran on a platform that emphasized education, health care and repeal of the state’s pre-Roe v. Wade law criminalizing any abortion that isn’t ※a justified medical termination.”
Comnmentary: New Mexico leaders are applauding the Joint Resolution pre-filed Monday, January 4, by Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Senator Bill Soules, and Representative Joanne Ferrary to amend the New Mexico Constitution in order to add enforceable environmental rights. Senator Mimi Stewart, Senator Harold Pope, Jr, Representative Tara Luján and Representative Andrea Romero are signing on as co-sponsors in support. The Joint Resolution proposing the amendment was pre-filed by the sponsors on the first day legislators could pre-file their legislative proposals for the 2021 legislative session.
The Joint Resolution proposes amending the state constitution’s Bill of Rights to recognize and protect the rights of all of the people of New Mexico “to a clean and healthy environment, including pure water, clean air, healthy ecosystems, and a stable climate, and to the preservation of the natural, cultural, scenic and healthful qualities of the environment”; to ensure
Most businesses awarded money through a $100 million state CARES small business continuity grant program already have the money in hand, according to Marquita Russel. Russel is chief executive officer of the New Mexico Finance Authority, which is administering the grant program established by the New Mexico Legislature during a November 2020 special session. The […]
LAS CRUCES All New Mexicans, both those now residing here and those who are yet to come, would have a constitutional right to clean air, water and land under legislation being co-sponsored by Sen. Bill Soules and Rep. Joanne Ferrary, both D-Las Cruces, and Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque.
Or, to be precise, they would have a more well-defined constitutional right to those things. The New Mexico Constitution was previously amended in 1972 in an attempt to ensure the right to clean water, air, soils and environments. Sponsors of this year’s proposed “Green Amendment” say that effort failed because it left compliance in the hands of the Legislature.
LAS CRUCES - All New Mexicans, both those now residing here and those who are yet to come, would have a constitutional right to clean air, water and land under legislation being cosponsored by Sen. Bill Soules and Rep. Joanne Ferrary, both D-Las Cruces and Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque.
Or, to be precise, they would have a more well-defined constitutional right to those things. The New Mexico Constitution was previously amended in 1972 in an attempt to ensure the right to clean water, air, soils and environments. Sponsors of this year’s proposed “Green Amendment” say that effort failed because it left compliance in the hands of the Legislature.