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The state legislature on Wednesday sent an annual spending plan to the Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that would increase annual general fund spending by 14% to underwrite tuition-free college, bolster rural rural health care networks and expand no-pay daycare and prekindergarten.
The Roundhouse in Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican While state lawmakers tackle a number of key issues this session that grab the public’s attention— crime, public education, rebate checks — there are any number of lower-profile ones that keep popping up and down like inflatable punching bags. Like medical malpractice, to name one. A moving […]
Legislative Finance Committee Director David Abbey, right, raises his hand to make a point during a Wednesday meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, while the committee's chief of staff Adrian
Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main A bill to overhaul New Mexico’s 88-year-old Oil and Gas Act passed out of its first committee hearing this week on a straight party vote, while a bill that would have promoted hydrogen production from natural gas disappeared from the Legislature’s calendar. The latest version of the Advanced Technology Energy Act, HB12, […]