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Bike Week, prison PR, somber anniversaries: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY Alabama Montgomery: A state Senate committee has advanced a bill that would let the governor pick the state’s top public health official. The Senate Health Committee voted 8-3 on Wednesday to advance the bill by Sen. Jim McClendon to the Senate floor. McClendon, an optometrist, said the change would make the position more accountable to elected leaders. But two other doctors on the committee argued it is wrong to interject politics into public health ...

Air pollution controls adopted by The State of New Mexico could be made tougher than federal law as a bill advanced in the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday and could next face a vote on the Senate Floor. Sponsored by Sen. Peter Wirth (D-25), Senate Bill 8 was intended to allow the State to adopt air pollution controls as stringent or tougher than federal restrictions through the New Mexico Environment Department and the Environmental Improvement Board. As the Air Quality Control and Hazardous Waste acts currently read, New Mexico is not capable of implementing stricter air quality controls...

   By Morgan Lee, Associated Press Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed economic relief legislation that provides $600 rebates to low-income workers and a tax holiday for restaurants that have been hobbled by aggressive pandemic health restrictions. Lujan Grisham on Wednesday signed two bills that are part of an ambitious economic recovery package. New Mexico state finances and trust funds are rebounding amid a surge in oil production and prices, along with a boost from 2020 federal relief to state and local government, businesses, the unemployed, school districts and tribal governments....

A bipartisan bill intended to increase oversight of oil and gas pipelines by shifting authority to New Mexico’s main extraction compliance agency was introduced in New Mexico’s Senate Rules Committee Wednesday, but a vote was delayed, and the bill was expected to be brought forth again in next year’s session. Senate Bill 409 would transfer authority over pipelines, pipeline safety and evacuation of underground facilities from the Public Regulation Commission (PRC) through its Pipeline Safety Division to the Oil Conservation Division (OCD) within the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natur...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's Democratic governor has signed economic relief...