Paid family and medical leave proposal returning to NM Legislature
Measure would allow workers to take leave and keep their jobs
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Measure would allow workers to take leave and keep their jobs
Advocates are optimistic the New Mexico Legislature will change a law during the upcoming legislative session to allow nurses to administer methadone, a barrier they say is making it harder to help those with opioid addictions, especially in rural areas.
A panel of lawmakers that weighs New Mexico’s court system between legislative sessions chose not to endorse a proposal to weaken the state’s sunshine law in order to protect judges from violence. But the lawmaker who objected to the bill suggested that work could still be done to convince transparency advocates that it would be a good change.
New Mexico voters overwhelmingly changed state law to increase funding for their public schools by hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
A week before Congress approved spending $2.5 billion to fully compensate victims of botched prescribed burns that grew into New Mexico’s biggest-ever wildfire, the agency in charge of the paying