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Legislative Roundup: 27 Days Left In 2021 Session SFNM Collins confirmed: The Senate on Friday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Tracie Collins as secretary of the state Department of Health by a 38-1 vote, with Sen. Craig Brandt, R-Rio Rancho, casting the lone dissenting vote. Brandt said he sent Collins two separate letters and never received a response. “I do not believe that the lack of response is good policy, a good way to run the department,” he said, adding Collins said during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Rules Committee she had never received the letters. During the...

Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record A state bill that has been opposed by several county boards of commissioners, including Chaves County, has passed the New Mexico House of Representatives and is awaiting consideration of the Senate. House Bill 4, the New Mexico Civil Rights Act, passed 39 to 29 on Tuesday afternoon after about three hours of discussion. Area Republican Reps. Candy Spence Ezzell, District 58; Greg Nibert, District 59; and James Townsend, District 54; voted against it, as did Rep. Phelps Anderson, District 66, who is registered as “Decline to State.” On Feb. 4, the Cha...

By Robert Nott and Daniel J. Chacón, Santa Fe New Mexican | February 3, 2021 The Senate convened Monday for the second time this session. Two weeks into the 2021 legislative session, it looks like no one is home at the state Capitol. The hallways and hearing rooms — which normally would be bustling with activity by this time in a 60-day session — were empty Tuesday, aside from the rare sighting of a staff member or New Mexico State Police officer. Perhaps more surprisingly, Tuesday’s House floor session ran quickly and quietly, with no sign of the partisan rancor of the previous week...

New Mexico State Legislature Convenes Hybrid Floor Sessions Capitol hallways and hearing rooms — which normally would be bustling with activity by this time in a 60-day session — were empty Tuesday, aside from a rare sighting of a staff member or New Mexico State Police officer. by Robert Nott and Daniel J. Chacon, The Santa Fe New Mexican / February 3, 2021 The New Mexico House of Representatives chambers. Shutterstock/Nagel Photography (TNS) — Two weeks into the 2021 New Mexico legislative session,...

By Daniel J. Chacón and Robert Nott, Santa Fe New Mexican | January 29, 2021 A Republican lawmaker in the New Mexico House of Representatives and four others at the Roundhouse have tested positive for the coronavirus. The new cases at the state Capitol come just two weeks into a 60-day legislative session that required everyone but lawmakers to receive weekly nasal COVID-19 tests to be admitted into the building. In an email late Thursday, House Republican spokesman Matthew Garcia-Sierra  wrote that he had been “informed one of our members tested positive, and I am also aware that ther...