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We’ve got the better part of a year to build a bigger team of sunshine champs and then we’re going to bring our A game to the 60-day session in 2013. In the meantime, public officials who say they support transparency should lead by example and not wait for new laws to force them to do the right thing. Continue Reading
Gov. Susana Martinez didn’t succeed on many of the issues she had endorsed, but she emerged from the 30-day legislative session with the tax breaks she most cared about and a budget she can work with. Continue Reading
A bill aimed at fixing problems with the state’s campaign-disclosure law was amended slightly by a House committee on Tuesday and sent to the floor for a vote, but it’s been so changed from its original version that it has lost one of its top supporters. Continue Reading
Efforts to streamline and improve the embattled Public Regulation Commission cleared a major hurdle this morning as the Senate Rules Committee approved two proposed constitutional amendments that would relieve the commission of insurance regulation duties and ask the Legislature to establish qualifications for commissioners. Continue Reading
While one proposal to reform the Public Regulation Commission passed the Senate on Saturday, three others are still in the pipeline, which appears to be clogged. Continue Reading
The Senate on Monday approved a proposal to require combined reporting. The bill, which would require many out-of-state corporations to pay taxes on in-state earnings, passed with the support of the majority Democrats, but not from Republicans. Read the transcript of our live blog for more details. Continue Reading
The Senate unanimously passed legislation that attempts to fix problems with the state’s campaign-disclosure law on Sunday, sending it to the House for consideration. Continue Reading
UPDATED: The Senate passed a controversial bill today that attempts to fix problems with the state’s campaign-disclosure law, sending it to the House for consideration. Click on the headline to read about it in our liveblog archive. Continue Reading
A proposal to move the Corporations Division of the Public Regulation Commission to the Secretary of State’s office passed the Senate Rules Committee today by a unanimous vote. Continue Reading
A bill aimed at ensuring campaign-finance transparency has been so changed by Senate committees that it has lost much of the support that propelled it out of an interim committee by a unanimous vote. Continue Reading
Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez isn’t the only one who thinks elements of PRC reform deserve more consideration than can be undertaken in a 30-day session. Continue Reading
VIDEO: Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, who controls the Senate floor calendar, told NMPolitics.net he has concerns about the proposals. He said lawmakers need to “look at this more carefully” than a 30-day session allows. Continue Reading
VIDEO: The budget was moving through the House at about the usual speed until Monday, when Republicans balked at what had been a tentative deal. Democrats said they were shocked and disappointed that their deal fell through; Republicans were forced to awkwardly backtrack. So what was behind all the sturm und drang? Continue Reading
UPDATED: On a 5-4, party-line vote, the House Labor and Human Resources Committee rejected Rep. Andy Nuñez’s bill that would repeal a law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses this afternoon, passing instead a committee substitute that would amend the law in an attempt to address its flaws. Click on the headline to read NMPolitics.net’s liveblog archive of the hearing. Continue Reading
Gov. Susana Martinez on Wednesday endorsed a plan by Rep. David Doyle that would give the construction industry a break on gross receipts taxes. Meanwhile, Sen. Steve Fischmann proposes eliminating the tax on all business services, but his bill includes other proposals to pay for it. Continue Reading