{"id":12740,"date":"2010-02-08T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2010-02-08T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T04:54:28","slug":"house-oks-interim-committee-webcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/house-oks-interim-committee-webcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"House OKs interim committee webcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12741\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12741 \" title=\"Steinborn and Arnold-Jones\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Steinborn-and-Arnold-Jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Reps. Jeff Steinborn, Right, and Janice Arnold-Jones talking during today\u2019s debate on the webcasting memorial. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The House easily passed a memorial today that, if also approved by the Senate, will direct legislative staff to begin webcasting interim committee meetings held around the state.<\/p>\n<p>The debate on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?chamber=H&amp;legtype=JM&amp;legno=%20%2015&amp;year=10\">House Joint Memorial 15<\/a>, sponsored by Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HSTEI\">Jeff Steinborn<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, was mostly cordial. The memorial passed 65-2 with only Democratic Reps. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HALCO\">Eliseo Lee Alcon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HBARR\">Andrew Barreras<\/a> voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important, Mr. Speaker, because of course during the interim we develop our budgets, we develop policy,\u201d Steinborn said during debate on the memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Two amendments were added to Steinborn\u2019s resolution before it was approved. The first, from Republican Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HARNO\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a>, changed the wording of the resolution so that it would direct, rather than request, that Legislative Council Service begin webcasting. The second, from Majority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HMART\">Ken Martinez<\/a>, stripped wording in the bill that would have provided for archiving of video and audio taken during interim committee meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez has consistently argued against archiving. New Mexico isn\u2019t a state whose courts considers legislative intent in addition to the actual wording of legislation, so he has said it\u2019s important to not create permanent records other than the actual legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Steinborn accepted the amendment so the memorial would be consistent with House rules that don\u2019t allow archiving of webcasting from the floor and regular committee meetings.<\/p>\n<p>His memorial allows for the reality that webcasting won\u2019t be possible in some rural areas where the necessary technology isn\u2019t available. Some $35,000 has been included in the budget bill that already passed the House to purchase the equipment for webcasting.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold-Jones, who Steinborn called the pioneer of webcasting in the Legislature, thanked him for taking it to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just so pleased that you have taken this forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The memorial now heads to the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House easily passed a memorial today that, if also approved by the Senate, will direct legislative staff to begin webcasting interim committee meetings held around the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[111,107],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-open-government","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}