{"id":13802,"date":"2010-02-27T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=13802"},"modified":"2010-02-27T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T03:02:10","slug":"guv-signs-whistleblower-protection-act-other-bills-in-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/guv-signs-whistleblower-protection-act-other-bills-in-las-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv signs Whistleblower Protection Act, other bills in Las Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8142\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8142\" title=\"Richardson-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\">Bill Richardson<\/a> was in Las Cruces today to sign into law the Whistleblower Protection Act, funding for the Las Cruces downtown tax increment development district and colonias, and a spaceport-related bill.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower law \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?chamber=H&amp;legtype=B&amp;legno=%20165&amp;year=10\">House Bill 165<\/a>, sponsored by Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HCERV\">Joseph Cervantes<\/a>, D-Las Cruces \u2013 allows government employees to sue their employers if they\u2019re retaliated against for reporting government corruption, testifying before a public body or refusing to participate in unlawful activity.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson signed three other bills while in Las Cruces:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=S&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=279&amp;year=10\">Senate Bill 279<\/a>, sponsored by President Pro Tem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SJENT\">Tim Jennings<\/a>, D-Roswell, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SPAPE\">Mary Kay Papen<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, which creates an annual fund of $10 million that is designed to ensure that residents of colonias get assistance for infrastructure improvements.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=112&amp;year=10\">House Bill 112<\/a>, sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HLUJT\">Antonio Lujan<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, which gives the City of Las Cruces the authority to issue $8 million in TIDD bonds to redevelop downtown.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=S&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=9&amp;year=10\">Senate Bill 9<\/a>, sponsored by Papen, which would require that paying space travelers sign a waiver agreeing to hold companies harmless before they pay those companies to take them into space from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\">Spaceport America<\/a> in Southern New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson was in Las Cruces today to sign into law the Whistleblower Protection Act, funding for the Las Cruces downtown tax increment development district and colonias, and a spaceport-related bill.<\/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":[109,145,107,141],"class_list":["post-13802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-ethics-reform","tag-las-cruces","tag-roundhouse","tag-spaceport-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802","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=13802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}