{"id":27275,"date":"2011-03-16T01:12:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T07:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=27275"},"modified":"2011-03-16T01:12:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T07:12:56","slug":"senate-oks-budget-film-incentives-other-financial-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/senate-oks-budget-film-incentives-other-financial-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate OKs budget, film incentives, other financial bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25658\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25658\" title=\"Roundhouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Roundhouse.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roundhouse in Santa Fe (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During a late-night session that stretched into the early hours of this morning, the Senate approved the budget and other financial bills.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate approved the budget \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=2&amp;year=11\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 2 and related bills<\/a> \u2013 on a vote of 27-14. The Senate amended the bill, so it now heads back to the House for concurrence. If one chamber doesn\u2019t agree to the changes made by the other, a conference committee will be formed.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate also approved the film incentive bill \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=607&amp;year=11\" target=\"_blank\">House Bills 607 and 622<\/a> \u2013 which now caps annual payouts from the program at $50 million. The House previously approved a cap of $45 million, so this bill also heads back to the House for concurrence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=628&amp;year=11\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 628<\/a>, which would increase employee payments into retirement plans, passed on a vote of 30-10. It heads back to the Senate for concurrence as well.<\/p>\n<p>Last, the Senate approved the capital outlay bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=S&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=218&amp;year=11\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 218<\/a>, on a vote of 40-1. It now heads to the House for first-time consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a late-night session that stretched into the early hours of this morning, the Senate approved the budget and other financial bills.<\/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":[118,107],"class_list":["post-27275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27275","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=27275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}