{"id":27495,"date":"2011-03-19T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=27495"},"modified":"2011-03-19T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:45:37","slug":"driver%e2%80%99s-license-bill-appears-to-be-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/driver%e2%80%99s-license-bill-appears-to-be-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver\u2019s license bill appears to be dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11833\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11833 \" title=\"Roundhouse2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Roundhouse2010-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Roundhouse2010-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Roundhouse2010.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roundhouse in Santa Fe (Photo by Peter St. Cyr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A controversial bill dealing with driver\u2019s licenses for undocumented immigrants appears to be dead this session, giving Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susana Martinez<\/a> an opening to make good on her threat to use regulations to deal with the issue.<\/p>\n<p>A conference committee failed this morning to find any compromise on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=78&amp;year=11\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 78<\/a>, sponsored by Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HNUNE\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Nu\u00f1ez<\/a>, DTS-Hatch. That means the House is likely to stick with its version, which would repeal a law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p>\n<p>And the Senate is likely to stick with its version that seeks to address concerns about people fraudulently obtaining licenses by tightening requirements while still allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/xgr\/172153283998newsxgr03-17-11.htm\" target=\"_blank\">by KANW radio<\/a> on Wednesday as saying that if the Legislature wouldn\u2019t act, she would use executive powers to \u201ctighten\u201d regulations. Martinez backs the House version of the bill and has promised to veto the Senate version of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial bill dealing with driver\u2019s licenses for undocumented immigrants appears to be dead, giving Gov. Susana Martinez an opening to make good on her threat to use regulations to deal with the issue.<\/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":[107],"class_list":["post-27495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495","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=27495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}