{"id":4310,"date":"2009-03-04T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/rules-committee-oks-contribution-limits\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:17:00","slug":"rules-committee-oks-contribution-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/rules-committee-oks-contribution-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules Committee OKs contribution limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sa8MTFR-aPI\/AAAAAAAALAw\/q4fZ05yGR-g\/s1600-h\/2009Legislature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sa8MTFR-aPI\/AAAAAAAALAw\/q4fZ05yGR-g\/s200\/2009Legislature.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309476007667722482\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/committeedisplay.aspx?CommitteeCode=SRC\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Rules Committee<\/a> gave a do-pass recommendation today to a bill that would enact campaign contribution limits in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On a vote of 7-0, the bill now moves to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/committeedisplay.aspx?CommitteeCode=SJC\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a>, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/20561\/contribution-limits-bill-makes-progress-in-nm-senate\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico Independent<\/a>. It\u2019s a committee substitute drafted after consideration of several contribution-limit bills over the last couple of weeks, and isn\u2019t yet available online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The bill would limit contributions from individuals to $2,300, from political committees to $5,000 and from political parties to $10,000 per calendar year. It would take effect on Jan. 1, 2011 and includes a sunset clause of Jan. 1, 2013, which Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SLOPE\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Lopez<\/a>, D-Albuquerque and the committee\u2019s chairwoman, was quoted by NMI as saying would give the state a chance to review the limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Steve Allen, director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&amp;b=4847593\" target=\"_blank\">Common Cause New Mexico<\/a>, said there could be a different way to review the system, and the sunset clause concerns him. But he noted that this is the first major ethics reform to pass the committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe just are grateful that we have what we consider a major ethics reform bill make its way out of the committee,\u201d NMI quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">A prior version of this posting incorrectly stated that the sunset clause would take effect in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Rules Committee gave a do-pass recommendation today to a bill that would enact campaign contribution limits in New Mexico. On a vote of 7-0, the bill now moves to the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to the New Mexico Independent. It\u2019s a committee substitute drafted after consideration of several contribution-limit bills over the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","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=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}