{"id":4426,"date":"2009-04-01T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/richardson-to-sign-ethics-reform-bills\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T02:44:00","slug":"richardson-to-sign-ethics-reform-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/richardson-to-sign-ethics-reform-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson to sign ethics-reform bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SdQn0Wqu0_I\/AAAAAAAALUQ\/dGfkg9XSbHY\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SdQn0Wqu0_I\/AAAAAAAALUQ\/dGfkg9XSbHY\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319920840222888946\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> plans to hold a news conference on Thursday to \u201ctake action on several ethics reform bills,\u201d according to a news release from his office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The release didn\u2019t specify which bills Richardson will sign, and two staffers didn\u2019t respond to an e-mail about the news conference, but sources said Richardson plans to sign bills that will enact campaign contribution limits and require more frequent campaign reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The contribution-limit bill is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=S&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=116&amp;year=09\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 116<\/a>, sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SFELD\" target=\"_blank\">Dede Feldman<\/a>, D-Albuquerque. It will limit contributions to non-statewide candidates for office &#8212; including legislative candidates &#8212; to $2,300 per election from any entity except a political committee, which could give a maximum of $5,000 to non-statewide candidates. It will limit contributions to statewide candidates for office, political action committees and political parties to $5,000 per election from individuals and groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are two elections &#8212; a primary and a general &#8212; in each election cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The other bill is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=S&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=128&amp;year=09\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 128<\/a>, sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SWIRT\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Wirth<\/a>, D-Santa Fe. It will require that candidates file reports of expenditures and contributions twice a year in off-election years. Currently, the law requires that annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The news conference will be held at 11 a.m. in the Governor\u2019s Cabinet Room on the fourth floor of the Roundhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson plans to hold a news conference on Thursday to \u201ctake action on several ethics reform bills,\u201d according to a news release from his office. The release didn\u2019t specify which bills Richardson will sign, and two staffers didn\u2019t respond to an e-mail about the news conference, but sources said Richardson plans to sign [&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-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","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=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}