{"id":524114,"date":"2018-02-14T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T04:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=524114"},"modified":"2018-02-14T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T04:40:12","slug":"is-a-bill-to-ease-impact-of-power-plants-closure-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/02\/is-a-bill-to-ease-impact-of-power-plants-closure-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a bill to ease impact of power plant&#8217;s closure dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56542\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-56542\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kids-at-Roundhouse-771x504.jpg\" alt=\"A statue outside the Roundhouse in Santa Fe.\" width=\"771\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kids-at-Roundhouse-771x504.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kids-at-Roundhouse-336x220.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kids-at-Roundhouse-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kids-at-Roundhouse-1170x764.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kids-at-Roundhouse.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue outside the Roundhouse in Santa Fe.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Rod Montoya, R-Farmington, put a lot of time, energy, negotiating and general hard-headedness into a bill aimed at easing the economic woes of San Juan County, which could be hit hard when Public Service Company of New Mexico eventually closes the coal-burning San Juan Generating Station.<\/p>\n<p>Montoya was able to get <a href=\"https:\/\/nmlegis.gov\/Legislation\/Legislation?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=325&amp;year=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Bill 325<\/a> through the House earlier this week on a bipartisan 44-25 vote. But after the vote Montoya said, &#8220;Time is not on our side.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And he was right.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_368860533\"><span class=\"aQJ\">On Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, when the bill went to the Senate, it was assigned to the Conservation Committee.<\/p>\n<p>But there was one major problem. With only hours left in the session, that committee isn&#8217;t scheduled to meet. That means, barring any unexpected last-minute action, the bill will die there.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>. NMPolitics.net is paying for the rights to publish articles about the 2018 legislative session from the newspaper. Help us cover the cost by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making a donation to NMPolitics.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, when the bill went to the Senate, it was assigned to the Conservation Committee, which isn&#8217;t scheduled to meet before the session ends at noon Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3634,119,107,3314],"class_list":["post-524114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2018-legislative-session","tag-energy-policy","tag-roundhouse","tag-san-juan-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524114","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=524114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}