: Category: Politics: Enter at your own risk; 22 January 2024

ðŸš¨Call to Action!ðŸš¨

The 2024 Legislative Session lasts only 30 days so it's going to fly by fast!

Remember, your representatives work for YOU and are elected to represent YOU.

Let your representatives know where you stand by speaking up during committee hearings, either in person or via Zoom. Your voice holds a lot of weight.

This session, we urge you to reach out to your legislators, participate in committee meetings, and share these Calls to Actions with as many people as possible.

We've listed the upcoming hearings that need your voice.

Tuesday, January 23, 2024:

HOUSE CONSUMER & PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

1:30 PM - Room 317

HB 27 - Seeks to expand the State Red Flag Gun Confiscation Law. It empowers law enforcement officers and unspecified licensed healthcare professionals to petition for extreme risk protective orders. Immediate firearm surrender is required upon service of these orders

HB 114 - Â A bill that would force firearm retailers and manufacturers out of New Mexico by making it easy to sue them.

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Via Better Together New Mexico:

Gun Control Legislation
HB 127 CTA Under 21 Gun and Ammo Ban
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SB 5 Polling Place Gun Ban
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HB 114 Gun Store Liability Bill
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HB 129 14-Day Firearm Waiting Period
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HB 27 Red Flag Law Changes
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SB 90 Gun and Ammo Tax
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HB 137Â GAS-OPERATED SEMIAUTO FIREARMS EXCLUSION ACT
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Energy Legislation
HB 133 Oil & Gas Act Changes
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HB 41 CLEAN TRANSPORTATION FUEL STANDARDS
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Environmental Legislation
2024 HJR 4 Environment Rights Constitutional Amendment
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Economic Legislation
Paid Family Medical Leave Act.
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HB125 PUBLIC BANKING ACT
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SB 110 PUBLIC BANKING ACT
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Crime Legislation
Denial of Bail
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GOP Bills to Watch

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HB 111 - Funding for the completion of New Mexico's border wall.

HB 121 - Requiring assessments and investigation into CYFD failures to provide plan of care.

HB 53 - Smokey Bear License & Plate

HB - 82 - Appropriation for the enhancement, expansion & continuing implementation of the New Mexico historic women marker program.

HB 110 - Instills penalties for abortion providers who kill a fetus with a detectable heartbeat. Requires they inform the mother of the fetus' heartbeat.

HB 124 - Creating the interim Administrative rule oversight committee; requiring legislative review of executive agency proposed rules;

HB 167 - Requiring medical care for all infants who are born alive

HM 3 - Requesting the secretary of health to convene a task force to study the prevalence, effects and lifetime fiscal impacts of prenatal substance exposure and adverse neonatal outcomes; requesting that the final results of the study be reported to the legislature

HR 1 - Articles of impeachment against Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham

SB 83 - Requiring CYFD to conduct assessments and provide services upon failure to comply with a plan of care.

SB 117 - Increasing the amount of the special needs adopted child tax credit

SB 112 - Allowing pregnant women in their third trimester to be issued temporary significant mobility limitation parking placards

Anti-2A Bills

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HB 27 - Seeks to expand the State Red Flag Gun Confiscation Law. It empowers law enforcement officers and unspecified licensed healthcare professionals to petition for extreme risk protective orders. Immediate firearm surrender is required upon service of these orders

HB 129 - Adds a 14-day waiting period to a firearm purchase.

HB 127 - Raises the minimum age to purchase or possess a firearm to 21 years old.

HB 114 - Â A bill that would force firearm retailers and manufacturers out of New Mexico by making it easy to sue them

SB 5 - Makes 100 feet of all polling places, and 50 feet within a voting drobox gun-free zones under penalty.

SB 69 - Requires a 14-day waiting period for firearm purchases.

SB 90 - Imposing an additional tax on firearms and ammunition.

SM2 -Requesting the environmental improvement board to repeal the electric vehicle mandate

SM3 - A memorial to support Israel and condemn Hamas

Pro-2A Bills

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HB 81 - (bipartisan) Tax credit for those who purchase a secure gun storage box equal to the amount of the gun storage.

HB 79 - Provides a partial gross receipts tax reduction for the sale of firearms and ammunition.

HB 78 - Constitutional carry bill.

HB 58 - Eliminate the background check requirement for firearm purchases.

Crime Bills

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HJR 3 - Remove the requirements that only courts of record may deny bail and that only prosecuting authorities may request a hearing to determine whether bail is denied, to allow courts to deny bail for all types of criminal offenses

HB 44 - Establishing a pre-trial presumption that a defendant has proven dangerous by clear and convincing evidence and no release conditions will protect the safety of the community.

HB 46 - Penalty for a felon in possession of a firearm is five years imprisonment.

HB 47 - Creating a crime of unlawfully carrying a firearm while trafficking controlled substances.

HB 56 - Clarifying that trespassing includes persons who knowingly enter without prior permission or remain on the lands of another knowing that the owner or lawful occupant did not provide permission; increasing the penalty for trespass in certain circumstances.

HB 57 - Chemical castration for sex offenders.

HB 60 - Makes necrophilia a crime.

HB 61 - Increasing the penalty for aggravated battery upon a peace officer.

HB 63 - Requiring the department of health to develop, maintain and oversee a cannabis school use prevention resource program;

HB 64 - Clarifying cannabis packaging requirements pertaining to children's safety.

HB 65 - Removing limitations on what may constitute reasonable suspicion of a crime involving cannabis

HB 69 - Creating the crime of organized residential theft; prescribing penalties.

HB 77 - Reinstate the death penalty

HB 80 - Relating to CYFD. Creating the crimes of assault and aggravated assault against a public service worker and battery and aggravated battery against a public service worker

HB 96 - Increasing the penalty for resisting, evading or obstructing an officer to a fourth degree felony.

HB 106 - Adding the exposure to the use of fentanyl as evidence of abuse of a child

HB 152 - Prohibiting driving with controlled substances or

Metabolites in the blood

HB 155 - Providing three strikes for violent felons for the purposes of life imprisonment; eliminating the possibility of parole. Providing that certain convictions incurred by a defendant before the age of eighteen shall constitute violent felonies

SB 66 - Increasing the penalty of making a shooting threat to a fourth degree felony

SB 73 - Reinstating the death penalty for murdering a peace officer

SJR 11 - Allow conditions for denial of bail and for pretrial detention. Remove the requirement that bail denial be made only by a court of record and remove the limitation of bail denial to defendants charged with a felony

SB 107 - Increasing the amount of the rural job tax credit; making the credit refundable and removing transferability

SB 122 - Establishing a rebuttable presumption that no release conditions will reasonably protect the safety of any other person or the community if a defendant is likely to pose a threat to the safety of others if released pending trial

Bad Democrat Bills to Watch

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HB 41 - Clean Transportation Fuels Standard would raise gas prices by .50 a gallon

SJR 8 - Government power grab in the name of environmental rights.

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ðŸš¨Call to Action!ðŸš¨

Sign These Petitions

GOP Bills to Watch

Anti-2A Bills

Pro-2A Bills

Crime Bills

Bad Democrat Bills to Watch

In the News:

Attend the Meetings

Bill Schedule

Contact the committees and make your voices heard.

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