GOP Bills to Watch

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HB 51 - Gross receipts tax cut.

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 70 - Appropriation to provide school-based mental health counselors in public middle and high schools.

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 - Creates a bipartisan committee of legislators from both the House and Senate to ensure sufficient checks and balances are applied to administrative rules. This bipartisan committee will prevent current and future governors and their unelected appointees from abusing the administrative rule process to seize law and mandate-making ability without the approval of the elected legislature.

HB 150 - Proposes a renewable energy production tax equivalent to the oil and gas severance tax.

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

HB 205 - The Women's Bill of Rights Act protects women-only facilities and sports.

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.

HM 11 - Requesting PED create a work group to study ways to help schools with absent children.

HJR 8 - Limit the governor's emergency powers to 90 days unless she gets a 3/5 approval vote from the legislature.

HR 1 - Articles of impeachment against Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.

SB 26 - (bipartisan) Makes an appropriation to the board of regents of NMSU for the NM Dept of Agriculture's existing livestock Mexican wolf compensation program.

SB 27 - Appropriation to the NM Department of Agriculture to fund and provide rootstock or vines for new vineyards in NM.

SB 37 - (bipartisan) Authorizing the NM livestock board to conduct meat inspections to ensure the safety and quality of meat for human consumption.

SB 51 - Authorizing the creation of a state meat inspection program to ensure the safety and quality of meat for human consumption.

SB 52 - Provide emergency funding to rural and frontier hospitals with fewer than thirty-five beds.

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

SB 93 - Appropriation for research and development of chile harvesting solutions and marketing of chile grown in NM.

SB 105 - Reducing the rates of several types of taxes and repealing other taxes.

SB 107 - A tax credit for each qualifying rural job the employer creates.

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.

SB 125 - Make tax exemption on military retirement income permanent.

SB 154 - Amending the rights of sexual assault survivors. Providing more resources and avenues for police to investigate these crimes.

SM2 -Repeal the EIB's electric vehicle mandate.

SM3 - A memorial to support Israel and condemn Hamas.

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

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 137 - Semiautomatic rifle ban.

HB 144 - Creates the bureaucratic "Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Intervention."

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.

SJR 12 - Amends the NM constitution to allow municipalities and counties to regulate firearms in a manner that is more restrictive than state law.

SB 204 - Would ban carrying a firearm at a park or playground.

GOP 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.

GOP 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 102 - Adding certain crimes to the definition of "Racketeering"; defining "Criminal gang"; creating crimes; prescribing penalties.

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.

Other Bad Democrat Bills to Watch

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HB 6 - Would codify a 12-week paid family and medical leave program. This act forces employees and employers to pay out of pocket into a fund managed by the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions. Employees will be required to contribute an additional .5% of their wages and employers an additional .4% to this fund.

HB 11- Would codify a six-week paid family medical leave program. Employees will be required to contribute an additional .5% of their wages to this fund.

HB 133 - Amend the Oil and Gas Act and institute new gas-killing regulations that target small, local oil and gas companies.

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

HB 182 - Anti-first amendment. Creates a new crime of distributing "materially deceptive media" made with AI.

HM 8 - An anti-Israel memorial.

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

SB 2 - Would further harm the oil and gas industry by increasing the royalty rates for oil and gas tracts of land through the New Mexico State Land Office.

SB 3 - Would codify a 12-week paid family medical leave. Employees will be required to contribute an additional .5% of their wages and employers an additional .4% to this fund.

SB 136 - Appropriates 1 million taxpayer dollars for the Governor, Lt. Governor, and her cabinet to purchase new electric vehicles to use throughout their term of office.

SB 147 - Adds an additional tax to liquor purchases making future purchases more expensive.

SB 158 - Creates a "constitutional revision commission" of 15 people appointed by the governor and others to study and recommend changes to the NM constitution.

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