The 30-day 2024 Legislative Session is flying by fast!
We've made this guide to help you stay up-to-date and get involved this year.
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 below.
Thursday - January 25, 2024
🟥HB 127 - Raises the minimum age to purchase or possess a firearm to 21 years old.
🟥HB 137 - Semiautomatic rifle ban.
🟥HB 129 - Adds a 14-day waiting period to a firearm purchase.
HOUSE CONSUMER & PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 1:30 PM - Room 317
To send an email, copy the contact info for this committee below:
To speak during the live Zoom hearing:
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Attend the Meetings
Sign these Petitions
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
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 - 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 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.
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.- 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
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.- Â 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.
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.
GOP Pro 2A Bills
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
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
Other Bad Democrat Bills To Watch
HB 133 - Amend the Oil and Gas Act and institute new gas-killing regulations.
HB 41 - Clean Transportation Fuels Standard would raise gas prices by .50 a gallon.
HB 182 - Anti-first amendment. Creates a new broad definition of ‘materially deceptive media" and creates a crime for distributing it.
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 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.
NM Legislators in the media:
• https://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/opinion-targeting-law-abiding-gun-owners-doesnt-address-crime/article_0d62b856-b59a-11ee-bbaa-07391abda306.html
• https://www.abqjournal.com/news/republicans-push-to-limit-emergency-powers-nm-governors-hold/article_4705e7ca-ba38-11ee-84cf-1f7e61ce648a.html
• https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/cyfd-leaders-face-tough-questions-as-lawmakers-seek-solutions/
• https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/the-voters-are-my-bosses-how-4-n-m-lawmakers-look-at-their-job/article_4fbe00e8-b491-11ee-97d8-570a9eed7c82.html
• https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/lawmaker-calls-cyfd-an-unfixable-agency/article_93448378-b617-11ee-b936-cbb7f69752d9.html
• https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-republicans-turn-politics-version-043400836.html
• https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/legislature/senate-republicans-fire-back-at-oil-and-gas-bill/article_21b6ff4c-b6fd-11ee-8f25-537c981301a0.html
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-house-republicans-propose-legislation-for-scholarship-tax-credits/ar-AA1mQqht
• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2804738/new-mexico-gop-democratic-gov-impeachment/
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/republican-legislator-files-bills-aimed-at-curbing-crime-in-new-mexico/ar-AA1mEVaY
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hb-44-looks-to-adopt-rebuttable-presumption-in-nm/ar-AA1mFBgb
• New Mexico House Republicans push to limit governor's emergency powers (krqe.com)
• 2 New Mexico state Republicans file impeachment articles against Dem governor over gun control | Fox News
• State Republicans file impeachment articles against Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham - KOB.com
• New Mexico Senate Republicans announce 2024 priorities (msn.com)
• Governor, undeterred by disruptions, lays out big agenda | Legislature | New Mexico Legislative Session | santafenewmexican.com
• Lawmakers, business leaders prioritize CTE programming in Legislature | Business | abqjournal.com
• OPINION: If you have paid any attention to the news, you know CYFD's troubles | Opinion | abqjournal.com
• WARNING: Lawmaker's bill mandates automatic death penalty for child sex crimes following Epstein files release (foxnews.com)
• NM governor unveils bills that ban assault weapons, raise age to possess a gun | News | abqjournal.com
• Republican legislator files bills aimed at curbing crime in New Mexico (msn.com)
• Republicans want to repeal New Mexico's electric vehicle requirement
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