Call to Action
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Relating to Oil and Gas:
Saturday, Jan 20, 9:00 AM - Room 317
HOUSE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE
HB 41 CLEAN TRANSPORTATION FUEL STANDARDS (ORTEZ/CHANDLER)
HB 48 OIL AND GAS FUTURE ROYALTY RATE (MCQUEEN/TALLMAN)
HB 133 OIL & GAS ACT CHANGES (ORTEZ/MCQUEEN)
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Relating to the Border:
Monday, January 22, 2024 - 8:30 AM - Room 305
HOUSE GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS AND INDIAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
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On Wednesday, Attorney General Raúl Torrez and Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver held a presentation in the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the 2-year long investigation conducted by the AG's office on the 2020 Republican electors. The investigation concluded that the electors did not break any laws.
AG Torrez is pursuing efforts to change New Mexico election law to create a second-degree felony charge for similar actions in the future. Senator Greg Baca slammed the AG for wasting two years and countless New Mexico tax dollars, that remain unaccounted for, on a case that came up with nothing. Senator Baca suggested that the Senate Judiciary would better use their time discussing accountability to New Mexican taxpayers, including how much money is being spent and where it is going, especially with regards to the AG’s office.
NM Senate GOP Rebuke Administration’s Efforts to Destroy New Mexico’s Oil and Gas Industries
Via: NM Senate Republicans
The Senate Finance Committee today heard testimony from the Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department regarding its budgetary and legislative proposals. A lengthy discussion ensued regarding the Department’s proposed legislation (House Bill 133) to amend the Oil and Gas Act and institute new regulations.
Following the hearing, Senator William Sharer (R-Farmington) and Senator Crystal Brantley (R-Elephant Butte) released the following statements:
“These oil and gas-killing regulations continue to stand on thin science and thick rhetoric,” added Senator Brantley. “Not even the federal government has instituted some of these measures and it is particularly troubling that the department refused to provide any factual numbers on how these unnecessary changes will impact New Mexico’s revenue stream. As a legislator and member of the Senate Finance Committee, I have a responsibility for the state’s budget, and I urge my colleagues to reject this and any other bill that jeopardizes our financial viability.”
“New Mexico is, quite literally, powered by our energy industry,” said Senator Sharer. “The Governor and her administration claim to ‘appreciate’ the impact of the industry on our state, but too often, they fail to recognize its impact beyond funding our state coffers. Clean, affordable, and reliable energy heats our homes, it gets us to work, and it is in every fiber of our modern society. Thanks to major investments by the industry, we are now producing the cleanest energy in the cleanest way possible. We should embrace that instead of trying to cut off the hand that feeds us.”
NM HOUSE REPUBLICANS FILE LEGISLATION TO LIMIT THE GOVERNOR’S EXECUTIVE POWERS
Via: NM House Republicans
SANTA FE, NM—Today, New Mexico House Republicans filed legislation to limit the Governor’s power to declare a state of emergency, a push to reign in executive overreach.
Recent decisions by Governor Michelle Lujan-Grisham to declare states of emergency,
including her COVID lockdowns and recent ban on firearms, violate the constitutional purview of executive power and the legislative process.
The bill, signed by the entire House Republican Caucus, puts constraints on unchecked
executive power and establishes constitutional language that ceases a state of emergency, after ninety days, unless the legislature convenes before the ninetieth day and votes to extend the order by 3/5 vote.
In addition, the bill gives the legislature the authority, at any time, to call an extraordinary session to modify or terminate the executive order by 3/5 vote. Once the executive order has been terminated, the bill blocks the Governor from issuing an executive order on the same event.
In a joint statement, House Republicans stated, “We all have learned, during COVID, that unchecked executive power decimated our economy, closed local businesses forever, and deprived New Mexico children of their constitutional right to a sufficient education. And, when we thought she couldn’t go further, she used a public health order to suspend a well-established Constitutional right, the right to bear arms. It’s time that we ensure checks and balances remain a critical component of government, and we are committed to upholding our oath of office.”
GOP Bills to Watch
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 167 - Requiring medical care for all infants who are born alive
SB 83 - Requiring CYFD to conduct assessments and provide services upon failure to comply with a plan of care.
Anti-2A Bills
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 - 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.
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.
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
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
NM Legislators in the media:
• 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 (yahoo.com)