The 2026 legislative session has now entered the closing stretch. No new bills can be introduced since the deadline for introduction was February 4th. There are currently 378 bills pending in the House of Representatives and 313 bills pending in the Senate. As is customary, some of the bills are not actual proposals; rather they are dummy bills introduced on…
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The 2026 legislative session is approaching the midway point. The final day that any new legislation can be introduced is Wednesday, February 4th. There are currently 292 bills pending in the House of Representatives and 218 bills pending in the Senate. The information we have remains somewhat limited since only one of the bills we are tracking has been heard…
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The 2026 legislative session has now entered the second week of the session. This is a short session scheduled to last only 30 days. There are currently 147 bills pending in the House of Representatives and 131 bills pending in the Senate. The information we have is somewhat limited since none of the bills we are tracking have been heard…
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The 2026 legislative session will be called to order today (Tuesday) at noon. This is a short session scheduled to last only 30 days. This anomaly in our state constitution restricts the agenda to budget matters as well as those items specifically requested by the governor. Forntunately, none of the horrible bills we had priortiezed last session made it to…
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The deadline for submitting bills has passed and there is just under four weeks remaining in this legislative session. The Liberty and Justice Coalition (LJC) remains hopeful of positive outcomes regarding the bills we are working on. These bills have been discussed in previous LJC legislative updates, so only their statuses are presented below. Both the House and Senate saw a…
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The fourth week of the legislative session was marked by little movement on the bills that have been identified as priorities by Liberty and Justice Coalition (LJC). In the past week, no new bills of concern were introduced. This is encouraging, considering that Wednesday, February 16 is the last day for the introduction of new bills. Although much mischief can…
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The sixty-day legislative session has ended its third week. As of this writing, there are 353 bills pending in the House of Representatives and 372 pending in the Senate. All bills are routed through relevant committees in each chamber and those committees provide recommendations to the full body as to whether or not the bill should be passed. While this…
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Today marks the end of the second week of this year’s sixty-day legislative session. As we stated previously, any bill can be introduced for consideration during a 60-day session. We had anticipated that there would be several “tough-on-crime” bills introduced. Some of these proposals are retreads from previous sessions and others are brand new. We will need additional time to…
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The New Mexico Legislature convened for a 30-day session this past Tuesday. This will be a sixty-day session which means any bill can be introduced for consideration. Lawmakers from both political parties say crime will be a dominant issue in the session, as it was in last year’s gubernatorial race. What remains to be seen is whether Democrats and Republicans…
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The 2022 legislative session will adjourn at noon on Thursday. The session has had some surprises that we had not anticipated. Although this year’s session has proven to be focused on cracking down on crime, nothing has passed through the process as of this writing. Due to the fact that 2022 is an election year for the office of Governor…
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