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Teen falls from school skylight
Lujan works to extend Native American funding
Breed ban bill makes its way through legislature
Newsbreak New Mexico 5 p.m. Webcast 2/19/13
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Teen falls from school skylight
Lujan works to extend Native American funding
Breed ban bill makes its way through legislature
Gov. appoints a pair to the NMFA board
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The Senate has confirmed two board
members of the New Mexico Finance Authority, which was caught in a scandal last
year over a fake audit.
Clovis businessman Blake Curtis was unanimously
confirmed and Albuquerque
Curtis
is a former state legislator. Winter serves as the authority's board
chairwoman.
Republican Gov. Susana Martinez appointed the pair to the board
overseeing the authority, which provides low-cost financing for capital
improvements by cities, counties, schools and other New Mexico
Nearly 30 animal protection bills in the legislature
Animal rights advocates say the number of bills aimed
at helping animals is higher than usual this year.
They say one reason is the
increased awareness of the connection between cruelty to animals and abuse of
people.
Elizabeth Jennings, executive director of Animal Protection New Mexico,
says her agency is tracking some 30 bills this session, including proposals to
make extreme cruelty like starving an animal or letting it freeze to death a
fourth-degree felony.
Newsbreak New Mexico 12 p.m. Webcast 2/19/13
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Trophy poaching bill garners attention
High school dropout bill aims to take licenses
Gov. makes NMFA appointments
High school drop out rate bill aims to revoke licenses
It’s halfway through One bill would require school districts to track those wannabe at-risk students through truancy records and failing grades, and then work with the Motor Vehicle Division to deny their licenses or revoke them.
Sen. Craig Brandt, a Rio Rancho Republican, is the bill's sponsor. Brandt's bill would make it harder for kids to drop out, financial hardship or illness being the main excuses. It would require students and parents to sit down for an exit interview with the principal, where all of the drawbacks to dropping out would be spelled out.
Pregnant women advised to get whooping cough vaccine
Health officials in
The
recommendation on Monday by the New Mexico Department of Health is intended to
prevent the spread of the disease to children who are vulnerable to whooping cough.
Eight hundred seventy-four whooping cough cases were reported to health
officials in New Mexico New Mexico
The New Mexico Department of Health
recommends that all pregnant women receive the Tdap booster after the 20th week
of pregnancy.
Discussion continues over min. wage bill
Voters
could decide whether to increase
The House Voters and Elections Committee is scheduled to
consider the proposal today. It's already cleared one House committee on a
party-line vote, with Democrats favoring it and Republicans opposed.
The state's $7.50 an hour
minimum wage has been in effect since 2009. A proposed constitutional amendment would allow voters to
decide whether to require automatic cost-of-living increases in the wage rate
each year.
Business groups have opposed the legislation.
The measure goes to the
70-member House if it's endorsed by the Voters and Elections Committee.
Lawmakers squash liquor tax bill
A measure proposing a local-option liquor excise tax has once again died in the New Mexico House of Representatives. The House Taxation and Revenue Committee last week tabled House Bill 212 on a late-night vote, and the proposal is unlikely to see the light of day again during this legislative session.
Year after year, county and city officials — including Santa Fe city councilors and county commissioners — have asked for the local taxing authority that McKinley County already has. They want to raise more revenue to provide steady funding for alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment. But the result has been predictably similar: State lawmakers aren’t going for it.
Rep. Jim Trujillo, D-Santa Fe, said he objected to the law because it would put an “undue burden” on liquor distributors who would have to change computer systems to charge different tax rates in different counties. Excise taxes are tacked on to delivery invoices, he said, not at the cash register. The other reason he cited for rejecting the proposal was that it would increase the cost of alcohol to the point where people would stop buying it in stores.
“Moonshine is being made and we are not getting any revenues from that,” Trujillo said at the hearing. “The more expensive it is, the more moonshine you are going to see being made in homes.” Read more
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Gov. comments on "veiled blackmail"
Leg. works on Lottery shore up bill
State launches corrections dept. probe
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Gov. comments on "veiled blackmail"
Leg. works on Lottery shore up bill
State launches corrections dept. probe
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