February 17, 1999
Legislative Summary The Associated Press Wednesday, Feb. 17 Introduced in the House HB729: Permits carrying a firearm into an establishment licensed to dispense alcoholic beverages for temporary display purposes. Thompson.
HB730: For Grady village water tank, Curry County. Mallory.
HB731 GF: For initiating New Mexico Rivers Information System. Coll.
HB732: Expands laws governing recipients of nonprobate transfers made to a recipient outside of a will. Pederson.
HB733: Enacts Racial Justice Act prohibiting defendants from being executed as result of a sentence imposed on basis of race or ethnicity. Pederson.
HB734: Repeals existing Revised Uniform Principal and Income Act. Pederson.
HB735 GF: For educational technology programs. Chavez.
HB736: Extends lottery tuition benefits to armed forces veterans who are full-time resident students. Russell.
HB737: Proposes a Qualified School Bonds Act to provide corporate taxpayers with a tax credit while increasing available funds for schools. Russell.
HB738: Clarifies and restricts political subdivisions. Heaton.
HB739: Creates Health Care Access Act and establishes Essential Community Provider Fund. Varela, Coll, Sandoval, etc.
HB740: Creates a state Workforce Development Board. Varela, Rios, Coll, etc.
HB741: Excludes public hospitals from open meetings where trade secrets are discussed. Silva.
HB742: Protects administrative records of a public hospital from inspection. Silva.
HB743: Eliminates restriction that Traditional Historic Communities can only be located in Santa Fe County. J.G. Taylor.
HB744: Allows a victim of harassment or stalking to petition a district court for an order of protection. J.G. Taylor.
HB745: Changes provisions for issuance of special registration plates to armed forces veterans to include motorcycles. J.G. Taylor.
HB746 GF: For economic development initiatives in rural and semirural areas. J.G. Taylor.
HB747: Allows wine growers to join with other licensed growers to sell wine at a common facility. J.G. Taylor.
HB748 GF: To implement a voice identification software system. J.G. Taylor.
HB749: Repeals law prohibiting the practice of law without certified admission to state bar. Foley, Vickers, Macko.
HB750: Allows municipal bonds to be paid with gasoline tax revenue. Kissner.
HB751: Provides for candidates for office of Supreme Court justice to be exempt from rules against campaign solicitations. Martinez.
HB752: Extends period of time in which to file an interlocutory appeal. Martinez.
HB753: Clarifies provisions regarding court automation bonds and distribution of money from Court Automation Fund. Martinez.
HB754 GF: For southern New Mexico Rehabilitation Center in Roswell, Chaves County. Foley, Dana, Williams, etc.
HB755 GF: For matching federal funds to add 63 new child support enforcement officers. Saavedra, Sandoval, Miera, etc.
HB756: Requires state to reimburse counties incarcerating persons awaiting trail for a felony. King, Pederson.
HB757: Provides detailed procedures for isolation of anyone with a threatening communicable disease refusing voluntary treatment. Picraux, King, Beam, etc.
HB758: Increases maximum contract length for a public school administrator. Stewart, Miera, Picraux.
HB759: Amends Motor Vehicle Code to provide for permanent registration of certain trailers and new registration fee for others. Chavez, J.G. Taylor.
HB760: Requires area vocational school boards to establish five single-member election districts. Abeyta.
HB761: Forbids a person appointed as appraiser in a judicial sale of personal property from bidding or having any interest in the sale. Abeyta.
HB762 GF: For payment for anti-obesity prescription drugs not eligible for reimbursement under Medicaid program. Abeyta.
HB763: Amends New Mexico Lottery Act to require 100 percent of net lottery revenues go to tuition scholarships. Abeyta, Saavedra, etc.
HB764: Removes authority for all elected county officials to receive same salary increase as that authorized for newly elected county officials. Williams, Roberts, Townsend, etc.
HB765: Allows a Board of County Commissioners to provide a salary increase for elected officials. Williams, Roberts, Townsend, etc.
HB766 GF: For teacher training for students participating in programs to develop students' awareness of U.S. Constitution. King, Stewart, etc.
HB767: The Water Well Drillers Licensing Act, prohibits a person from representing himself as a well driller unless he is licensed. Gonzales.
HB768 GF: For program that assists at-risk youths with development of life skills. J.G. Taylor, Sanchez.
HB769: Allows school districts to develop policies and procedures to conduct urinalysis drug testing of any school employee under reasonable suspicion. Rodella, Irwin, Stewart, etc.
HB770: For studying a pipeline project to transport natural gas to other markets and states. Sanchez, Sandel, Lujan, etc.
HB771: Remove from Medicaid Provider Act requirement that a provider be given at least seven days' written notice before an administrative investigation. Lutz, Beam, Coll, etc.
HB772: Doubles penalty for certain traffic offenses that occur in a construction zone. Macko, Stewart, Madalena, etc.
HB773: Requires a five-year driver's license revocation period after a DUI conviction. Macko, Malllory, Dana, etc.
HB774: Increases penalty for driving while license suspended or revoked for driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Macko, Russell, Lutz, etc.
HB775: Allows a former public officer or employee to represent a person in his dealings with the government. Miera, Abeyta, Picraux, etc.
HB776 GF: For survey within Pueblo of San Ildefonso's exterior boundaries. Lujan.
HB777: Requires motor carriers that transport the public to have insurance coverage. Lujan.
HB778 GF: To soil and water conservation districts for range improvements. Pearce, etc.
HB779 GF: For implementing Native American provisions of child health program. Madalena, etc.
HB780 GF: For Bernalillo school district, Sandoval County. Madalena, etc.
HB781 GF: For cultural sensitivity training and other programs in Children, Youth and Families Department. Madalena, etc.
HB782: Exempts employers of agriculture workers from overtime provisions. Stell, Williams, Pearce, etc.
HJR015: Amendment prohibits a legislator from serving more than a total of three terms in the Senate and six terms in the House. Tripp, Blanton, Godbey, etc.
HJR016: Provisions for persons to act as district judge pro tempore. Martinez.
HJR017: Amends constitution to allow any Board of County Commissioners to provide a midterm salary increase for an elected county officer. Williams, Roberts, Townsend, etc.
SB21: Tax payment method.
SB76: Secured transactions.
SB77S (substitute): Sex offender registration.
SB81: Project funds revoked.
SB84S (substitute): Ground water storage.
SB86: 911 emergency surcharge.
SB110: Promote quality teachers.
SB133: Unscrupulous legal services.
SB155: Crime: early election results.
SB174S (substitute): Grandparents' visitation.
SB224: Increase retiree health cap No. 2.
SB263: Retirees' health care premiums.
SB373: Toll-free calling statewide.
SBB445 GF: LFC staffing.
HCOR697: Santa Fe Indian School. Lujan.
HCOR698: Las Cruces homeless children. Rios.
HCOR699: Albuquerque YAFL building. Mohorovic.
HCOR700: Quemado schools. Tripp.
HCOR701: Reserve equipment purchases. Tripp.
HCOR702: Reserve waste water. Tripp.
HCOR703: Reserve water well. Tripp.
HCOR704: Reserve fair department. Tripp.
HCOR705: Socorro public library. Tripp.
HCOR706: Alamo reservation softball. Tripp.
HCOR707: Socorro sheriff's office. Tripp.
HCOR708: Tijeras water system. Godbey.
HCOR709: Las Cruces traffic lights. J.P. Taylor.
HCOR710: Tortugas ball park. Taylor.
HCOR711: NMSU health and social services building. Taylor, M.H. Garcia, Blanton, etc.
HCOR712: Mesilla Elementary sidewalk. Taylor.
HCOR712: Mesilla Town Hall building. Taylor.
HCOR713: Santa Fe Museum plaza improvements. Coll.
HCOR714: Belen alternative education. Vickers.
HCOR715 STB: Albuquerque's KiMo neighborhood. Gubbels.
HCOR716: Estancia improvements. King.
HCOR716: Estancia sewer lines. King.
HCOR717: Santa Fe, Edgewood senior center. King.
HCOR718: Santa Fe, Edgewood municipal building. King.
HCOR719: Torrance public safety improvements. King.
HCOR719: Torrance road repairs. King.
HCOR720: Chilili multipurpose building. King.
HCOR720: Escobosa senior center. King.
HCOR720: Mountain valley road. King.
HCOR721: La Cienega acequia upgrade. King.
HCOR722: Cerrillos dam repair. King.
HCOR722: Madrid exploratory well. King.
HCOR722: Santa Fe County road improvements. King.
HCOR722: Santa Fe community center improvements. King.
HCOR723: Artesia schools' educational technology. Foley.
HCOR724: Historic downtown Artesia. Foley
HCOR725: Artesia activity field. Foley.
HCOR726: Bulldog Bowl showers. Foley.
HCOR727: Berrendo Elementary improvements. Foley.
HCOR728: Military Heights Elementary improvements. Foley.
HCOR729: Washington Avenue Elementary School. Foley.
HCOR730: Eastern New Mexico state fairgrounds. Foley.
HCOR731: Roswell runway improvements. Foley.
HCOR732: Artesia County fairgrounds. Foley.
HCOR733: Artesia High School tennis courts. Foley.
HCOR734: Cielo Grande soccer complex. Foley.
HCOR735: Roswell public library. Foley.
HCOR736: Wool Bowl renovations. Foley.
HCOR737: Artesia schools technology. Foley.
HCOR738: Pioneer Plaza construction. Foley.
HCOR739: Artesia activity field. Foley.
HCOR740: Baca and Prewitt water. Martinez.
HCOR741: Baca and Prewitt multipurpose building. Martinez.
HCOR742: Albuquerque, Railroad Depot Museum. Miera.
HCOR743: Albuquerque, Martineztown recreation center. Miera.
HCOR744: Albuquerque High School cluster. Miera.
HCOR745: Albuquerque, District 13 road projects. Silva.
HCOR746: South Valley little league. Taylor.
HCOR747: Pajarito Hubbell House. Taylor.
HCOR748: Adobe Acres Anderson Park. Taylor.
HCOR749: Albuquerque. Rio Grande H.S. Taylor.
HCOR750: South Valley schools. Taylor.
HCOR751: South Valley Pajarito Elementary. Taylor.
HCOR752: South Valley drainage and paving. Taylor.
HCOR753: South Valley road paving. Taylor.
HCOR754: South Valley road improvements. Taylor.
HCOR755: South Valley boxing gym. Taylor.
HCOR756: South Valley Armijo School. Taylor.
HCOR757: South Valley youth crisis shelter. Taylor.
HCOR758: South Valley Isleta Blvd. Taylor.
HCOR759: South Valley traffic signals. Taylor.
HCOR760: South Valley water line extensions. Taylor.
HCOR761: South Valley administration building. Taylor.
HCOR762: North Valley community center. Sandoval.
HCOR763: North Valley District 17 roads. Sandoval.
HCOR764: Albuquerque, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Sandoval.
HCOR765: Albuquerque, District 17 schools. Sandoval.
HCOR766: KANW educational radio. Sandoval.
HCOR767: North Valley pump station. Sandoval.
HCOR768: KANW radio equipment. Sandoval.
HCOR769: Albuquerque, Los Griegos sewer. Sandoval.
HCOR770: North Valley Rio Grande center. Sandoval.
HCOR771: Albuquerque, Valley High School. Sandoval.
HCOR772: North Valley Mission Avenue Elementary. Sandoval.
HCOR773 STB: Los Vecinos community center. King.
HCOR774: Mountainair improvements. King.
HCOR774: Mountainair sewer system. King.
HCOR774: Mountainair street equipment. King.
HCOR775: District 50 school improvements. King.
HCOR776: Encino water system. King.
HCOR777: Vista Grande community center. King.
HCOR778: Rio Rancho Southern Blvd. Lutz.
HCOR779: Acoma Pueblo improvements. Madalena, Salazar, Begaye.
HCOR780: Santo Domingo schools. Madalena, Salazar, Begaye.
HCOR781: San Ysidro municipal building. Madalena, Begaye.
HCOR782: Roswell Chisum Elementary. Dana.
HCOR783: Edgewood Elementary school. Dana.
HCOR784: Roswell Nancy Lopez Elementary. Dana.
HCOR785: Roswell Mesa Middle School. Dana.
HCOR786: Roswell Pecos Elementary. Dana.
HCOR787: Roswell East Grand Plains Elementary. Dana.
Killed in the House HB314: Extending unfair claims coverage. 13-53
Passed in the House HB37: Government accountability. 66-0
HB121: Taxation: delinquent sale of property. 65-0
HB285: Uniformity of legislation. 65-1
HB343: Interest on delinquent support. 41-23
HB351: Domestic abuse orders. 63-0
HB509: Clarifying "State Park." 62-0
Introduced in the Senate SB102S (substitute): Specifies funding under Small Cities Assistance Act.
SB634 GF: For honoring New Mexico veterans who served in World War II. Rawson, Lyons, Duran, Leavell, Payne.
SB635: Prohibits smoking in any part of Capitol. Vernon.
SB636: Changes method of distribution of revenue from Insurance Department Suspense Fund. Macias, Jennings.
SB637: Creates Surface Rights Act to protect property owners upon whose land oil or gas operations are undertaken. Kysar, Aragon, Lyons, etc
SB638: Makes a legislative finding that Eagle Nest Dam and Reservoir is a valuable asset. Lyons, Cisneros, Campos, etc.
SB639: Authorizes state Game Commission to negotiate the purchase of Eagle Nest Lake, Dam and surrounding land. Lyons, Cisneros, Campos, etc.
SB640: Requires area vocational school boards to establish five single-member election districts. Lyons, Campos.
SB641: Requires approval by PRC of any bond issue by a municipality for acquisition of a utility. Rawson, Payne.
SB642: Requires a municipal board of utility commissioners be representative insofar as each municipal utility commissioner will "represent" a "commissioner district" within municipal utility's service area. Rawson, Payne.
SB643 GF: To acquire land surrounding Vietnam memorial in Colfax county. Lyons, Cisneros, Fidel, McKibben.
SB644: The New Mexico Religious Freedom Restoration Act. McSorley, Payne.
SB645: Reduces a percent of Local DWI Grant Fund from liquor excise tax revenues. Howes, Feldman, Wilson, etc.
SB646: Attaches New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps Commission to state Land Office. Aragon.
SB647 GF: For Office of International Technical Cooperation at the Latin American Institute at University of New Mexico, Bernalillo County. Aragon.
SB648: Prohibits motor vehicle businesses or their owners from selling motor vehicles on Sundays. Aragon.
SB649: Amends Corrections Act to require private prison contractors with state contracts to provide information on out-of-state and federal inmates in their facilities. McSorley, Lopez.
SB650: For Legislative Council Service. Altamirano.
SB651: Increases total amount of bonds that Finance Authority may issue to finance taxation and revenue information management system. Altamirano.
SB652: Allows resident students who earn a high school grade point average of 3.0 or higher or who finished in top quarter of their high school graduating class to get lottery tuition scholarships. Altamirano.
SB653: Would reduce portion of cigarette tax distributed to County and Municipal Recreational Fund. Aragon, Fidel, McKibben, etc.
SB654: Increases cigarette tax. Aragon, Fidel, Cisneros, etc.
SB655: Amends school election law to permit county clerks to declare winners in school board elections with only one candidate, no declared write-in opponents and no questions or bond issues. Lyons, Duran, Griego, etc.
SB656: Transfers Bureau of Business and Economic Research from University of New Mexico to governor's control. Maes, Fidel, Griego, etc.
SB657: Creates Private-Public Parternship Division within Economic Development Department. Maes, Fidel, Cisneros, etc.
SB658: Transfers state Fire Marshal Division from the Insurance Division to the Department of Public Safety. Stockard, Vernon, Aragon, etc.
SB659 GF: For Farmington inter-tribal Indian organization, San Juan County. Pinto, Kysar, Stockard.
SB660 GF: For Albuquerque's La Vega traffic study. Lopez.
SB661: Excludes community-based developmental disability programs from the Medicaid managed care program. Lopez.
SB662: Creates a water and waste-water project grant fund to be administered by the New Mexico Finance Authority. Lopez, Aragon.
SB663: Restricts maximum area of any outdoor advertising. Robinson.
SB664: To reimburse licensed gun dealers and gun show sellers for cost of providing trigger safety locks. Robinson.
SB665: Transfer Office of Guardianship Services from Attorney General's office to state Treasurer's Office. Robinson.
SB666: Increases minimum wage to $9 an hour. Lopez, Aragon, Cisneros.
SB667: Creates a law enforcement training fund to be administered by Department of Public Safety. Lopez, Stockard.
SB668: Expands Absent Voter Act in a wide variety of ways. Duran, Gorham, Campos, etc.
SB669: Amends New Mexico Lottery Act to open lottery tuition scholarships to students who obtain a 2.5 gpa during first semester of full-time enrollment. Smith.
SB670: Provides detailed procedures for isolation of anyone with a threatening communicable disease who has refused voluntary treatment. Garcia, Cisneros, Lopez.
SB671 GF: For Gallup northside road loop, McKinley County. Pinto.
SB672: Would revise disbursement of money in Magistrate Court Warrant Enforcement Fund. Robinson.
SB673: Provides that all receipts from selling prosthetic devices may be deducted for tax purposes. Robinson.
HB037: Government accountability.
HB121: Taxation: delinquent sale of property.
HB285: Uniformity of legislation.
HB343: Interest on delinquent support.
HB351: Domestic abuse orders.
HB509: Clarifying "State Park."
SCOR64: South Valley Coors Blvd. Lopez.
SCOR895: Las Cruces community center. Rawson.
SCOR896: District 7 projects. Lyons.
SCOR896: District 7 water and sewer. Lyons.
SCOR897: Albuquerque, North Valley community center. Feldman.
SCOR898: Albuquerque, Mission Avenue community center. Feldman.
SCOR899: State Auditor's office. McKibben.
SCOR900: Navajo Route 37. Pinto.
SCOR901: Navajo Route 659 Pinto.
SCOR902: Navajo Route 9505. Pinto.
SCOR903: Navajo Route 96. Pinto.
SCOR904: Navajo Route 9660. Pinto.
SCOR905: San Juan Crystal Road. Pinto.
SCOR906: Navajo Route 69. Pinto.
SCOR907: Navajo Route 9652. Pinto.
SCOR908: San Juan County Road 7750. Pinto.
SCOR909: McKinley County Road 61. Pinto.
SCOR910: McKinley State Road 264. Pinto.
SCOR911: McKinley County Road 27. Pinto.
SCOR912: Gallup northside Head Start. Pinto.
SCOR914: Crystal irrigation system. Pinto.
SCOR915: Roswell Parkview Elementary. Adair.
SCOR916: Roswell Sunset Elementary. Adair.
SCOR917: Roswell Del Norte Elementary. Adair.
SCOR918: Roswell Valley View Elementary. Adair.
SCOR919: Roswell Mountain View School. Adair.
SCOR920: Roswell Missouri Ave. Elementary. Adair.
SCOR921: Roswell Sierra School. Adair.
SCOR922: Roswell Berrendo School. Adair.
SCOR923: Navajo Powerline Extensions. Pinto.
SCOR923: Roswell Monterrey Elementary. Adair.
SCOR924: Roswell fairgrounds. Adair.
SCOR925: Roswell city buildings. Adair.
SCOR926: Roswell Cahoon pool. Adair.
SCOR927: Roswell Cahoon tennis court. Adair.
SCOR928: Roswell air center. Adair.
SCOR929: Roswell runway. Adair.
SCOR930: Roswell public library. Adair.
SCOR931: Artesia fairgrounds. Adair.
SCOR932: Artesia NMSU greenhouse. Adair.
SCOR933: Roswell Cielo Grande Complex. Adair.
SCOR934: Taos Acequias De Chimisal. Cisneros.
SCOR935: Albuquerque, Balloon Museum. Robinson, Gorham.
SCOR936: Albuquerque, Highland High School. Robinson.
SCOR937: Albuquerque, Hayes Middle School. Robinson.
SCOR938: Albuquerque, Museum of Natural History. Robinson.
SCOR939: Sepello Fire Department. Griego, Campos.
SCOR940: Luceros fire station. Cisneros.
SCOR941: San Miguel County Road B31A. Griego, Campos.
SCOR942: Albuquerque, Manzano High School. Robinson.
SCOR943: Albuquerque, Museum of Natural History. Robinson.
SCOR944: Albuquerque, Wherry Elementary. Robinson.
SCOR945: Albuquerque, Hayes Middle School. Robinson.
SCOR946: Albuquerque, La Mesa Elementary. Robinson.
SCOR947: ENMU scrum machine. Robinson.
SCOR947: NMSU scrum machine. Robinson.
SCOR947: San Juan College scrum machine. Robinson.
SCOR948: Albuquerque, 98th Street. Lopez.
SCOR949: Albuquerque, Navajo Elementary. Lopez.
SCOR950: Albuquerque, Carlos Rey Elementary. Lopez.
SCOR951: Albuquerque, Rio Grande High School. Lopez.
SCOR952: Albuquerque, Mary Ann Binford Elementary. Lopez.
SCOR953: Albuquerque, South Valley clinic. Lopez.
SCOR954: Bernalillo County South Valley. Lopez.
SCOR955: Albuquerque, Vito Romero Road. Lopez.
SCOR956: Albuquerque, Tom Tenorio Park. Lopez.
SCOR957: Albuquerque, Sunrise Terrace Park. Lopez.
SCOR958: Albuquerque, Westgate Park. Lopez.
SCOR959: Bernalillo South Valley roads. Lopez.
SCOR960: Bernalillo therapeutic pool. Lopez.
SCOR961: South Valley boxing gym. Lopez.
SCOR962: South Valley multipurpose center. Lopez.
SCOR963: South Valley bus turnouts. Lopez.
SCOR964: South Valley Coors Blvd. Lopez.
SCOR965: Tularosa recreation center. Duran.
Passed in the Senate SB76: Secured transactions. 27-0
SB77S: Sex offender registration. 35-0
SB81: Project funds revoked. 32-0
SB84S: Ground water storage. 32-0
SB133: Unscrupulous legal services. 30-4
SB155: Crime: early election results. 31-2
SB224: Increase retiree health cap No. 2. 34-0
SB263: Retirees' health care premiums. 34-1
GF, General fund appropriation; STB, Severance tax bonds, HCOR, House capital outlay request; SCOR, Senate capital outlay request.
