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Voted for Senate Bill 21, which gives people on Medicare a yearly chance to change their Medigap plan. Medigap is private insurance that pays costs Medicare leaves behind. Each year a policyholder aged 65 or over gets a 60-day window to switch to a plan worth the same or less, starting the first day of their birthday month. The insurer may not ask about their health, charge more for it, or make them wait for a condition they already had covered. The New Mexico House passed it 41-22, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 4, which sends more of a tax on health insurance premiums to the state's health care affordability fund. That fund holds down premiums and other costs for people who buy coverage on New Mexico's exchange. In the version the House voted on, the fund's share rises from 55 percent to 80 percent in September 2027, then to 100 percent in September 2028. The rest had been going to the state's main account. The New Mexico House passed it 48-19. The Senate later moved 5 percent of the 2028 share to a behavioral health program fund, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 2 from the October 2025 special session, which widens what New Mexico's health care affordability fund may do. That fund holds down premiums for people who buy coverage on the state exchange. The act lets the state draw on it whenever a change in any federal program cuts residents' coverage, not only if the Affordable Care Act itself is struck down. It also drops the income ceiling for the fund's help with premiums. The New Mexico House passed it 49-13, and it became law.

October 1, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 45, which widens what a county may pay for out of its health care assistance fund. That fund already covered ambulance rides, hospital care and burial costs for residents too poor to pay. A county may now also pay all or part of a poor resident's monthly insurance premium, and their copayments and deductibles. The New Mexico House passed it 55-14, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 88, which creates a Medicaid trust fund and a state-supported Medicaid fund. The state invests the trust fund. Once it holds at least five hundred million dollars, it starts paying out each July from 2029 five percent of its average value over the past three years. Lawmakers may draw on it sooner if federal Medicaid money drops sharply, or through 2029 if a federal cut would leave people with less coverage than they have now. The New Mexico House passed it 52-13, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 376, which changes how the state pays for its workers' health insurance. From July 2025 the state pays eighty percent of the cost for every worker. Before, it paid a smaller share as pay went up. The act also lets the Health Care Authority cap what it pays a hospital, and the hospital may not bill the worker for the rest. The authority may also use the health care affordability fund to cut premiums for lower-paid workers and National Guard members. The New Mexico House passed it 52-13, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 120, which makes permanent a rule that health plans may not charge patients out of pocket for behavioral health care. Behavioral health care covers treatment for mental illness, substance use and trauma, including hospital stays, therapy and medicines. The rule had been set to end on January 1, 2027, and the act removes that end date. It applies only to care from providers in the plan's network. It does not apply to limited benefit plans, catastrophic plans, or high deductible plans paired with a health savings account until the patient has met the deductible. The New Mexico House passed it 46-17, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 15, which gives the state a say when a New Mexico hospital is bought or merged. Before the deal closes, the parties must file notice, and the insurance superintendent and the health care authority review it. Regulators can approve the deal, block it, or approve it with conditions. The New Mexico House passed it 47-20, and it became law.

February 13, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 273, which requires health plans to treat mental health like other medical care. An insurer may not put tighter limits on mental health or substance use treatment than it puts on the rest of its coverage. Insurers have to show they follow the rule. The New Mexico House passed it 52-13, and it became law.

March 17, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 397, which puts school-based health centers into state law. The health department pays for them, regulates them, and writes the rules they follow. The centers give students health care at school. The New Mexico House passed it 40-25, and it became law.

March 15, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 317, which raises the tax on health insurance to 3.75 percent of premiums. Part of that money goes into a new fund used to bring down the cost of coverage for New Mexico families and small businesses. The bill also stops health plans from charging a copay or deductible for mental health care. The New Mexico House passed it 43-26, and it became law.

March 19, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 71, the Patients' Debt Collection Protection Act. Hospitals and clinics must check whether a patient qualifies for help paying, and they may not chase a patient who is too poor to pay. The act also limits how long such a judgment can be enforced and strips attorney fees from some collection suits. The New Mexico House passed it 42-28, and it became law.

March 16, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 126, which requires health plans in New Mexico to cover a heart artery calcium scan for certain people. The scan looks for calcium in the arteries around the heart, an early sign of heart disease. The rule reaches state employee plans, Medicaid, commercial insurance and health maintenance organizations. The New Mexico House passed it 39-19. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 12, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 100, which changes how New Mexico's health insurance exchange works. The board gets new duties and must offer standardized health plans, so shoppers can compare plans that cover the same things. The exchange also has to report on what it does. The New Mexico House passed it 44-23. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 11, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 42, which makes health plans pay pharmacists the same as other providers for the same care. If a trained pharmacist does work that another licensed professional could do, the plan must pay the same rate. The rule covers state worker plans, Medicaid and private insurance. The New Mexico House passed it 40-21, and it became law.

February 8, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 156, which keeps the New Mexico Department of Health in charge of school vaccine rules. A law passed in the October 2025 special session would have handed that job back on July 1, 2026 to a federal advisory committee and the American Academy of Pediatrics. This act repeals that hand-back. The department's own recommendations decide which shots children need for child care and school. The New Mexico House passed it 51-14, and it became law.

February 9, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 3 from the October 2025 special session, which moved control of New Mexico's vaccine rules to the state. School shot rules had to match a federal advisory committee. They now follow the state Department of Health, or the American Academy of Pediatrics. The department also sets adult advice, guided by national doctors' groups or its own judgment, and the rules now reach children in licensed child care. The New Mexico House passed it 43-26, and it became law.

October 2, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 9, which raises the fines New Mexico can charge a company that breaks the state's rules for oil and gas pipelines. The act ties the state's top fine to the federal one, so the most the state may charge is now the most the federal pipeline safety law allows. When it picks an amount, the state still weighs how bad the breach was and whether the firm can pay. The New Mexico House passed it 45-15, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 48, which creates a community benefit fund in the state treasury. Lawmakers may spend it on projects that cut greenhouse gases, stop methane leaks at oil and gas sites, make the power grid stronger, add clean power, or build charging stations, bike paths and sidewalks. Most of those projects must first show that two public meetings were held in the community affected. The New Mexico House passed it 39-26, and it became law.

March 19, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 21, which rewrites the state's water pollution law. It makes it against the law to let waste out of a pipe, ditch or other single spot into a federally covered waterway without a state permit. That lets New Mexico run the federal clean water permit program itself, instead of leaving it to Washington. The act also orders new state rules for waste let into rivers, streams and lakes, and for dumping dirt or fill into them. It adds reasons the state must turn a permit down. It makes the party at fault for a spill pay to clean it up, and sets up a fund for polluted sites nobody is looking after. The New Mexico House passed it 43-25, and it became law.

March 19, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 5, which renames the State Game Commission the State Wildlife Commission. It also changes how the seven members are picked. The governor must now choose from a list drawn up by a nominating committee, members are held to two terms, and a member may be removed only for poor work or wrongdoing. The board may now protect any wild species by rule, not just animals that are hunted or fished, and some license fees go up. The New Mexico House passed it 42-26, and it became law.

March 12, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 128, which creates the local solar access fund inside the New Mexico Finance Authority. The fund makes grants to counties, cities, school districts, land grants-merced and tribes so they can plan, build and install solar power systems, including batteries, for buildings they own. It also pays for help applying for federal money. The authority had to write rules by December 31, 2025, and most of the money must go to rural applicants. The version the House passed set up the fund but put no money from the state's main account into it. The New Mexico House passed it 43-22, and it became law.

March 1, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 41, which sets up a clean transportation fuel standard for New Mexico. The state environmental improvement board must write rules that cut the greenhouse gases from transportation fuels by at least 20 percent below 2018 levels by 2030, and at least 30 percent by 2040. The board may charge fees to run the program. The New Mexico House passed it 36-33, and it became law.

February 3, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 181, which aims to prevent opioid overdose deaths. A prescriber who writes at least a five-day supply of an opioid painkiller must also prescribe naloxone, the drug that reverses an overdose. The naloxone comes with written directions and a warning to call 911 right after giving it. The New Mexico House passed it 46-20, and it became law.

March 17, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 72, which creates a wildlife corridors fund in the state treasury. The transportation department runs the fund and spends it on the road crossings and other work called for by the Wildlife Corridors Act, so animals can cross highways safely. The department must report on that work each year. The New Mexico House passed it 49-20, and it became law.

March 14, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 37, which starts a grant program to make low-income homes use less energy. The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority may seek and hand out the block grants, and a new fund holds the money. Work paid for this way, such as insulation and better heating, cuts a household's utility bills. The New Mexico House passed it 44-24, and it became law.

February 5, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 8, which lets New Mexico set air and hazardous waste rules stricter than the federal ones. Before adopting a tougher rule, the state must hold a hearing and find that the rule better protects public health and the environment. The New Mexico House passed it 39-29, and it became law.

March 18, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 32, the Wildlife Conservation and Public Safety Act. It bans the use of traps, snares and poisons to catch, hurt or kill animals on public land in New Mexico. Breaking the ban carries penalties. The New Mexico House passed it 35-34, and it became law.

March 18, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 112, which creates a sustainable economy task force and an advisory council. The task force must write a plan to move New Mexico's economy away from depending on oil, gas and other extraction. State agency heads have to follow that plan. The New Mexico House passed it 40-25, and it became law.

March 15, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 76, which lets the state say no to an air permit. The environment department may now turn down a company that has a bad record of following the rules. Before this, a bad record was not reason enough. The New Mexico House passed it 42-26, and it became law.

March 5, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 15, which set up a new round of sustainable building tax credits for 2021. A person or company that builds or remodels to a high energy standard can take the credit off their state income tax. The older credit is closed to new claims and renamed the 2015 credit. The New Mexico House passed it 48-22. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

March 3, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 51, the Environmental Database Act. It requires the state to build and run a public website where anyone can look up New Mexico's environmental data. The act says which agencies must supply that data and keep it current. The New Mexico House passed it 44-25, and it became law.

February 16, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 29, which brings back New Mexico's solar tax credit. A homeowner or business that puts in a solar system can take 10 percent of the purchase price off their state income tax, up to $6,000. The state caps how much credit it hands out in a year. The New Mexico House passed it 51-19, and it became law.

February 19, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 131, the Tobacco Products Act. It raises the age to buy tobacco to 21 and makes stores, makers and shippers hold a state license. The state's liquor control division checks that they follow the rules. Breaking them can bring a fine or a criminal charge. The New Mexico House passed it 40-28, and it became law.

February 18, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 75, the Wildlife Trafficking Act. It makes it a crime in New Mexico to buy or sell parts of animals threatened with extinction, such as elephants, lions and rhinoceroses. The act lists exceptions and sets penalties. The New Mexico House passed it 42-22, and it became law.

February 18, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 270, which widens who must pay into apprentice and training programs on public building work. Road, bridge, utility and maintenance contracts had been left out, and the act brings them in. Where a trade has no approved apprentice program, the required payment is set at zero, so no employer pays into a program that does not exist. The New Mexico House passed it 41-25, and it became law.

February 14, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 252, which rewrote New Mexico's income tax brackets and changed several other taxes. Starting in 2025 the lowest rate is 1.5 percent, the middle brackets are wider, and the top rate of 5.9 percent begins at $315,000 for a couple filing together. The bill also caps the tax break for capital gains and sets a single flat corporate rate. The New Mexico House passed it 48-21. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 7, 2024Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Senate Bill 41, which treats university research park corporations as public employers. Their workers now fall under the Public Employee Bargaining Act, so they can organize and bargain over pay and working conditions. The New Mexico House passed it 36-32, and it became law.

February 16, 2022Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Senate Bill 4, which firms up New Mexico's prevailing wage rules for public works. The state must set the prevailing wage and benefit rates each year by October 1, to take effect the next January 1. An appeal of a rate no longer puts it on hold unless a court or a final ruling says so. The New Mexico House passed it 44-25, and it became law.

February 15, 2022Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Senate Bill 17, the Family Income Index Act. The state ranks public schools by the family income of the students they serve and sends extra money to the schools serving the poorest families. The bill sets what a school may spend that money on. The New Mexico House passed it 52-18, and it became law.

March 19, 2021Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 291, which puts more money in the pockets of low-paid New Mexicans. It raises the low-income tax rebate and ties it to inflation, and it lifts the working families tax credit to 20 percent of the federal credit in 2021 and 25 percent later. It also opens that credit to workers who file with a taxpayer ID number instead of a Social Security number. The New Mexico House passed it 42-27. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

March 3, 2021Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 20, the Healthy Workplaces Act, which gives New Mexico workers paid sick leave. A worker earns one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours on the job and may use up to 64 hours a year. Employers who break the rules face penalties. The New Mexico House passed it 36-33. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 28, 2021Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Senate Bill 98, which tightens the wage rules on New Mexico public building jobs. Workers on those jobs must be paid a set local wage. The bill adds a way to handle a complaint that a contractor paid less, and it raises the fines for doing so. The New Mexico House passed it 45-25, and it became law.

February 19, 2020Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 364, which strengthens collective bargaining for New Mexico public employees. It changes how workers vote to form a bargaining unit, gives unions fair access to employees, widens what can be bargained, and adds employer practices that are banned. It also spells out what the state labor board can order. The New Mexico House passed it 43-25, and it became law.

February 18, 2020Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 6, which extends New Mexico's prevailing wage law to a new set of building projects. The prevailing wage is a minimum pay and benefit rate the state sets for each construction trade. An industrial revenue bond is a bond a local government sells to help pay for a private project. The act says that on a project a city or county backs with one of those bonds, the contractor must pay the prevailing wage and follow the rest of the public works wage law. The New Mexico House passed it 41-26, and it became law.

February 17, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 41, which treats university research park corporations as public employers. Their workers now fall under the Public Employee Bargaining Act, so they can organize and bargain over pay and working conditions. The New Mexico House passed it 36-32, and it became law.

February 16, 2022Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 4, which firms up New Mexico's prevailing wage rules for public works. The state must set the prevailing wage and benefit rates each year by October 1, to take effect the next January 1. An appeal of a rate no longer puts it on hold unless a court or a final ruling says so. The New Mexico House passed it 44-25, and it became law.

February 15, 2022Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 20, the Healthy Workplaces Act, which gives New Mexico workers paid sick leave. A worker earns one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours on the job and may use up to 64 hours a year. Employers who break the rules face penalties. The New Mexico House passed it 36-33. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 28, 2021Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 98, which tightens the wage rules on New Mexico public building jobs. Workers on those jobs must be paid a set local wage. The bill adds a way to handle a complaint that a contractor paid less, and it raises the fines for doing so. The New Mexico House passed it 45-25, and it became law.

February 19, 2020Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 364, which strengthens collective bargaining for New Mexico public employees. It changes how workers vote to form a bargaining unit, gives unions fair access to employees, widens what can be bargained, and adds employer practices that are banned. It also spells out what the state labor board can order. The New Mexico House passed it 43-25, and it became law.

February 18, 2020Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House Bill 493, which sets money-handling rules a local government or other group must meet before it gets a state grant for buildings and other special projects. The group's latest yearly audit must be a public record. If that audit does not cover one of the past two fiscal years, the state agency must find another organization willing to handle the money. The same applies if audits keep finding the same serious problems for more than two years running. Groups that state law does not require to have a yearly audit can qualify instead by showing the agency they have sound accounting practices. The New Mexico House passed it 51-13, and it became law.

March 20, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for House Bill 169, which lets people talk about ethics complaints they file against a state lawmaker. The old rule barred someone who filed a complaint from saying anything in public about the filing or the investigation. That gag is now gone. The New Mexico House passed it 39-28, and it became law.

February 15, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for House Bill 247, which tightens the rules for capital outlay, the money the state hands out for building projects. A project may be given more time only once, never for more than two years, and only if at least a tenth of the original money has already been committed. Any new grant of 100 thousand dollars or more must appear on a published infrastructure plan first. Money left unspent goes back to a state reserve fund. The New Mexico House passed it 48-20, and it became law.

February 9, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Senate Bill 152, which creates a program to help low-income New Mexicans pay for phone and internet service. A household qualifies if it gets need-based help from the Health Care Authority, includes an at-risk student, or meets the rules of the federal Lifeline program. A state fund for rural phone service pays for it, capped at 10 million dollars the first year and 45 million after that. The act repeals the older law that covered phone service alone. The New Mexico House passed it 48-14, and it became law.

February 18, 2026Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 96, which makes it easier to run a child care home. Such a home now counts as a residence for local zoning. A city or county may not add rules or permits it does not ask of other homes nearby, and may not charge a fee or a tax for the privilege of running one. A homeowners association may not single them out either, though its usual rules on parking, noise and looks still apply. The New Mexico House passed it 41-23, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 91, which changes the rates New Mexico's utility board may approve. That board, the Public Regulation Commission, sets what gas and power companies may charge. State law bars a utility from giving one set of customers an unfair edge. The act adds an exception, so the board may approve rates and plans that cut energy bills for people with low incomes. The New Mexico House passed it 42-25, and it became law.

February 25, 2025Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 533, which raises what school districts pay toward their employees' health insurance. A district or charter school must cover at least 80 percent of the premium for an employee earning under $50,000, 70 percent up to $60,000, and 60 percent above that. School staff pay less as a result. The New Mexico House passed it 44-16, and it became law.

March 4, 2023Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 132, which caps what small lenders in New Mexico may charge. A storefront or installment loan can no longer carry an annual rate above 36 percent. The bill also makes more lenders hold a state license and adds reporting and notice rules. The New Mexico House passed it 51-18. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 7, 2022Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 37, which starts a grant program to make low-income homes use less energy. The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority may seek and hand out the block grants, and a new fund holds the money. Work paid for this way, such as insulation and better heating, cuts a household's utility bills. The New Mexico House passed it 44-24, and it became law.

February 5, 2022Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 117, which clarifies the property tax break for low-income people with disabilities. It spells out how the limit on rising home values applies to them, so the value the county taxes does not climb with the market. Their tax bill stays steadier as a result. The New Mexico House passed it 41-12, and it became law.

February 20, 2020Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 111, which adds four items to the driver records the state must keep private. They are a person's sex, gender identity, immigration status and national origin. The list already held a photograph, a Social Security number and a driver's license number. The Motor Vehicle Division may no longer hand the new four out. The New Mexico House passed it 37-24, and it became law.

February 18, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 40, the Driver Privacy and Safety Act, which sets rules for license plate cameras. These cameras read a passing car's plate and record the time and the place. An operator may not sell or share that data if they have reason to think it will be used to enforce immigration law. The same bar covers data used to go after health care the state protects, or to punish conduct the constitution protects. Sharing needs a written policy, and operators must report on how the cameras get used. The New Mexico House passed it 42-22, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 124, which creates a New Americans Division inside the state Workforce Solutions Department. The division works with people living in New Mexico who are not United States citizens, or who were not citizens at birth. It must report each year on their numbers, their work and what they add to the state's economy. It must also study how refugee resettlement works in the state. The New Mexico House passed it 40-21, and it became law.

February 10, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 9, the Immigrant Safety Act. No New Mexico public body may sign, renew or extend an agreement to hold people for federal civil immigration violations. That covers counties, cities, sheriff's offices and school districts. A body already in such an agreement must end it as soon as it can, and none may use public property to help hold people on those grounds. The New Mexico House passed it 40-29, and it became law.

January 30, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 364, which changes who may be hired as a police officer in New Mexico. State law had said a peace officer must be a United States citizen. Under the act a person may also be hired if the federal government has given them the right to work here. The same change covers special deputy sheriffs, marshals and other peace officers. The New Mexico House passed it 38-20, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 36, which limits what state workers may do with people's private details. Those details include a person's immigration status, health, disability, religion or home country, who they are attracted to, how they see their own gender, and their Social Security number. A state worker may not pass them outside their own agency, apart from a short list of allowed reasons. The act also covers driver's license and vehicle records. Staff and contractors at the state tax office and at the state's Traffic Safety Bureau may not hand those records to anyone to help enforce the main federal immigration law, apart from its felony crime parts. Outside firms given access must promise in writing not to use them that way. The New Mexico House passed it 42-23, and it became law.

March 18, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 89, which rewrites who can get a state graduate scholarship. It drops the rule that a student be a United States citizen or hold a permanent resident visa, and instead requires the student to live in New Mexico. It gives priority to students from groups that are underrepresented in graduate school. A student now needs a bachelor's degree and a grade point average of at least 3.0, or a paid job helping faculty teach or do research, and must take at least six credit hours. The award may cover the full cost of tuition and fees, and may run until a final degree or eight semesters. The New Mexico House passed it 40-25, and it became law.

March 1, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 219, which ends the rule that people show proof of citizenship to get certain job licenses. An applicant may hand in a taxpayer ID number instead. If a person can do the work, the state may now license them whatever their immigration status. The New Mexico House passed it 45-23, and it became law.

March 15, 2021Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 291, which puts more money in the pockets of low-paid New Mexicans. It raises the low-income tax rebate and ties it to inflation, and it lifts the working families tax credit to 20 percent of the federal credit in 2021 and 25 percent later. It also opens that credit to workers who file with a taxpayer ID number instead of a Social Security number. The New Mexico House passed it 42-27. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

March 3, 2021Supports Immigration

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Voted for Senate Bill 137, which says the state may license a person for a job or profession whatever their immigration status. What matters is whether they are qualified for the work. A licensing board may not turn someone away over that status alone. The New Mexico House passed it 50-18, and it became law.

February 17, 2020Supports Immigration

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Voted for House Bill 200, which creates the New Homes for New Mexico program at the state Mortgage Finance Authority. The program lends money to first-time buyers toward a newly built starter home. A loan may not top 50 thousand dollars, or 75 thousand in Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Taos counties. A buyer must earn less than 120 percent of the area median income for a family of four, and must live in the home. The New Mexico House passed it 52-15, and it became law.

February 12, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 267, which limits what landlords may charge people who apply to rent a home. A listing must state the base rent and every fee in plain language. A screening fee, which covers the cost of a credit or reference check, may not be more than fifty dollars, and the applicant must agree to it in writing first. The landlord must give a receipt, must refund the fee within thirty days in stated cases, and may not charge a second screening fee within ninety days for other homes the same owner rents. The act lowers the cap on a late fee to five percent of the rent and says that fee is figured on rent alone. It also requires sixty days notice before a fee goes up, or one rental period's notice when the tenant rents for less than a month at a time. The New Mexico House passed it 42-21, and it became law.

March 20, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 195, which lets the New Mexico Finance Authority lend money for housing. It sets up a new housing fund and lets the authority make loans to housing partners who build homes that working people can afford. It also renames the board that reviews those loans and changes who sits on it. The New Mexico House passed it 50-16, and it became law.

February 6, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 241, which writes New Mexico's child care assistance program into law. The program helps families pay a child care provider. The act sets who qualifies and how providers are paid, with rates tied to staff roles and experience. It allows up to 700 million dollars more from the early childhood fund, and the department must report twice a year on the waiting list. The New Mexico House passed it 37-19, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Senate Bill 1, which sets up two new state funds for mental health and addiction care. The first is a trust fund that the state invests. From July 2026 it pays out five percent of its average value over the past three years into the second fund. The Health Care Authority spends that money, when lawmakers approve it, on treatment, staff, buildings and regional plans. The New Mexico House passed it 46-19, and it became law.

February 21, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 20, the Healthy Workplaces Act, which gives New Mexico workers paid sick leave. A worker earns one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours on the job and may use up to 64 hours a year. Employers who break the rules face penalties. The New Mexico House passed it 36-33. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 28, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 89, which rewrites who can get a state graduate scholarship. It drops the rule that a student be a United States citizen or hold a permanent resident visa, and instead requires the student to live in New Mexico. It gives priority to students from groups that are underrepresented in graduate school. A student now needs a bachelor's degree and a grade point average of at least 3.0, or a paid job helping faculty teach or do research, and must take at least six credit hours. The award may cover the full cost of tuition and fees, and may run until a final degree or eight semesters. The New Mexico House passed it 40-25, and it became law.

March 1, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 159, which sets up a permanent savings fund for higher education. It moves $959 million from the state tax stabilization reserve into a new higher education trust fund. Each year 5 percent of the fund's recent average value goes to a program fund that colleges can draw on. The New Mexico House passed it 43-18, and it became law.

February 12, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 153, which raises the yearly payout from the early childhood education and care fund. Each July the fund must send its program account 5 percent of its average value over the past three years, or $250 million, whichever is larger. Money the program does not spend goes back into the fund. The New Mexico House passed it 52-14, and it became law.

February 10, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 140, the Opportunity Scholarship Act. It writes New Mexico's tuition promise into law for residents taking at least six credit hours at a public college or tribal college in the state. The higher education department runs the scholarship, and the bill sets aside money for it. The New Mexico House passed it 51-17, and it became law.

February 16, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 17, the Family Income Index Act. The state ranks public schools by the family income of the students they serve and sends extra money to the schools serving the poorest families. The bill sets what a school may spend that money on. The New Mexico House passed it 52-18, and it became law.

March 19, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 83, which builds a permanent fund for early childhood education and care. When oil and gas school tax money runs above a set level, the extra goes into a holding fund, then on to the state's tax stabilization reserve and the new early childhood fund. A program fund draws on it to pay for child care and pre-kindergarten. The New Mexico House passed it 51-14, and it became law.

February 10, 2020Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 12, which changes New Mexico's law on extreme risk firearm protection orders. These are court orders that take guns away from a person a judge finds is a danger to themselves or others. Under the act a police officer may ask for one based on information the officer gathered on the job, instead of only when another person asks and swears out a statement. A person served with an order must hand over their guns right away, unless the court says otherwise. Whoever takes the guns must write a receipt and file it with the court within seventy-two hours. The New Mexico House passed it 41-27, and it became law.

February 25, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 5, which bars carrying a gun within 100 feet of the door of a polling place while voting is going on, and within 50 feet of a monitored ballot drop box. Police officers and a few others are exempt. Breaking the rule is a petty misdemeanor. The New Mexico House passed it 35-34, and it became law.

February 13, 2024Supports Gun Control

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Voted for House Bill 129, which requires a seven-day wait between the sale of a gun and handing it over to the buyer. The wait covers the time needed for a federal background check, and the seller cannot release the gun until that check is finished. Breaking the rule is a misdemeanor. The New Mexico House passed it 37-33. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 2, 2024Supports Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 5, the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act, often called a red flag law. A police officer can ask a court to order someone to give up their guns when that person is a danger. After a hearing, the order can last up to a year. The New Mexico House passed it 39-31, and it became law.

February 13, 2020Supports Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 30, which repeals New Mexico's requirement that every abortion be reported to the state registrar. The old law made the hospital, the clinic or the doctor file a report within five days. Those reports left out the patient's name, and the doctor's name was not released. After this act no such report is filed at all. The New Mexico House passed it 39-27, and it became law.

February 16, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 57, which adds an exception to the state's open records law. That law lets anyone ask to see a government record. Under the act the public may no longer get records that name, or hold private details about, a health care worker who is employed by a public body and who gives care tied to abortion. The New Mexico House passed it 42-25, and it became law.

March 18, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 13, which protects people who take part in reproductive or gender-affirming health care. If the care is legal in New Mexico, a patient, a doctor, or someone who helps them cannot be punished for it. The shield covers lawsuits, criminal charges, and the loss of a license. The New Mexico House passed it 38-30, and it became law.

March 17, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for House Bill 7, the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Freedom Act. It stops state and local governments in New Mexico from blocking someone's access to reproductive health care, such as abortion, or to gender-affirming care. Cities and counties can no longer pass local rules that get in the way, and the law can be enforced in court. The New Mexico House passed it 38-31. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 21, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 10, which repealed New Mexico's 1969 abortion ban. The old sections made most abortions a crime and set out narrow exceptions. Federal court rulings had left them unenforced, but they stayed on the books until this repeal. The New Mexico House passed it 40-30, and it became law.

February 19, 2021Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 264, which bars anyone from bringing armed troops, or other armed people in the civil, military or naval service of the United States, to a polling place or within 50 feet of a ballot drop box. The ban runs from 28 days before an election through election day. The one exception is fighting off armed enemies of the United States. Breaking the rule, changing who may vote, or otherwise blocking a voter is a fourth-degree felony, and a court may fine each violation 5 thousand to 50 thousand dollars. The New Mexico House passed it 41-26, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 182, which targets fake audio and video in campaign advertising. An ad that uses materially deceptive media must carry a disclaimer saying so. Handing out that kind of media to fool voters becomes a crime, a misdemeanor the first time and a felony after that. The New Mexico House passed it 38-28, and it became law.

February 12, 2024Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for Senate Bill 180, a large rewrite of New Mexico's election law. It starts a program to guard elections, makes poll watchers and challengers take training, and requires vote centers where any voter in the county can cast a ballot. It also changes the rules for mailed ballots and hides the home address of a public official. The New Mexico House passed it 44-25, and it became law.

March 14, 2023Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 4, the voting rights package. It sets up automatic voter registration at the driver's license office, creates a list for voters who want a mailed ballot every election, and restores the vote to people leaving prison. It also adds the Native American Voting Rights Act, which protects polling place access on tribal land. The New Mexico House passed it 41-26. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 21, 2023Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for Senate Bill 4, which set special rules for New Mexico's 2020 general election during the pandemic. County clerks could mail a ballot application to every voter without being asked. A remote polling place off tribal land could switch to mail-only voting with state approval, but a polling place on Indian nation, tribal or pueblo land could not be closed, merged or given shorter hours without that tribe's written agreement. A task force of lawmakers could let the secretary of state take emergency steps, and the rules ended after that election. The New Mexico House passed it 44-26, and it became law.

June 20, 2020Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 252, which rewrote New Mexico's income tax brackets and changed several other taxes. Starting in 2025 the lowest rate is 1.5 percent, the middle brackets are wider, and the top rate of 5.9 percent begins at $315,000 for a couple filing together. The bill also caps the tax break for capital gains and sets a single flat corporate rate. The New Mexico House passed it 48-21. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 7, 2024Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 111, which adds four items to the driver records the state must keep private. They are a person's sex, gender identity, immigration status and national origin. The list already held a photograph, a Social Security number and a driver's license number. The Motor Vehicle Division may no longer hand the new four out. The New Mexico House passed it 37-24, and it became law.

February 18, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for Senate Bill 40, the Driver Privacy and Safety Act, which sets rules for license plate cameras. These cameras read a passing car's plate and record the time and the place. An operator may not sell or share that data if they have reason to think it will be used to enforce immigration law. The same bar covers data used to go after health care the state protects, or to punish conduct the constitution protects. Sharing needs a written policy, and operators must report on how the cameras get used. The New Mexico House passed it 42-22, and it became law.

February 17, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for Senate Bill 36, which limits what state workers may do with people's private details. Those details include a person's immigration status, health, disability, religion or home country, who they are attracted to, how they see their own gender, and their Social Security number. A state worker may not pass them outside their own agency, apart from a short list of allowed reasons. The act also covers driver's license and vehicle records. Staff and contractors at the state tax office and at the state's Traffic Safety Bureau may not hand those records to anyone to help enforce the main federal immigration law, apart from its felony crime parts. Outside firms given access must promise in writing not to use them that way. The New Mexico House passed it 42-23, and it became law.

March 18, 2025Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for Senate Bill 16, which lets voters who did not pick a party vote in a primary election. A voter whose registration says no party may ask for the ballot of one of the major parties in that primary and vote it. Their registration is not changed unless they ask for that. Mailed ballot forms must offer the choice, and in precincts that vote by mail the county clerk sends a card the voter returns to say which party's ballot they want. The New Mexico House passed it 36-33, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 151, which tells New Mexico colleges that take state money to write rules on affirmative consent. The rules must say each person has to agree to sexual activity. They must also say a person who is asleep or knocked out can never agree, and a school uses that test when it judges a case. The New Mexico House passed it 44-17. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 4, 2024Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 13, which protects people who take part in reproductive or gender-affirming health care. If the care is legal in New Mexico, a patient, a doctor, or someone who helps them cannot be punished for it. The shield covers lawsuits, criminal charges, and the loss of a license. The New Mexico House passed it 38-30, and it became law.

March 17, 2023Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 139, which cuts back on court fees and on jail for people who cannot pay. It repeals several fees, lets people work off fines and costs through community service, and shortens how long a person can be jailed for not paying. Judges still set payment plans. The New Mexico House passed it 42-18, and it became law.

March 4, 2023Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 207, which widens New Mexico's Human Rights Act. The act now covers what the state, local governments and public contractors do, not only private employers and businesses. It also adds gender to the list of protected classes. The New Mexico House passed it 47-20, and it became law.

March 3, 2023Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 7, the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Freedom Act. It stops state and local governments in New Mexico from blocking someone's access to reproductive health care, such as abortion, or to gender-affirming care. Cities and counties can no longer pass local rules that get in the way, and the law can be enforced in court. The New Mexico House passed it 38-31. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 21, 2023Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4, the voting rights package. It sets up automatic voter registration at the driver's license office, creates a list for voters who want a mailed ballot every election, and restores the vote to people leaving prison. It also adds the Native American Voting Rights Act, which protects polling place access on tribal land. The New Mexico House passed it 41-26. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 21, 2023Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 31, which drops the rule that a person changing their legal name must publish a notice in a newspaper. A resident 14 or older still asks a district court for the change, but no longer has to make the request public. The publication law dated from 1889 and is repealed. The New Mexico House passed it 43-24, and it became law.

February 14, 2023Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 22, which requires every state department to make its programs usable by people who do not speak English well. Agencies have to provide meaningful access, such as translated forms or interpreters, so language does not shut someone out of a state service. The New Mexico House passed it 42-23, and it became law.

February 9, 2022Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 2, the Cannabis Regulation Act, which legalized cannabis for adults in New Mexico. A person 21 or older may buy and hold up to two ounces. A new cannabis control division licenses the growers and sellers, and the act taxes sales and shares part of that money with cities and counties. The New Mexico House passed it 38-32. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

March 31, 2021Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4, the New Mexico Civil Rights Act. It lets a person sue a public body, such as a police department or a school district, for breaking rights under the state constitution. Government can no longer use qualified immunity as a defense. The law caps what a person may recover and gives three years to file. The New Mexico House passed it 39-29. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 16, 2021Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 8, which makes New Mexico police wear body cameras when they deal with the public. Each agency must set rules for when the camera runs and how long the video is kept. An officer who leaves the camera off or erases video early faces consequences. Destroying that video also becomes grounds for a lawsuit. The New Mexico House passed it 44-26, and it became law.

June 22, 2020Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 5, which set up the New Mexico Civil Rights Commission. The commission had to study whether a person should be able to sue in state court when the state constitution is broken. It also looked at ending qualified immunity, the rule that shields officials from such suits. It had to report by November 15, 2020. The New Mexico House passed it 53-17. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

June 19, 2020Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 23, which raises the royalty New Mexico can charge on new oil and gas leases on its most productive trust land in the Permian Basin. A royalty is the share of the value of the oil or gas that the producer pays the landowner. On those tracts the rate must now be at least one-fifth and may go as high as one-fourth, where the old ceiling was one-fifth. It applies to leases issued on or after July 1, 2025, and the money goes to the schools and other beneficiaries that state trust land supports. The New Mexico House passed it 37-31, and it became law.

March 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 124, which gives the state's top insurance regulator a new way to dig into a case. That officer, the superintendent of insurance, watches over insurance firms in New Mexico. The act lets the superintendent send a subpoena, an order to turn over papers or answer questions, while still looking into a matter and before bringing any formal case. If a person ignores one without a good legal reason, the state may ask a court to make them obey. The New Mexico House passed it 40-23, and it became law.

March 19, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 586, which keeps and widens the state's review of health care mergers. The review law was set to end on July 1, 2025, and the act repeals that end date. It broadens what counts as a deal the state must review, including sales of a hospital or of the land under it, and purchases of independent medical practices by insurer-owned groups. It requires the Health Care Authority to post information about a proposed deal, take public comment and hold at least one public forum when it reviews one. It adds fines, protects staff who report wrongdoing, and requires yearly posting of who owns each hospital. Most of the material the state collects in a review stays confidential. The New Mexico House passed it 41-26, and it became law.

March 17, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 6, which extends New Mexico's prevailing wage law to a new set of building projects. The prevailing wage is a minimum pay and benefit rate the state sets for each construction trade. An industrial revenue bond is a bond a local government sells to help pay for a private project. The act says that on a project a city or county backs with one of those bonds, the contractor must pay the prevailing wage and follow the rest of the public works wage law. The New Mexico House passed it 41-26, and it became law.

February 17, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 15, which gives the state a say when a New Mexico hospital is bought or merged. Before the deal closes, the parties must file notice, and the insurance superintendent and the health care authority review it. Regulators can approve the deal, block it, or approve it with conditions. The New Mexico House passed it 47-20, and it became law.

February 13, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 132, which caps what small lenders in New Mexico may charge. A storefront or installment loan can no longer carry an annual rate above 36 percent. The bill also makes more lenders hold a state license and adds reporting and notice rules. The New Mexico House passed it 51-18. The Senate changed it, the House agreed, and it became law.

February 7, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 71, the Patients' Debt Collection Protection Act. Hospitals and clinics must check whether a patient qualifies for help paying, and they may not chase a patient who is too poor to pay. The act also limits how long such a judgment can be enforced and strips attorney fees from some collection suits. The New Mexico House passed it 42-28, and it became law.

March 16, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 2, which pays for highway work by letting the state Transportation Commission borrow up to 1.5 billion dollars more. The state road fund pays that back. To feed the fund, the act raises the tax on heavy trucks by 35 percent, raises car registration fees by 25 percent, and adds a new fee on electric and plug-in hybrid cars. The highway department must give lawmakers a list of the projects the borrowing will pay for. The New Mexico House passed it 44-23, and it became law.

January 30, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted for Senate Bill 7, which lets a city run a storm water system as a municipal utility. By ordinance a city may buy, build, operate and maintain a system that collects, treats, stores or disposes of rain runoff. It may then charge property owners a just and reasonable fee for that service, the way it already charges for water, sewer or gas. The New Mexico House passed it 46-18, and it became law.

March 18, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted for Senate Bill 1, the Regional Water System Resiliency Act. It lets local governments band together and form a regional authority to run their water systems. Such an authority can sell bonds and take over the assets, debts and water rights of the systems that join it. The New Mexico House passed it 46-22, and it became law.

March 6, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted for House Bill 50, which lets cities and counties use industrial revenue bonds to pay for electric transmission lines. Those bonds lower the cost of building the lines that carry power across New Mexico. A project financed this way must make payments to the state and to local school districts. The New Mexico House passed it 48-21, and it became law.

February 8, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted against Senate Bill 96, which raises prison terms for two violent crimes. Second degree murder now carries 18 years in prison. Trying to commit second degree murder also carries a higher penalty than before. The New Mexico House passed it 49-18, and it became law.

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