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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 House Bill 78, which protects clinics that buy discounted medicine under a federal program called 340B. Federally qualified health centers use that discount to stretch their budgets and serve low-income patients. The act bars drug manufacturers from blocking those clinics, or the pharmacies they contract with, from getting and handing out the discounted drugs. The New Mexico House passed it 36-28, and it became law.

March 15, 2025Supports 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 37, which creates a strategic water reserve fund. The Interstate Stream Commission runs it and may hold up to fifteen million dollars. Anything above that goes back to the state's main account. The money buys or leases water and water rights from willing sellers, and the act tells the commission to weigh whether a deal also helps wildlife habitat, recreation, or traditional and cultural uses. The New Mexico House passed it 42-20, and it became law.

March 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 83, which creates an innovation in state government fund. The Department of Finance and Administration holds it. Lawmakers may give agencies money from the fund to write master plans and hire staff, so the state can cut its emissions to net zero and carry out climate policy. An agency that takes the money must report each year on how it will be spent. The New Mexico House passed it 31-25, and it became law.

March 20, 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 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 Senate Bill 59, which widens who is covered by New Mexico's minimum wage law for public works. That law sets a floor on pay for workers on a state or local construction job. The act counts an off-site shop that fabricates heating, cooling, ventilation or exhaust ducts for the job as part of the project site, so those workers are covered too. It applies to bids and proposals issued on or after July 1, 2025. The New Mexico House passed it 34-27, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Senate Bill 59, which widens who is covered by New Mexico's minimum wage law for public works. That law sets a floor on pay for workers on a state or local construction job. The act counts an off-site shop that fabricates heating, cooling, ventilation or exhaust ducts for the job as part of the project site, so those workers are covered too. It applies to bids and proposals issued on or after July 1, 2025. The New Mexico House passed it 34-27, and it became law.

March 21, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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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 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 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 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 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 House Bill 8, a public safety package. A court may now send a defendant who is not a danger to a community program, to get well enough to stand trial, rather than to jail. The act adds murder, criminal sexual penetration and aggravated arson to the crimes that let a court hold a defendant. It also makes it a felony to own a device that turns a gun into a machine gun. Penalties go up for car theft, shooting threats and fentanyl dealing. The New Mexico House passed it 48-20, and it became law.

February 15, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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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 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 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 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 House Bill 8, a public safety package. A court may now send a defendant who is not a danger to a community program, to get well enough to stand trial, rather than to jail. The act adds murder, criminal sexual penetration and aggravated arson to the crimes that let a court hold a defendant. It also makes it a felony to own a device that turns a gun into a machine gun. Penalties go up for car theft, shooting threats and fentanyl dealing. The New Mexico House passed it 48-20, and it became law.

February 15, 2025Supports 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 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 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 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 78, which protects clinics that buy discounted medicine under a federal program called 340B. Federally qualified health centers use that discount to stretch their budgets and serve low-income patients. The act bars drug manufacturers from blocking those clinics, or the pharmacies they contract with, from getting and handing out the discounted drugs. The New Mexico House passed it 36-28, and it became law.

March 15, 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 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 against 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.

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