Legislative Alert: Thursday committee hearings on job-killing enviro bill, women’s sports protections

The New Mexico Legislature is in full-swing and these are some opportunities for you to get involved by supporting good legislation and opposing bad legislation. 

New Mexico Senate:

SENATE TAX, BUSINESS AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
SENATOR BENNY SHENDO JR., CHAIRMAN Tuesday, February 25, 2021, 1:30 pm 

S.B. 11 (as amended) CLEAN FUEL STANDARD ACT by Sen. Mimi Stewart (D-Bernalillo) and Nathan Small (D-Doña Ana) – BAD (This is one of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s legislative priorities).

This anti-business bill put forth by two anti-energy extremist legislators, would in the bill sponsors’ own words, “[require] fuel providers that refine, blend, make or import fuel used in New Mexico to gradually reduce the carbon intensity of the transportation fuel itself, we can reduce emissions by 4.7 million metric tons in carbon dioxide equivalent by 2040. That’s like taking 44,000 cars off the road every year for 15 years.” 

This bill would harm critical industries in New Mexico with expensive and punitive new regulations on the transportation of the fuels New Mexicans rely on to keep them driving and doing business. This bill has an appropriation of $1,210,000 for the 2022 fiscal year alone, with it gradually increasing annually.

Join the meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83239240693

Meeting ID: 832 3924 0693

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Meeting ID: 832 3924 0693

New Mexico House of Representatives:

HOUSE CONSUMER AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
ELIZABETH “LIZ” THOMSON, CHAIR Thursday, February 25, 2021 – Ten minutes after floor session – Zoom

H.B. 304 WOMEN’S SPORTS PROTECTION ACT sponsored by Reps. Zachary Cook (R-Lincoln and Otero), Rod Montoya (R-San Juan), Jim Townsend (R-Chaves, Eddy, and Otero), among others seek to restrict participation by transgender athletes to the sports teams assigned to their “biologic sex.” – GOOD

Testify in support of this bill with the following information: 

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Webinar ID: 892 4373 7297

HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
PATRICIA A. LUNDSTROM, CHAIR Thursday, February 25, 2021 – 15 minutes after the floor session adjourns – Zoom

H.B. 43 BLACK EDUCATION ACT by Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton (D-Bernalillo) and Sen. Harold Pope (D-Bernalillo) – BAD

This is a racist bill that would force public schools to institute sensitivity training, or “anti-racism” training, as well as mandatory Black culture curricula by changing the Public School Code.

The fiscal impact report reads: “It creates a New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) Black Education Liaison and a Black Education Advisory Council, and provides the powers and duties of these. It creates new sections in the Public School Code requiring racial sensitivity and anti-racism training or professional development for school personnel. It requires PED and the New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) to cooperate in developing programs, curricula and instructional materials that recognize and teach Black culture and antiracism.” 

Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89195400245 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +13462487799,,89195400245# or +16699009128,,89195400245# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592

Webinar ID: 891 9540 0245

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