Although many of the hot-button Democrat bills have not yet been assigned a date in committee, one radical leftist bill will make its first appearance in committee on Monday, January 24. One positive bill regarding law enforcers will have its first hearing on Monday also.
Here are the bills you need to know about and how you can join these Monday committees:
S.B. 15 KN95 MASKS AND EDUCATION by Sen. Jeff Steinborn (D-Doña Ana)
This radical bill will waste more taxpayer money by shelling out $10 million state dollars to buy “KN95” masks to disseminate across all New Mexico schools, as well as a fund “a robust statewide public education campaign about the importance and proper usage of masks.”
The wasteful bill will appear in the Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee on Monday, January 24, 2022, at 1:30 or a half-hour after the floor session that day. The hearing will be held in Room 311.
The meeting details are below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87967039414 or via telephone 1 669 900 9128. The Webinar ID for SHPAC is 879 6703 9414.
Contact the committee members to advocate against this bill by clicking here.
S.B. 3 ENHANCING DEATH BENEFITS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT by Sen. George Muñoz (D-Cibola, McKinley, and San Juan)
This commonsense bill would enhance the death benefits for peace officers, mounted patrol officers, and reserve police officers in New Mexico.
After an officer has been determined to be killed in the line of duty, “[i]n addition to any other death benefits provided by law, the surviving spouse, children or parents shall be paid… one million dollars ($1,000,000) as supplemental death benefits.”
It appears Muñoz’s bill will also create a new fund called the “peace officers’, New Mexico mounted patrol members’ and reserve police officers’ survivors fund” that will reserve ten percent of “all money received for fees, licenses and penalties from life, general casualty and title insurance business pursuant to the New Mexico Insurance Code” to be paid monthly to the state treasurer and credited to the fund. It is to never have less than $1 million in the fund at all times.
It will also be heard in the Senate Health and Public Affairs on Monday at 1:30 p.m. or following the floor session that day.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87967039414 or via telephone 1 669 900 9128. The Webinar ID for SHPAC is 879 6703 9414.
NOTE: These committee schedules are subject to change. To find the most up-to-date committee schedules, visit the NMLegis.gov Calendars page.