Issues/Bills We Will Support Leading Up to the 2021 Session
Below you will find a short list of some of the legislation that either didn’t pass or wasn’t even considered this year, that we will fight for in the months leading up to the 2021 Session. We will flesh this list out with more details as we collaborate with our allies.
- Create a Just Transition Plan for New Mexico
- Decriminalize Abortion
- Implement the Health Security Act (HSA study funded in 2019 will be ready this fall)
- Form a State Public Bank
- Plan for a Paid Legislature
- Adopt Energy Choice Aggregation
- Increase Royalties & Penalties on Oil & Gas Operations
- Approve Community Solar
- Legalize Marijuana
- Increase Working Families Tax Credit
- Amend the Energy Transition Act
- Expand telecommunications and internet access in rural NM
- Implement an Electric Vehicle Tax Credit
- Impose a Fracking Moratorium
- Form an Independent Redistricting Commission
- Lower Small Loan APR Rates
- Prevent Disclosure of Personal Information by State Agencies
- Increase Funding for Rural Libraries
- Legalize End of Life Options
- Ban the Use of Produced Water
- Approve Vote-by-Mail in NM