SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico lawmakers are closing out a 60-day legislative session that charts an economic exit from the pandemic. The emboldened progressive Legislature is pushing forward policing reforms, shoring up abortion rights, and allowing medical aid in dying. In the final hours, lawmakers are advancing proposals that would guarantee paid sick leave for private-sector workers and ramp up state tax breaks for working families. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has eagerly signed bills that provide new grants to small businesses and a $600 tax rebate to low-income workers. The Legislature isn’t passing recreational marijuana laws, but may try again in a special session.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico lawmakers are closing out a 60-day legislative session that charts an economic exit from the pandemic. The emboldened progressive Legislature is pushing forward policing reforms, shoring up abortion rights, and allowing medical aid in dying. In the final hours, lawmakers are advancing proposals that would guarantee paid sick leave for private-sector workers and ramp up state tax breaks for working families. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has eagerly signed bills that provide new grants to small businesses and a $600 tax rebate to low-income workers. The Legislature isn’t passing recreational marijuana laws, but may try again in a special session.