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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 14th, 2026 at 01:49 pm

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, gentlemen, this bill is specifically responding to lobbyist regulation and those who are required
  • And on page one, on line 13, we add a simple line revising the definitions in the Lobbyist Regulation
  • And so this amendment then redefines the lobbyist regulation act to only include non-profit corporations
  • And so I would direct you to the Lobbyist Regulation Act where it does have a definition for lobbying
  • Investor-owned utilities present their energy efficiency filings to the Public Regulation Commission.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 14th, 2026

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker, gentlemen, this bill is specifically responding to lobbyist regulation.
  • This bill is specifically responding to lobbyist regulation and those who are required to register as
  • On page one, on line 13, we add a simple line revising the definitions in the Lobbyist Regulation Act
  • And so this amendment then redefines the Lobbyist Regulation Act to only include nonprofit corporations
  • Speaker, gentlemen, but they are, and so I would direct you to the Lobbyist Regulation Act, where it
Summary: The House opened with quorum, invocation, pledge, and several announcements recognizing guests and Early Childhood Day at the Roundhouse, including remarks supporting New Mexico’s universal child care efforts. The chamber then received and adopted a long series of committee reports, moving multiple bills forward, including HB 303, SB 96, HB 195, HB 279, HB 292 (with a Judiciary substitute), SB 30, HB 234, SB 35, SB 40, SB 43, HB 153 (with an Appropriations substitute), HB 253, HB 255, HB 287, HB 371 (with an Appropriations substitute), SB 143, HB 248 (with a Taxation and Revenue substitute), HB 309, SB 48, and enrollment/signing reports for memorials. The House also received Senate Judiciary Committee substitute for SB 41, which would eliminate the statute of limitations for certain sexual crimes and was referred to Judiciary. The main floor debate centered on House Judiciary Committee substitute for HB 99, a medical malpractice reform bill. Supporters said it would balance patient compensation with provider stability by capping punitive damages, raising the burden of proof for punitive damages, and limiting when such claims can be pleaded. Several members described the bill as the product of months of bipartisan work and argued it would help retain doctors, especially in rural areas. The House passed HB 99 on final passage by a vote of 16-3. The House also passed HB 66, expanding the health care provider loan repayment program, by 69-0; HB 306, addressing unexpected patient-facing facility fees, by 69-0; HB 38, adding wheelchairs to insurance coverage for certain prostheses-related benefits, by 69-0; HB 20, allowing Native American applicants to request a distinguishing designation on driver’s licenses and ID cards, by 66-3; and HB 253, preserving and regulating virtual education with an emergency clause, by 69-0. The chamber then took up HB 213, which expands optometrists’ scope of practice to include certain laser eye procedures. A proposed amendment requiring patients to sign a disclosure acknowledging that optometrists are not MDs or DOs and did not attend medical school was debated at length, with supporters framing it as informed consent and opponents calling it demeaning and unnecessary. The House tabled that amendment 35-19, and the underlying bill continued in debate at the end of the transcript.