STATE News:
SANTA FE – The following legislative interim committees are scheduled to meet the week of Oct. 23 through Oct. 27:
- Oct. 23 @ 1 p.m. – Legislative Council (LC), State Capitol, Room 307, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: Approval of Minutes; Interim Committee Business; Staff Reports
- Oct. 24-27 @ 8:30 a.m. – Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) State Capitol, Room 307, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: Program Evaluation: Cost drivers in Higher Education and Efforts to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Duplication; Department of Health (665): Preview of FY19 Appropriation Request; New Mexico Corrections Department (770): Preview of FY19 Appropriations Request – Otero County Facility; LFC 60th Anniversary – History of LFC; Perspective of Officials and Former Legislators
- Oct. 25 @ 8:30 a.m. – LFC, State Capitol, Room 307, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: Children, Youth and Families Department (690): Preview of FY19 Appropriation Request; Human Services Department Performance Report; Medicaid and TANF: Preview of FY19 Appropriations Request; Working Lunch: Audit of Insurance Premium Liabilities; Outlook for Public School Support and Initiatives
- Oct. 25 @ 2:30 p.m. – Subcommittee A, Room 307
- Agenda Items: Executive/General Control – Governor; Lieutenant Governor; State Commission of Public Records; State Personnel Office; Administrative Hearings Office; Education Trust Board; Regulation: Board of Veterinary Medicine; Medical Board; Board of Nursing; Board of Examiners for Architects; State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Surveyors; Public Employees Labor Relations Board; Gaming Control Board
- Oct. 25 @ 2:30 p.m. – Subcommittee B, Room 321
- Agenda Items: Courts/Others – Supreme Court; Supreme Court Building Commission; Supreme Court Law Library; Court of Appeals; New Mexico Compilation Commission; Judicial Standards Commission; Department of Military Affairs; Spaceport Authority. Public Safety: Juvenile Public Safety Advisory Board; Crime Victims Reparation Commission; Parole Board; Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management; New Mexico Sentencing Commission
- Oct. 26 @ 8:30 a.m. – LFC, State Capitol Room 307, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: Program Evaluation – Costs, Benefits, and Outcomes from Drug Courts; New Mexico Finance Authority Budget Overview FY18 – FY19; Staff Reports – State Auditor, Indian Affairs Department, Commission of Public Lands
- Oct. 26 @ 1:30 p.m. – Subcommittee A, Room 322
- Agenda Items: Commission for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons; Governor’s Commission on disability; Developmental Disabilities Planning Council; Commission for the Blind: Miners’ Hospital; Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission; Office of African American Affairs; Workers’ Compensation Administration; Division of Vocational Rehabilitation; Office of Natural Resources Trustee; Youth Conservation Corps; Livestock Board;
- Oct. 26 @ 1:30 p.m. – Subcommittee B, Room 321
- Agenda Items: Economic Development – Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad Commission; Intertribal Ceremonial Office; Boarder Authority; Office of Military Base Planning; State Fair Commission. Education: Regional Educational Cooperatives; Public School Facilities Authority; Cooperative Extension Service/Agriculture; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center;
- Oct. 27 @ 8 a.m. – LFC, State Capitol, Room 307, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: Retiree Healthcare Authority; Educational Retirement Board; Public Employees Retirement Association; Department of Game and Fish; Racing Commission; Miscellaneous Committee Business; Action Items; Review of Monthly Financial Reports & Information Items – Public School Accountability Report; LFC FY 18 Budget Status; Bar Report; Cash Balance Report; Full Time Employees by Agency; LFC Program Evaluation Status Report; Capital Outlay Report
- Oct. 24 @ 9 a.m. – Behavioral Health Subcommittee (BHS) of the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee (LHHS), State Capitol, Room 321, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: High-Risk Youth Suicide; Human Services Department (HSD) Transition Processes When a Behavioral Health Provider Intends to Terminate Services; Public Comment; Santa Fe County Behavioral Health Initiatives
- Oct. 24-26 @ 9 a.m. – Legislative Education Study Committee (LESC), State Capitol, Room 322, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: PED Local Education Agency (LEA) Special Education Maintenance of Effort Reconciliation for FY11 through FY15; House Memorial 49: Media Literacy Best Practices; Resilience in New Mexico Agriculture Task Force Strategic Plan; Directors Report; Community Input
- Oct. 25 @ 8:30 a.m. – LESC, State Capitol, Room 322, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) No Time to Lose; Why Early Childhood Education Matters: The Science of Brain Development; Early Learning in High-Performing Countries; Lessons Learned from Finland and the UK; National and Local Early Childhood Education Landscape
- Oct. 26 @ 9 a.m. – LESC, State Capitol, Room 22, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: Next Generation Science Standards
- Oct. 25 @ 9 a.m. – Legislative Health and Human Services Committee (LHHS), State Capitol, Room 321, Santa Fe
- Agenda Items: Enhanced Nursing Compact; Report on Senate Memorial 50, 2017 Regular Session – Study of New Mexico Families That Use Two or More Types of Social Services; Public Comment; Senate Joint Memorial 6, 2017 Regular Session – Study Direct-Care Workforce; Domestic Violence in New Mexico: Batterers Intervention Program
- Oct. 27 @ TBD – Criminal Justice Reform Subcommittee (CJRS), TBD, Albuquerque
All interested persons are welcome and encouraged to attend any of the interim committee public meetings. For more information and detailed agendas, visit the legislative website at https:////www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/. All meetings held at the Capitol are webcast at https:////www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/webcast/default.aspx.
