Legislative Update for Feb. 1, 2013

A num­ber of UNM Bills are sched­uled to be heard in a House Edu­ca­tion sub­com­mit­tee Fri­day afternoon.

The House goes into ses­sion at 10 a.m. with the Sen­ate recon­ven­ing at 10:30 a.m.

Feb. 1 com­mit­tee hear­ings:
House Edu­ca­tion sub­com­mit­tee, Rm. 318 — 2 p.m.
H26 — UNM Land Grant Stud­ies
H69 — UNM Col­lege of Pub­lic Health
H80 — UNM Den­tal Sci­ence Pro­gram
H213 — UNM Minor­ity Math, Engi­neer­ing and Sci­ence Pro­gram
H244 - UNM Ven­ture Space Incu­ba­tor
H320 - UNM We the Peo­ple Program

House Tax and Rev­enue, Rm. 317 — 1:30 p.m.
H337  Work New Mex­ico Act

Sen­ate Pub­lic Affairs, Rm. 326 — 2 p.m.
S144 — Health Prac­ti­tion­ers Cost Shar­ing Rates
S148 — Analy­sis of Basic Health Pro­gram Costs
S156  - For­mu­lary Changes in Health Laws

Bills of inter­est intro­duced Jan. 31, 2013:
H356 — UNM Hos­pi­tal Indi­gent Care Report­ing, Rep. Bill Rehm
H357 — Reduce Tax Levy for County Hos­pi­tal Fund­ing, Rep. Bill Rehm
H360 — Cre­ate Read­ing First Pro­gram, Rep. Mimi Stew­art
H366 — Health Insur­ance Require­ments, Rep. Jeff Stein­born
H367 — Den­tal Ther­a­pists Act, Rep. Ed San­doval
S363 — Early Col­lege High Schools,  Sen. Mary Kay Papen
S366 — Com­bine Pre­scrip­tion Drug Refills, Sen. Daniel Ivey Soto

Susan McK­in­sey, Office of Gov­ern­ment and Com­mu­nity Relations