Legislative Roundup: 27 Days Left In 2021 Session
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Collins confirmed: The Senate on Friday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Tracie Collins as secretary of the state Department of Health by a 38-1 vote, with Sen. Craig Brandt, R-Rio Rancho, casting the lone dissenting vote.
Brandt said he sent Collins two separate letters and never received a response.
“I do not believe that the lack of response is good policy, a good way to run the department,” he said, adding Collins said during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Rules Committee she had never received the letters.
During the committee hearing and then on the Senate floor, lawmakers praised Collins as highly qualified to run the department, which has been at the forefront of the state’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 by the numbers Over the weekend, New Mexico health officials reported 747 new COVID-19 cases: 427 on Saturday and 320 on Sunday. Santa Fe County had 19 total new cases 16 on Saturday and three on Sunday. The state also announced 25 additional deaths, with 11 on Saturday and 14 on Sunday. Those deaths included two from Santa Fe County: a man in his 60s with underlying conditions on Saturday, and a man in his 70s with underlying conditions on Sunday. There have now been 3,624 deaths statewide. As of yesterday, 242 people were hospitalized with COVID-19. You can read all of SFR s COVID-19 coverage here. If you ve had experiences with COVID-19, we would like to hear from you.
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To some degree, the two contrasting actions that played out late Friday morning spoke volumes about this year’s 60-day legislative session. In the House of Representatives, members prepared to debate a contentious bill that would repeal a decades-old law making it a felony to perform an abortion. Around the same time, in her Santa Fe […]