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What the budget represents, according to Committee Chair Nathan Small (D-Las Cruces), is an effort to wisely spend the projected $3.4 billion budget surplus while also limiting spending growth to prevent sharper cuts in the future.
A bill to appropriate $250,000 to provide menstrual products to incarcerated individuals in state prisons passed by a 4-2 vote along party lines in the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee. HB 120, sponsored by state Rep. Janelle Anyanonu, D-Albuquerque, would provide the appropriation in non-recurring funds for Fiscal Year 2025. State Rep. Stefani Lord,