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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Good Governance Bills, Proposal to Create a Statewide Board of Education & Navajo Nation President Assesses First Month on the Job
Description: New Mexico in Focus Senior Producer Lou DiVizio opens the show with updates on several pieces of legislation moving through the Roundhouse:
SB 73 would open primary elections to all voters in the state if passed. Right now only party-affiliated voters can participate. The bill passed the Senate last week and now moves on to the House.Â
HB 7 would guarantee access to reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare to anyone in the state is passed. It was voted through the House last week.Â
HB 4 would reform elections in several ways – by expanding automatic voter registration, allowing conv...