House Bill 58 called a model of cooperation
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Contact: Minda McGonagle, State Director, [email protected]
or Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, [email protected]
SANTA FE, N.M., May 17, 2017—Democrats and Republicans came together on an issue of huge importance to New Mexico small businesses during the regular session of the Legislature—and got something done! Today, the state director for the representative group for Main Street entrepreneurs called on lawmakers to carry that spirit of cooperation over into the upcoming special session.
“Passage of House Bill 58, which is a great first step toward reining in the state’s regulatory morass, is a model of bipartisanship on an issue of huge importance to the Main Street, mom-and-pop shops our state needs to generate jobs,” said Minda McGonagle, New Mexico state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, America’s largest and leading small-business association with 325,000 members across the nation, including nearly 1,500 in New Mexico.
NOTE TO EDITORS: A 694-word editorial explaining the importance of HB 58 further and the burden of regulations small-business owners labor under is now available on the NFIB/New Mexico webpage. Feel free to use it as content for your publications and website.
Highlights from the editorial:
“Although states aren’t as big of a headache-inducer as the federal government has proven to be, they do chip in, which is why House Bill 58 is such a welcome relief. According to the Legislative Finance Committee analysis of HB 58, “it provides a uniform process for the consideration of rule changes across state government while increasing the opportunities for the public to participate in the rulemaking process.”
“Democrat Representatives Linda Trujillo and Tomas Salazar, in partnership with Rep. Nate Gentry, the Republican minority floor leader, and Democrat Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto sponsored HB 58. The jointly shepherded bill passed the House of Representatives by an impressive 63-to-0 vote and later passed the Senate by an equally notable 40-0 vote. The governor signed it into law April 7 and now has a beneficial new tool that demonstrates what ‘business friendly’ means.”
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For more than 70 years, the National Federation of Independent Business has been the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America’s economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges and priorities.
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