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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 23, 2024 11:41 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] NMLA 2024 Legislative Bulletin #4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">2024 NMLA Legislative Bulletin #4 January 24, 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">LIBRARY LEGISLATIVE DAY IS THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 26</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Come to Legislative Day and ask library supporters in your community to attend. NMLA is presenting an orientation session for attendees from 8:30 to 9:30 am in Room 326 in the Capitol.
Larry Horan, NMLA’s legislative advocate, will present tips for working with legislators and describe what to expect from the 2024 session. Our colleagues from each type of library will summarize their needs and agendas. Then we can visit legislators' offices.
The House floor session is likely to begin at 11:00 am, and Representative Kathleen Cates will note the occasion of Library Legislative Day and recognize us in the gallery. The Senate floor session is likely to begin at 11:30 am, and Senator Jerry Ortiz y
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">A diagram of the 3rd floor of the Capitol and information about Santa Fe parking are attached. Arrive early as parking lots fill quickly. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Another alternative is to take the New Mexico Rail Runner Express train. Northbound #102 Express leaves Belen at 5:36 am and arrives at the Santa Fe Depot at 7:48 am. At the depot,
Santa Fe Pick Up downtown shuttles are available when the train arrives and stop at the Capitol. Return southbound trips leave the depot at 1:02, 2:46 and 4:15 pm. <a href="https://www.riometro.org/226/Weekday">https://www.riometro.org/226/Weekday</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">SENATE BILL 170 by Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Rural Library Endowment Fund Appropriation of $30 million</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> As noted last time the Governor's budget requested $10 million this year, which would have raised the endowment fund to $38 million. However, the Legislative Finance Committee
budget had no recommendation for additional Rural Libraries Endowment funding. The program as envisioned by prime sponsor Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino, co-sponsored by Representative Gail Armstrong, seeks to have an endowment fund of over $50 million to yield
effective assistance to public and tribal libraries serving communities under 3,000 people. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Supporters should contact their local legislators, as well as members of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. These members are listed
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://nmlegis.gov/">https://nmlegis.gov/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Here is the text of the Rural Libraries Endowment Fund bill:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">INTRODUCED BY Gerald Ortiz y Pino</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION.--Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the rural libraries endowment fund for expenditure in fiscal year </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">2025
and subsequent fiscal years for the purposes of the fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">HB 123 PROSCRIBING THE BANNING OF LIBRARY </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">MATERIALS.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">In response to organized attempts to have targeted titles and categories of books removed from public libraries, Representative Kathleen Cates and four co-sponsors have introduced
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">INTRODUCED BY Kathleen Cates and Harold Pope and Antoinette Sedillo Lopez and </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">AN ACT RELATING TO LIBRARIES; PROSCRIBING THE BANNING OF LIBRARY </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">MATERIALS.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] PUBLIC LIBRARIES--PROHIBITING BOOK BANNING.--</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">A. A public library shall not be eligible to receive state funds unless the library:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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or the author's race, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation or political or religious views pursuant to rules promulgated by the state librarian.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">(1) "ban" means the act of removing or prohibiting the addition of materials from a public library;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">House Appropriations & Finance Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Rep. Meredith A. Dixon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Rep. Gail Armstrong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Rep. Rod Montoya<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Rep. Randall T. Pettigrew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Rep. Joseph Sanchez<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Rep. Debra M. Sariñana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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