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Following a nearly four hour budget meeting on Tuesday, the UNM Board of Regents voted to table any decision on tuition and compensation increases for Fiscal Year 2015, but agreed to meet in open session again on Friday, March 28 at noon. In the ...

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez signed a $6.15 billion FY15 budget that funds state government, public schools and higher education.  

The House of Representatives this afternoon approved the state budget contained in SB 313 with a vote of  58 - 8  and applause for legislators and staff who crafted the compromise.This comes nearly two weeks after the House failed to pass the budget ...

The NM Senate has unanimously passed a state budget and applauded itself for the accomplishment.  Their version of the General Appropriations Act, contained in SB 313, calls for spending of $6.19 billion or a 5 percent increase. 

This fledgling New Year already brings budget recommendations from the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) and the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) that will provide baselines for budget talks in the upcoming session of the New Mexico...

The LFC took up the issue of lottery scholarship solvency Tuesday afternoon.  HED Secretary Jose Garcia told the committee there were two separate issues to be considered...

Governor Susana Martinez waited until the last hour of the last day to take action on several of the most important bills to emerge from the 2013 session of the New Mexico Legislature, including the state budget, capital outlay and the bill that keeps ...

There is always some drama to be had during the waning hours of the session. The great unknown was whether agreement on funding to buttress the lottery scholarship for the coming year would make it out of conference committee and be adopted on both ...

Hello. Keeping you informed on actions in the House:Budget ConcurrenceIt took Senators less than 10 minutes yesterday to unanimously approve the $5.9 billion state budget. Today, House members took more than 75 minutes to debate concurrence.Republican ...

There is much to be said for working out issues ahead of time. The Senate unanimously approved the state budget this afternoon following some time outs for caucus on both sides of the aisle. There was no debate and just one out-of-order amendment that ...