What Sarah’s working on
Sarah is preparing for her first legislative session, which begins Jan. 21. She plans to sponsor several pieces of legislation:
• Seeking millions of dollars to build a public safety facility in Chaparral for law enforcement, firefighters, animal control, and EMS. It would also include a facility for road maintenance. The facility would be located on the Otero County side of the community but officials plan MOUs that would allow both counties to utilize the facility. Learn more by reading her column in the Las Cruces Bulletin, KRWG or the Albuquerque Journal.
• Funding a study on the options and opportunities for local governance in Chaparral, including incorporation, creating a new county, moving the line between Otero and Doña Ana counties so the community is entirely located in one, and other issues.
• Allowing and funding the expansion of the magistrate circuit courts to include Chaparral and Sunland Park so residents don’t have to travel to other, distant communities to resolve minor issues such as traffic citations.
• Banning grocery and retail store digital price tags, also known as “dynamic pricing,” in New Mexico.
• Improving protections for journalists in New Mexico.
• And more to come!
Sarah is also excited to vote in the upcoming session for the Paid Family Medical Leave Act, which would let you take time off from work to care for your loved ones when they’re sick. The Act narrowly failed to pass last time, and Sarah is hopeful it will become law this year.
