Climate and Energy Bills 2020

Bills that 350 New Mexico supported and opposed during the 2020 30-day regular New Mexico legislative session (January 21 to February 20, 2020).

Short sessions deal with budget and governor-called issues. This session ended with the passage of three key bills: HB233 – Grid Modernization, SB29 – Solar Tax Credit and HM9 – Renewable Energy Investment Strategic Plan. Opponents filibustered many of the other good bills and ran out the clock on this short session, including HB217 the EV tax credit bill, which came within hours of passing on the final day. Many others were tabled in the finance committees.

(This regular session was followed by a First Special Session in June 2020 (June 18-22) for COVID-19 related matters, and a Second Special Session in December 2020 (Dec 14) to address federal funding, with adjourned dates listed as late as Feb 22, 2021, due to the pandemic’s impact).

Updated on 2/20/2020-final, by 350NM
Link to the Governor’s call
Link to Abbreviations

350 NM supported these bills:

Bill ID	Title	Sponsor	Location	Scheduled
SB 2	ELECTRIC VEHICLE INCOME TAX CREDIT	Woods, Tallman, Akhil	HCAL filibuster	died
HB 217	ELECTRIC VEHICLE INCOME TAX CREDIT	Trujillo, Cadena, etc	HCNR filibuster	died
HB 233	ENERGY GRID MODERNIZATION ROADMAP	Stansbury, Akhil, Small, Woods, Stewart	Gov desk	Chaptered
HM 29	ENERGY OPERATION BONDING AMOUNTS Review New Mexico’s state-wide remediation and reclamation bonds for the O & G industry	Matthew McQueen	HCal	died
	Other great bills on the Governor’s call:
SB 29	SOLAR MARKET DEVMT INCOME TAX CREDIT Solar Tax Credit state for homeowners, business, ag.	Stewart, McQueen	Gov desk	Chaptered
*HB 11	PRC REORGANIZATION & TRANSFER DUTIES -Creates independent professional PRC staff	Nathan P. Small Linda M. Trujillo	SCORC	tabled story
SB 114	COMMUNITY ENERGY EFFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT (CEED) GRANT	Gerald Ortiz y Pino Andrea Romero	SFC	died
SB 6	ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION FACILITIES IRB ELIGIBLE – Allows access to low cost bond funding	Steven P. Neville Jacob Candelaria	SFC	died

Great bills not on the call:

Bill ID	Title	Sponsor	Location	Scheduled
HB50	AMENDING INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BOND ACT – to include certain electric transmission facilities as eligible	Nathan Small	passed	Chaptered
SB 143	COMMUNITY SOLAR ACT (House bill is HB 9)	Stefanics, R-Caballero	SCONC	died
HB 9	COMMUNITY SOLAR ACT	Roybal-Caballero, Egolf	Dead	fails 28-36
HB 173	GAS TAXES, NEW FUNDS & DISTRIBUTIONS – carbon dividend and fee for gasoline	Matthew McQueen	HAFC tabled	tabled
HM 9, HB 99	RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT STRATEGIC PLAN. – Draft a NM plan. Appropriate $50,000.	Joseph L. Sanchez	Passed	HM9 passed!
HB 48	FURNACE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM FUNDING – replace low effic. furnaces for low income homes	Eliseo Lee Alcon	HAFC	died
HB 166	HEALTHY SOIL PROGRAM FUNDING -$300,000 appropriation to NMSU	Chatfield, Small	HAFC	died
HB 60	DIFFERENTIAL RATES FOR INVESTMENTS Invest 1% of ($5.5B) Sev. Tax Fund in renewables	Sheryl Williams Stapleton	HRC	died
SB 104	PROHIBIT NEW HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PERMITS	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez	SCC

350 NM Opposed these bills:

	2020 Bills to Oppose
Bill ID	Title	Sponsor	Location	Session
SB32	Ratepayer Relief Act Alternate securitization bill Repeals the Energy Transition Act	William Soules	Senate Pre-file	Died
SB 20	FEE FOR ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLES $100 reg. fee for EV’s to for road costs (‘gas tax’)	Bill Tallman		Died. Tabled indefinitely
SB 18	RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION TAX – tax on utility-scale renewable electricity generation	Michael Padilla Linda M. Trujillo	tabled 9-0 in SCONC Tabled indefinitely	Died.
SB 294	Oil & Gas Tax Changes	Ramos	died	SCC/SCORC/SFC
HB283	HB 283 would diminish solar system installation incentives.	Stapleton, Akhil	HTRC died	HENRC/HTRC-HENRC [4] DP/a-HTRC