“Junior” Funding on Special Session Agenda
On March 9, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham vetoed SB 48, the "junior" supplemental budget bill. The $790,000 we had secured to continue the Health Security Plan design process was just one part of this bill, which contained funding for many other good programs.
Now the governor has called a special legislative session, to begin next Tuesday, April 5. During this session, which will likely only last a day or two, the legislature will take up a slightly revised "junior" funding bill. We are working with our allies in both houses to make sure that the funding for the Health Security Plan design process remains in the bill! The legislature is not, at this time, planning to override the governor's veto of the original bill.
Sen. Ortiz y Pino and other legislators feel confident that when the legislature meets next week, the $790,000 will be restored to the budget, enabling the design process to resume!