Lujan Grisham OKs bills on guns, medical cannabis, campaign finance [View all]
SANTA FE – New Mexico will scrap its A-F rating system for public schools, overhaul its campaign finance regulations and impose new firearms restrictions on domestic abusers under a number of bills signed into law Thursday by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham – marking an abrupt shift in policy from her Republican predecessor.
The state will also allow students to take medical marijuana on school grounds, in limited circumstances, under legislation approved Thursday.
The approvals come as Lujan Grisham faces a deadline of midnight tonight to act on bills passed in the final days of the 2019 legislative session, which ended March 16. A few dozen bills are awaiting action.
Thursday’s approvals highlighted the stark change in policy priorities after Lujan Grisham succeeded Republican Susana Martinez on Jan. 1.
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