New Mexico governor signs bill to fund legislature, security
Associated PressSANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed the first bill of the 2021 legislative session, which funds legislative operations in the state capitol, including an unprecedented amount of security spending in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington D.C. House Bill 1 provides around $32 million in funding for legislative staff, as well as meals and travel stipends for unsalaried legislators. It included $2.1 million in additional security funding, including $675,000 for overseeing the National Guard as part of an unprecedented lockdown of the capitol complex. During the opening day of the session on Tuesday, officers, soldiers and sheriff’s deputies guarded entrances along a one-block corridor on street surrounding the capitol grounds. The bill also provides $200,000 to pay for the governor’s legal team as it faces ongoing lawsuits related to pandemic-related public health orders.
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