Gun-seizure and minimum wage bills advance in New Mexico
SANTA FE - New Mexico's Democrat-led House of Representatives passed a bill that would make it easier to take guns away from people who may be suicidal or a risk to others, in an emotionally charged debate on the eve of Thursday's anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
The gun-seizure bill would allow police or household members to seek court orders requiring people deemed threatening to temporarily surrender their guns.
The House also gave its approval Wednesday to raising New Mexico's statewide minimum wage for the first time in a decade. That bill would increase base wages from $7.50 an hour to $12 by July 2021, with automatic increases tied to inflation thereafter.
The initiatives now move to the Senate — the last major hurdle for two bills favored by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
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