New Mexico Senate approves ethics commission
The state Senate approved a compromise bill late Tuesday night that would give the newly created New Mexico Ethics Commission subpoena power and authority to enforce the state’s open meetings laws.
The emergency measure, Senate Bill 668, cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday evening. The vote was 11-0. This ended a stalemate, as two other bills had stalled in another committee. The Senate later approved the bill with a vote of 40-0.
Under the new proposal, the executive director of the commission would have authority to make complaints public or to seal them.
If the director finds probable cause of an ethical breach and the case is settled, the terms would be made public in 45 days, said Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D-Albuquerque, who helped craft the new bill.
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