On March 6, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law our omnibus tax package, House Bill 252.
Included in this legislation was the language of House Bill 163 of which I and Rep. Jenifer Jones, my Republican colleague from Deming, were chief sponsors.
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