LWVNM Action Committee

LWVNM advocacy at the state level is coordinated by the LWVNM Action Committee. All League members are invited to participate in the Action Committee, whether or not they wish to become official League lobbyists.

The Action Committee meets by Zoom weekly during the legislative session, and less regularly throughout the year.

You can receive Action alerts, participate in the discussion and receive notices of meetings by subscribing to the LWVNM Action mailing list.

Action for the 2026 Session

LWVNM Tracking sheet for 2026 bills.

The Action committee is meeting weekly, on Wednesday evenings, to discuss strategies for the current session.

Even though this is a short session, there are plenty of important bills on the agenda.

Our Advocacy Workshop took place on January 10: see below for a video.

Fact sheets for the areas we're following

Watch: Effective Citizen Advocacy at the Legislature, 2026

Learn tips from legislators and an experienced lobbyist about how to interact with legislators, speak at hearings and advocate for your cause.

Speakers:

This is a training on the legislative process. Questions about positions on specific issues were not permitted.

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Advocacy Documents:

The 2025 Session ran Jan 21 - Mar 22

Bills we tracked in 2025: see our 2025 Tracking Sheet plus a list of "C" priority bills that we also cared about, but didn't have resources to follow carefully.

Read this year's Fact Sheets on legislative areas we tracked.

Watch: 2025 Advocacy Workshop

The Advocacy Workshop was Saturday, January 4, and featured Senator Carrie Hamblen (D-Dona Ana), Representative Rebecca Dow (R-Grant, Hidalgo & Sierra), and Linda Siegle (Owner, Resources for Change).

You can find more details, and the documents discussed at the workshop here: 2025 LWVNM Advocacy Workshop.


Track Your Own List of Bills

Interested in bills beyond what's on the LWVNM tracking sheet?

The official NM Legislative site has My Roundhouse, where you can save a list of bills you're interested in and see them all on one page.

As an alternative, two projects, both run by LWVNM members, can help you track New Mexico bills and show you additional information that's hard to find on the legislative website:

Contacting the Legislature

Want to connect with your legislator? See our page on Contact Info for New Mexico Legislators, as well as the page on New Mexico Political District Maps.

Or use Find My Legislator on the New Mexico Legislative website.

Or call the legislative switchboard at (505) 986-4300 during the legislative session to contact your legislator or a legislative staff member.

Guide to the Legislative Website

Live Streaming: You can watch committee hearings while they're taking place via live webcast.

Finding Bills: The Bill Finder provides a list of all bills introduced to date. The titles are usually sufficiently descriptive to determine whether the bill is of interest. Locator reports provide other ways to search: by date of introduction or date of legislative action, or by current location, referrals, actions, etc. You can track bills that are of interest to you by using the My Roundhouse.

To see a complete list of all the bills this session, go to the Legislation List and click Go.

What do the Abbreviations Mean? The page for each bill lists the referrals and actions to date on the bill (use the link to the Key to Abbreviations provided on each page, also available on the left-hand side of most pages) as well as PDF files of the bill as filed, all amendments, and if appropriate the Financial Impact Report, which often contains a useful summary of the bill in addition to the financial analysis.

There's also the very useful Glossary which explains terms like the ones used on the House and Senate Floor Calendars.

When will a bill be discussed? Schedules change frequently. Check the Session Calendar to find out what bills are being discussed and what committees will be meeting.

Find a legislator's sponsored legislation, contact info, and committees: Find My Legislator.

Financial impacts of bills: The Legislative Council Service provides Fiscal Impact Reports (FIRs) for most bills. The FIR provides a general analysis of the bill as well as its fiscal impact and may be found through a link on the bill’s web page. The Attorney General’s office also provides analyses of some bills, which discuss legal and other issues.

Legislative Staff Agencies. A directory of the various Legislative Staff Agencies serving the New Mexico Legislature, such as the Legislative Education Study Committee .

Understanding Government Finances.

Become a League Lobbyist League Marchers

At the state level the League lobbies primarily on the basis of its state positions, which reflect the interests of the New Mexico Leagues, supplemented occasionally by national positions. We cannot advocate at the state level on the basis of local League positions that have not been adopted by LWVNM.

If you would like to lobby on behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Mexico, please send us an email with your phone number and local League’s name. Let us know your expertise and your issue areas, so we can collaborate effectively. To ensure that legislators receive concise information on advocacy issues, League leaders prepare fact sheets on our positions and the bills we support and oppose. These are posted here on the Action page. We have to speak with one voice, so we coordinate who will speak when and share our testimonies. For more information, see How to Testify at the Legislature on Behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Mexico.

An individual representing only themselves when speaking with a legislator or other state official or employee is not a lobbyist under the terms of the law. Individuals can be very effective without representing a group. Indeed, the most effective citizen lobbyist is the one who engages with their own state Senator and Representative.