[ACLU-NM] Legislative Alert on Financial Protection, Repealing the Death Penalty & Genetic Privacy bills

[Kimberly Lavender]

We have lots of news & homework this week.  Remember the Roundhouse #
505.986.4300!

$ Financial Privacy: HB 364 (sponsored by Danice Picraux also) would limit
the sharing of private financial data by financial institutions.
         This will also be heard tomorrow in the House Business & Industry
Committee at 1:30 in room 309
         We especially need your help for this bill tomorrow.  The members
of this Committee are
                    $Fred Luna (chair)
                      Debbie Rodella (Vice Chair)
                      Hector H. Balderas
                      Jose Campos
                      George Hanosh
                       Ted Hobbs
                       Dona Irwin
                       Terry Marquardt
                        Greg Payne
                        Jane Powdrell-Culbert
                        Thomas Taylor
                        Jim Trujillo
                        Richard Vigil


+ Genetic Privacy:  HB 183 (sponsored by Danice Picraux)  protects people
from having their genetic information used in employment.
         We are back on track -- adding language to include housing, public
accommodations and credit to this bill and dropping the inappropriate
language regarding insurance.
                              It will be heard soon in the House Judiciary
Committee.  We'll keep you posted.


#  Repeal the Death Penalty (HB576, HB577, HB578) (sponsored by
Representative Gail Beam)
                        These bills seek to repeal the death penalty as well
as
                                                 to provide reparations,
hotlines and grief services for victims and their families
                                                 to provide family leave for
murder victims' families to testify in court

                    These bills will be heard Thursday afternoon, 2.10, at
2:10 in House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee and the House Labor &
Human Resources Committee.

                         Call your legislators at the Roundhouse:
505.986.4300 before Thursday!


*Defense of Marriage Act (HB445).  We want to kill this bill that would
define marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
                    It includes no civil union language and is also opposed
Equality New Mexico.
                    PLEASE call Representatives Irvin Harrison (Gallup) and
Al Park (Albuquerque) to oppose HB 445.
                                            We want to kill this bill in
committee (House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee)



Don't  forget to visit our website for legislative updates on these and
other issues:   www.aclu-nm.org
In the righthand column, click Weblog and then go to Legislative Issues.
Joyce Briscoe aclunmpr at comcast.net

Legislative and Public Education Advocate, ACLU-NM

PO Box 80915
Albuquerque, NM 87198
go to our website at www.aclu-nm.org

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