[ACLU-NM] Legislative Alert on Teen Curfew & A+ on those phone calls tabling Parental Notification and Defense of Marriage

[Kimberly Lavender]

Thanks to your many quick phone calls,  we have defeated the worst of  the
Defense of Marriage Acts (HB 445, sponsored by Representative Gloria Vaughn)
and the Parental Notification bill (HB 251, sponsored by Representative
Larry Larranaga).  The Parental Notification bill would have required
parental notification for minors under the age of 18 seeking an abortion
    *Your phone calls to Representatives Irvin Harrison (Vice Chair of
Committee) & Al Park especially helped!
  We still face a fight against the Senate's Defense of Marriage Act (SB
597) sponsored by Bill Sharer.
  We support Senator Cisco McSorley's Domestic Partner  Relationship Act
(SB576) .

   For a description of the different marriage bills, see our wonderful
Weblog.  Go to our website at www.aclu-nm.org.  Then click on Weblog at the
top of the right column.  It is Legislative Alert #7.


  We expect our next big bill for a committee hearing  to be Teen Curfew.
Soon, very soon, we'll have an entry on the website regarding this issue.


   Genetic privacy bill (HB 183)  is effectively tabled in the  House

            ***SB103 (INS bill that prohibits state funding for local and
state law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws) has been
referred to the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee and then to the
House Judiciary Committee.  We need chapter members to work on this bill.
We cannot lose this in the House; we need 36 votes.  So here are your
missions, Friends:  (The Roundhouse number is 505.986.4300)
           Southern Chapter (Las Cruces area):  Please call Representatives
Joni Gutierrez and Joseph Cervantes;(Alamogordo area)please contact
Representative Terry Marquardt
            Southwestern Chapter (Silver City area):  Please call
Representative Dianne Hamilton
            McKinley Chapter (Gallup area):  Please call Representatives
Irvin Harrison and Ken Martinez
            Central NM Chapter (Albuquerque surrounding areas):  Please call
Representatives Thomas Swisstack, Eric Youngberg and Teresa Zanetti




 Go to our website at www.aclu-nm.org.  Then click on Weblog at the  top of
the right column.

 Joyce
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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