N.M. Business well cut during session
Business groups, generally well cut with the support and billing in 1997 against the legislative power, including the preservation of key economic development tools and a passage of a few low-profile but important steps for small businesses.
But there were also disappointments, including two on the last day, when a Filibuster on prisons has led to the death of a business-backed school in the world of work and tax credit program of a bill creating regional transit authorities.
“It was a very good session for business,” said John Carey, president of the Association for trade and industry, as the national chamber of commerce.
The echo these sentiments, Jeff Sterba, chairman of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, said: “In general, concerns that companies were discussed, and responsibly and reasonably.”
In addition to his stands on important issues like Indian gaming, new prisons and new taxes, economic pressure groups for job creation programmes and improving the overall business climate.