Member-driven Policies

ACI’s policy agenda is the product of year-round input by our member businesses, working through focused policy committees. 

Our policy committees are open to all employees at all member businesses.  As a result of this process:

• ACI’s policy agenda is shaped directly by those it affects, and those who know the relevant issues and industries best.
• ACI’s policy agenda comes straight from our member businesses -- never from staff, political parties or closed-door meetings.
• ACI’s policy agenda always reflects the most current needs of New Mexico’s business community and the constantly changing political landscape.

2019 Interim Policy Agenda

2019 Policy Agenda Priorities

2019 Policy Agenda

Presented in Alphabetical Order by Committees

Agriculture and Food Processing: ACI supports seed standardization legislation to ensure the consistent statewide regulation of seeds.

Economic Development and Research & Development: Full and increased investment in strategic economic development programs such as JTIP, LEDA, and the Rapid Workforce Development fund, as well as enhancing the tools available, such as the high wage jobs tax credit, to incentivize business investment, and job creation.

Education and Workforce Development: A statewide plan that directs and measures the efforts of public colleges and universities to increase educational attainment and expand research and economic development efforts in communities across the state..

Energy and Extractive Industries: Policies that provide for the commercially viable development of energy infrastructure, including roads, oil and natural gas pipelines, electric transmission lines, energy storage, and electric and natural gas distribution systems that will benefit end-use markets, including such things as natural gas and electric vehicles and smart-grid technologies; including the development of an “Interim storage facility for spent facility for spent nuclear fuel.

Entrepreneurship: Opening the Angel Investment Tax Credit to out-of-state investors to increase the diversity pool of potential investors.

Envrionment: Reforming the regulatory and administrative process that eliminates delays in permit processing and promotes consistent, reasonable, and predictable administrative processes and enforcement procedures.

Healthcare: Maximization of federal funds through actions such as fully funding the state Medicaid program and Safety Net Care Pool.

Regulatory and Government Accountability: Expansion of the Administrative Hearing Office to conduct hearings on administrative adjudicatory actions arising from all state agencies using its own qualified, professional, objective, and independent hearing officers or administrative law judges.

Taxation:The evaluation of the entire state tax code for recommendations to create a stable revenue source without a disproportionate burden on particular industries, individuals, or employers and in conjunction with a statewide economic development plan.

Water and Land Use: The creation of public-private partnerships to develop water infrastructure that will provide public benefits, such as economical infrastructure project delivery and water conservation.

Workplace Issues: Statewide uniformity of employment laws, such as paid or unpaid leave mandates, wage or fringe benefit mandates, and scheduling mandates; in order to provide a stable environment for employers and promote economic development.