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Legislative Council adopts 2025–26 interim committee appointments, creates federal-funding and committee-review panels
Summary
The Legislative Council approved the 2025–26 slate of interim committee appointments, created a Federal Funding Stabilization Committee and a work group to review interim committee size and attendance, and authorized leaders to adjust appointments as needed.
The Legislative Council on an apparent unanimous voice vote adopted the 2025–26 interim committee appointments, created a new Federal Funding Stabilization Committee and a short-term work group to review interim committees, and authorized the speaker and pro tempore to revise appointments as needed.
The decisions materialized during the council's organizational meeting, when the speaker and the pro tem read dozens of committee rosters and the council approved the full slate of appointments. The council also approved creation of a five-member Federal Funding Stabilization Committee for each chamber and named Representative Lundstrom and Senator Bill Soules as the respective chamber co-chairs, and it appointed legislative whips to a temporary work group to review interim committee size, attendance and quorum practices.
Why it matters: the appointments set who will staff and chair dozens of interim committees that shape draft legislation and oversight through the off-session months. The Federal Funding Stabilization Committee is tasked to compile an inventory of federal infrastructure and related funds flowing to New Mexico and to recommend steps to address potential reductions in federal support.
What the council did: the speaker opened the meeting by reading appointments to standing and statutory interim committees. By voice vote and with no recorded roll call, the council adopted the full set of interim committee appointments for 2025–26.
The council created the Federal Funding Stabilization Committee to run for the current interim, describing it as a narrow, technical panel that will inventory recurring and nonrecurring federal funds and fee-based revenues and offer recommendations to interim committees. The house co-chairs named for that committee include Representative Lundstrom; the senate co-chair named was Senator Bill Soules. The council also created a small work group of the four party whips — two from each chamber — to collect attendance and quorum data for interim committees and to recommend reforms (consolidation, membership changes or other steps) back to the Legislative Council.
Council procedure and next steps: the speaker and pro tem asked members to notify their offices if they do not wish to serve on a committee; staff will notify appointees and lead staff will contact chairs to schedule organizational meetings later in May and June. The speaker and pro tem were also authorized to make follow-up revisions to appointments to ensure proportional representation and compliance with appointing rules.
Votes at a glance: approval of minutes — moved by Madam Pro Tem, no opposition (minutes approved); creation of the Federal Funding Stabilization Committee — no recorded opposition (committee created); creation of the interim-committee review work group — motion carried with no recorded opposition; adoption of all interim appointments — motion carried with no recorded opposition; motion allowing the speaker and pro tem to revise appointments as needed — motion carried with no recorded opposition.
Members and staff said the council will rely on legislative council service staff for administrative support, and the service will provide the inventory and other requested data to the work group for analysis.
The council tentatively scheduled its next meeting for June 23.
