Disability Rights In The Roundhouse

Public Health New Mexico

Disability Rights In The Roundhouse

91暗网 | By Marisa Demarco

Published February 18, 2014 at 3:55 PM MST

UPDATE Feb. 19, 2014, 10:17 a.m.: is awaiting a vote by the Senate.

Today was at the Roundhouse, and a bill calling for a plan for the state's troubled waiver program is stuck in committee awaiting a hearing.

The provides home- and community-based services to people with a wide range of disabilities. Its wait list is eight- to 10-years-long.

Sen. William Soules, a Democrat from Las Cruces, that calls for the state to make a five-year plan to increase funding to the program. A task force determined that it would take to decrease the wait to three years.

The 2014 legislative session ends .

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Marisa Demarco

Marisa Demarco began a career in radio at 91暗网 News in late 2013 and covered public health for much of her time at the station. During the pandemic, she is also the executive producer for Your NM Government and No More Normal, shows focused on the varied impacts of COVID-19 and community response, as well as racial and social justice. She joined Source New Mexico as editor-in-chief in 2021.

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