NM: Domestic Partnership Bill May be Introduced in Senate Today

Supporters of domestic partnership rights said their massive 825 page bill could be introduced Monday in Santa Fe during the regular session. Todd McElroy of Equality New Mexico , an organization supporting the bill, said it will give unmarried couples, gay or straight, the same rights and benefits as married couples.

"Those are the property rights, rights of inheritance, medical decisions making, and those sorts of things that are automatically bestowed with a marriage license," McElroy said. Last year's domestic partnership bill , which died in the Senate, was only 11 pages.

McElroy said this year's bill has grown so much because it spells out the more than 300 rights given to married couples in the state.

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