This bill establishes a Creative Industries Division in New Mexico’s Economic Development Department. This division will promote New Mexico’s creative industries, support small businesses associated with creative industries, and support workforce training initiatives to help uplift creative industries. The bill also sets up a creative industries fund to provide grants to support creative industries and appropriates $65,000,000 to this endeavor. CPAC does not believe that taxpayers should be forced to pay for “creative” ventures of this nature and opposed this bill. The House passed this bill on February 24, 2023 by a vote of 56-10 and the bill later became law.