The 2011 special session is only three days old, but already the governor's agenda appears bogged down in a political squabble.

Four bills related to Gov. Susana Martinez's biggest priorities haven't even been printed.

They've all been sent to a committee of the House of Representatives that will determine whether they should be taken up, even though each subject was on the proclamation that called lawmakers into special session Tuesday.

One of the bills would overturn a 2003 law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. The others would merge state agencies, prop up the state's unemployment fund and give local authorities the power to ban fireworks.

By comparison, most other bills introduced in the House so far have been printed and directed to committees for hearings.

On Thursday, the sponsor of the driver's license bill, unaffiliated Rep. Andy Nuñez of Hatch, accused House Speaker Ben Luján of playing political games to delay the governor's agenda.

Luján disputed the accusation, saying he wasn't deliberately delaying anything, and that he had told Nuñez as much.

Luján acknowledged that each of the four bills was in the governor's proclamation but said he's waiting on executive messages from the Governor's Office telling the House to take up the issues in question.

While Luján denied deliberately holding up the governor's agenda, he had a hard time containing his anger at how he perceives Martinez has treated legislative leaders.

Luján said the governor had ignored a letter from a bipartisan panel asking her not to put controversial issues on the agenda for this special session, which is primarily focused on the 10-year redrawing of legislative and congressional district boundaries known as redistricting.

"We sent the letter to her," Luján said. "Do you think she even acknowledged the letter? No, nobody got a letter back. Now she says, 'I want you to do this and this.' Well, we asked her to do something and she didn't even acknowledge the fact that we asked her to do something."

The Governor's Office did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.

As the most powerful lawmaker in the Legislature, Luján can determine the fate of legislation by deciding where to send pieces of legislation — either to receptive committees or to antagonistic ones.

He also has the power to decide whether the bills must be vetted by the House Rules and Orders of Business Committee. The committee will meet Monday, Luján said. Presumably, it will take up the four bills and rule on whether they should be heard.

Nuñez, for his part, said he would push Luján to bring up the driver's license bill as soon as possible during the special session.

"He says he is not going to do anything until we get redistricting," Nuñez said. "He'll do everything he can, but we got the votes to do the same thing we did last time."

During this year's regular legislative session, the House passed the driver's license bill.

In the end, however, the legislation died. Because the Senate approved a separate piece of legislation, a conference committee was appointed to try and reconcile the differences. It ran out of time, effectively killing the legislation.

The House has introduced many of Martinez's nonredistricting priorities during the special session, and Senate members have introduced a couple, including a social promotion bill, which encountered a small hiccup Thursday. The Senate Committee on Committees, which decides if bills should be heard in that chamber, decided Thursday not to send it on to a committee for a hearing because of Sen. Majority Leader Michael Sanchez's concern that the legislation as written expanded the ban on social promotion past the third grade to other grades.

The legislation is being redrafted, Senate staff said later Thursday.

Contact Trip Jennings at 986-3050 or at tjennings@sfnewmexican.com.