SENATE MEMORIAL 41

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Steve Komadina

A MEMORIAL

REQUESTING THE MINORITY MEMBERS OF THE SENATE TO DO THEIR PART TO INTRODUCE MORE BILLS.

     WHEREAS, members of the senate minority represent more than forty percent of the body's membership, yet have introduced fewer than twenty-five percent of the bills before the body, raising delicate questions about the minority's productivity and the majority's inability to exercise restraint; and

     WHEREAS, there is no doubt that the minority members of the senate are just as capable as the majority at generating proposals, initiatives, ideas, notions and stray thoughts worthy of being introduced as legislation; and

     WHEREAS, we can always use more good ideas; and

     WHEREAS, more than a few of the good ideas proposed by minority members of the senate are mysteriously stalled in senate committees, including, in many cases, the first committee to which they were referred; and

     WHEREAS, that's no good;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the minority members of the senate be requested to introduce more bills, especially good ones like they're known to do; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the minority members of the senate be requested to work harder to get their bills scheduled and heard in their first committees, just like the majority members are somehow able to do; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this memorial be given its first committee hearing sometime in April.

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