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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
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ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
3/01/07
HM 54
SHORT TITLE Senator John Pinto Day
SB
ANALYST Baca
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
NFI
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Memorial 54 honors thirty years of service by State Senator John Pinto and declares
February 28, 2007 "Senator John Pinto day" at the Senate. A copy of the memorial is to be
delivered to Senator Pinto.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
Citing his humble beginnings as a member of a sheep herding family in Lupton, Arizona and
Gallup, New Mexico, the memorial lists his educational accomplishments at a Bureau of Indian
Affairs boarding school and his earning both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in
elementary education from the University of New Mexico.
Senate Memorial 55 also cites Senator Pinto’s many accomplishments, some which are
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Served for thirty years in the New Mexico State Senate;
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Was in the United States Marines as a code talker; and, in 2001, received a Congressional
Silver Medal of Honor for his service as a code talker;
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Employed as a school teacher for twenty-eight years as a school teacher in the Gallup-
McKinley Schools;
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Served as president of the Breadsprings Chapter of the Navajo Nation from 1950 to 1954;
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Was president of the Gallup Indian community center from 1950 through 1970,
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Served as secretary-treasurer for the Red Rock Chapter of the Navajo Nation from 1954
to 1960; and
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Was as a member of the eastern Navajo tribal council from 1950 to 1960; and
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Was elected in 1972 to the McKinley county board of commissioners, where he served
four years as a commissioner.
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