0001|                    HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 45
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                       DELORES C. WRIGHT
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0009|     
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0010|     
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0011|                        A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0012|     REQUESTING THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER INCREASING ARMED
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0013|     GUARDS AT THE STATE CAPITOL DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND
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0014|     EMPLOYING ARMED GUARDS DURING THE INTERIM.
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0015|     
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0016|       WHEREAS, extremists have targeted public buildings for
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0017|     assault in order to express their violent political goals; and
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0018|       WHEREAS, such extremists blew up a federal government
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0019|     building in Oklahoma City, killing almost two hundred innocent
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0020|     people in the process; and
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0021|       WHEREAS, bomb threats directed at New Mexico's state
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0022|     capitol have been received by local authorities; and
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0023|       WHEREAS, a visiting legislator's purse was snatched on the
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0024|     capitol grounds in the fall of 1995; and
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0025|       WHEREAS, the capitol has been the target of graffiti
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0001|     vandals;
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0002|       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0003|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the legislative council consider
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0004|     increasing armed guards during the legislative session and
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0005|     employing armed guards during the interim; and
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0006|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0007|     transmitted to the co-chairmen of the legislative council and to
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0008|     the director of the legislative council service.
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0009|                                                       State of New Mexico
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0010|                    House of Representatives
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0011|   
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0012|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0013|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0014|   
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0015|                                              February 2, l996
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0018|   Mr. Speaker:
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0019|   
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0020|       Your RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS COMMITTEE, to
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0021|   whom has been referred
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0022|   
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0023|                    HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 45
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0025|   has had it under consideration and finds same to be
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0001|   GERMANE in accordance with constitutional provisions.
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0002|   
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0003|                                Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0008| <u>  </u>                            Barbara A. Perea Casey,
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0009|   Chairperson
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0011|   
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0012|   Adopted <u>                    </u>    Not Adopted <u>                     
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0014|            (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0016|                      Date <u>            </u>
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0018|   The roll call vote was<u> 8 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0019|   Yes:          8
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0020|   Excused: Nicely, Olguin, Pederson, Picraux, Rodella, 
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0021|   J. G. Taylor, Wallach
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0022|   Absent:  None
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0023|   
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0024|   HJ045RC1
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