0001| SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 12
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0002| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND
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0003| SESSION, 1996
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0004| INTRODUCED BY
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0005| ELIZABETH T. STEFANICS
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0011| A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0012| REQUESTING STATE AGENCIES TO ANALYZE FACTORS MAKING NEW MEXICO
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0013| ONE OF THE POOREST STATES IN THE COUNTRY AND RECOMMEND
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0014| LEGISLATION TO REDUCE THE POVERTY RATE AND BRING NEW MEXICO INTO
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0015| THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
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0017| WHEREAS, New Mexico is the second poorest state in the
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0018| country with twenty-one percent of its citizens in poverty,
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0019| according to the United States census bureau; and
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0020| WHEREAS, New Mexico stands forty-sixth among the states in
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0021| median income; and
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0022| WHEREAS, the median income for New Mexico actually declined
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0023| from 1993 levels in spite of a so-called expanding economy in
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0024| 1994 and 1995; and
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0025| WHEREAS, New Mexico ranks forty-ninth in number of citizens
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0001| with health insurance; and
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0002| WHEREAS, New Mexico ranks forty-seventh in disposable
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0003| personal income per capita;
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0004| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0005| STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the children, youth and families
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0006| department, the human services department, the department of
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0007| health, the labor department and the state agency on aging, as
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0008| well as the human needs coordinating council, study factors that
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0009| contribute to poverty and the effects of poverty and make
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0010| recommendations for state actions to address the issue to the
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0011| legislative health and human services committee and to the
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0012| legislative finance committee by November 1, 1996; and
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0013| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0014| transmitted to the secretaries of children, youth and families,
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0015| human services, health and labor and the director of the state
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0016| agency on aging.
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0019| FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0020| SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0023| January 30, 1996
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0025| Mr. President:
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0002| Your RULES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0004| SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 12
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0006| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0007| recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0008|
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0009| Respectfully submitted,
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0013| __________________________________
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0014| Gloria Howes, Chairman
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0018| Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0019| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0023| Date ________________________
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0001| The roll call vote was 7 For 0 Against
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0002| Yes: 7
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0003| No: 0
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0004| Excused: EJennings, Wray
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0005| Absent: 0
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0008| SJ012RU1
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0009| FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0013| January 31, 1996
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0016| SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENT number _______ to SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 12
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0018| Amendment sponsored by Senator Leonard Lee Rawson
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0021| 1. On page 1, lines 22 and 23, strike "in spite of a so-called expanding economy in 1994 and 1995" and insert in lieu
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0022| thereof "yet saw significant increases in growth in per capita
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0023| income in 1994 and 1995".
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0025| 2. On page 1, between lines 23 and 24 insert the following:
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0001| "WHEREAS, per capita income grew by 7.9 percent between
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0002| 1994 and 1995; and".
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0010| __________________________
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0011| Leonard Lee Rawson
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0015| Adopted ___________________ Not Adopted _____________________
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0016| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0019| Date _________________
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0020| State of New Mexico
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0021| House of Representatives
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0023| FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0024| SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0002| February 8, 1996
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0005| Mr. Speaker:
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0007| Your LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE, to whom
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0008| has been referred
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0010| SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 12, as amended
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0011|
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0012| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0013| recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0014| APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0015|
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0016| Respectfully submitted,
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0021| Vincent Gallegos, Chairman
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0024| Adopted Not Adopted
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0003| Date
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0005| The roll call vote was 4 For 0 Against
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0006| Yes: 4
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0007| Excused: None
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0008| Absent: Roberts, Marquardt
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