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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR McSorley

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/1/08

HB

SHORT TITLE

"YWCA Day"

SM 4

ANALYST Shaya

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Memorial 4 recognizes the importance of the work that the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande

does in the state of New Mexico, that February 9, 2008 be proclaimed "YWCA Day" at the New

Mexico Legislature. That New Mexicans be encouraged to show their support for the YWCA-

Middle Rio Grande on this day; and that copies of this memorial are transmitted to the governor

and to the board of directors of the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

No Fiscal impact

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Senate Memorial for states the following;

•

The YWCA serves over twenty-five million women and their families throughout the

nation; and

•

The YWCA is one of the largest providers of child care, with over two hundred fifty

thousand children cared for; and

•

The YWCA helped over one million women last year in the areas of health care, domestic

violence and economic empowerment; and

•

The YWCA-Middle Rio Grande was founded on February 9, 1906 in New Mexico and

has been providing services to strengthen women and families for ninety-eight years in the

community and throughout the state of New Mexico; and

•

The YWCA-Middle Rio Grande helped over one hundred thousand women and their

families last year in the areas of women's health care, professional clothing for women,

early childhood education, nutritious meals for children in home daycare, technology

education for young women and other youth development; and

•

The YWCA-Middle Rio Grande will continue in its mission to empower women and help

create options that will enable them to live with dignity, strength and economic

independence;

RS/nt