0001|                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 82
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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|                         ROMAN M. MAES
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0010|     
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0011|                        A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0012|     REQUESTING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND THE TOURISM
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0013|     DEPARTMENT TO ASSIST EFFORTS BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO ESTABLISH
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0014|     PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN NEW MEXICO AND MEXICO.
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0015|     
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0016|       WHEREAS, Recursos de Santa Fe, an educational nonprofit
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0017|     organization, is coordinating an educational seminar on a
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0018|     passenger train called the American orient express that would
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0019|     travel between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Mexico City, Mexico via
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0020|     the Camino Real; and
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0021|       WHEREAS, Recursos de Santa Fe would staff the train with
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0022|     presenters who would lecture on economic, social and cultural
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0023|     conditions related to doing business with Mexico; and
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0024|       WHEREAS, space on the train would be made available to key
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0025|     governmental and business representatives from New Mexico who
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0001|     would benefit from the educational program, in exchange for
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0002|     private or public sponsorship; and
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0003|       WHEREAS, the return trip and associated educational program
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0004|     would be structured for Mexican businessmen interested in doing
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0005|     business in New Mexico and the United States and would end in
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0006|     Santa Fe with a reception for them attended by New Mexican
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0007|     businessmen and elected officials; and
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0008|       WHEREAS, Recursos de Santa Fe is generating underwriting by
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0009|     private corporations and public entities sympathetic to
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0010|     international economic development; and
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0011|       WHEREAS, the successful implementation of this inaugural
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0012|     trip would open the door and the border to regular passenger
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0013|     excursions between Santa Fe and Mexico City with resultant
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0014|     economic benefits for both countries; and
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0015|       WHEREAS, the trips will coincide with the four hundredth
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0016|     anniversary of the Camino Real, which was a historic trade route
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0017|     that linked Santa Fe with Mexico City;
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0018|       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0019|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that Recursos de Santa Fe's is efforts in
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0020|     supporting international economic development and partnership
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0021|     with Mexico be recognized and that the economic development
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0022|     department and the tourism department provide assistance
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0023|     wherever possible; and
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0024|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the state highway and
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0025|     transportation department provide and support the implementation
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0001|     of a rail border crossing from its current bottleneck situation
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0002|     in Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas to Santa Teresa, New
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0003|     Mexico; and
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0004|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0005|     transmitted to the secretaries of economic development, tourism
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0006|     and highway and transportation.
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0007|                                    
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0008|   
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0009|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0010|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0012|   
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0013|                                             February 14, 1996
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0014|   
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0015|   Mr. President:
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0016|   
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0017|     Your RULES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0018|   
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0019|                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 82
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0020|   
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0021|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0022|   recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0023|   CORPORATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.
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0024|   
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0025|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0004|                              __________________________________
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0005|                              Gloria Howes, Chairman 
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0009|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0010|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0013|                     Date ________________________
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0016|   The roll call vote was <u> 6 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
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0017|   Yes:  6
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0018|   No:        0
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0019|   Excused:   EJennings, Aragon, Donisthorpe
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0020|   Absent:    0
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