0001|                           HOUSE MEMORIAL 3
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            J. PAUL TAYLOR
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0009|     
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     COMMENDING THE NEW MEXICO PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION FOR EIGHTY
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0012|     YEARS OF DEDICATION TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF
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0013|     ALL NEW MEXICANS.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, May 1, 1997 marks the eightieth anniversary of
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0016|     the establishment of the New Mexico public health association
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0017|     on May 1, 1917; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, the New Mexico public health association was
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0019|     established for the purpose of the "dissemination of knowledge
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0020|     concerning the causes and methods of prevention of communicable
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0021|     diseases, including tuberculosis, and the prosecutions of an
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0022|     educational campaign, especially among the youth of the state,
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0023|     in furtherance of public health"; and
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0024|          WHEREAS, the original program of work adopted in 1917 was
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0025|     focused on the establishment of a "good working public health
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0001|     department as a branch of the state's government in Santa Fe"
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0002|     through activities that included:  "the securing for New Mexico
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0003|     of an adequately financed and efficiently managed state
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0004|     department of health" by educating the legislature and the
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0005|     public about the importance of public health programs; and
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0006|          WHEREAS, New Mexico was the last state in the union to
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0007|     have a department of health; and
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0008|          WHEREAS, these goals of the New Mexico public health
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0009|     association were accomplished within two years with the
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0010|     establishment of a department of health in 1919; and
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0011|          WHEREAS, population-based public health programs in New
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0012|     Mexico have a distinguished record in reducing infectious and
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0013|     communicable diseases, dramatically lowering infant mortality,
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0014|     rapidly responding to newly emerging health problems, data
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0015|     collection and vital statistics and tremendously increasing
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0016|     access to health services; and
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0017|          WHEREAS, the New Mexico public health association has
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0018|     maintained its advocacy of protection, promotion and prevention
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0019|     activities for all citizens of New Mexico for these eighty
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0020|     years; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, the essential nature of public health and
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0022|     population-based public health programs remains critically
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0023|     important to the citizens of New Mexico today and on into the
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0024|     future;
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0025|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
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0001|     REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that it commemorate
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0002|     and commend the New Mexico public health association for eighty
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0003|     years of service to the citizens of New Mexico; and
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0004|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this commendation be presented
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0005|     to the New Mexico public health association in recognition of
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0006|     its eightieth anniversary, May 1, 1997.
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0011|                                 State of New Mexico
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0012|                      House of Representatives
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0013|   
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0014|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0015|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0017|   
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0018|                                                  March 11, 1997
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0021|   Mr. Speaker:
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0022|   
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0023|        Your LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE, to
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0024|   whom has been referred
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0025|   
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0001|                       HOUSE MEMORIAL 3
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0002|                               
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0003|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0004|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0006|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0012| <u>                                </u>                             Rick Miera, Chairman
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0017|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0021|   The roll call vote was<u> 6 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0022|   Yes:      6
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0023|             Excused:  Macko, Marquardt
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0024|             Absent:   None
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