0001|                    SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 1
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           MARK L. BOITANO
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0010|                       A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
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0011|     ADOPTING LEGISLATIVE JOINT RULE 11-1 PERTAINING TO LIMITING
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0012|     THE NUMBER OF BILLS INTRODUCED BY EACH MEMBER.
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0014|          WHEREAS, Legislative Joint Rule 8-1 requires that joint
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0015|     rules may be adopted, amended or repealed by concurrent
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0016|     resolution approved by two-thirds of the membership of each
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0017|     house;
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0018|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE
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0019|     OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN, that the following new
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0020|     proposed Joint Rule 11-1 be adopted to read:
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0021|          "LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF BILLS INTRODUCED BY A LEGISLATOR
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0022|     (11-1)
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0023|               A.  No member of the senate shall introduce more
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0024|     than fifteen bills, and no member of the house of
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0025|     representatives shall introduce more than nine bills during a
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0001|     legislative session.
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0002|               B.  Excluded from each legislator's total are:
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0003|                    (1)  two bills endorsed by an interim
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0004|     legislative committee;
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0005|                    (2)  bills requested by the governor or by a
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0006|     state agency;
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0007|                    (3)  simple or joint memorials; and
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0008|                    (4)  resolutions.
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0009|               C. The limitation may be suspended in either house
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0010|     by a two-thirds' vote in that house.
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0011|               D.  A legislator may allocate any part of his
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0012|     allotment for bills to another member of the same house.".
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