HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 16

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2004

INTRODUCED BY

Max Coll

A JOINT RESOLUTION

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW MEXICO TO PROVIDE THAT THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE SIGN BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS BEFORE THEY ARE SENT TO THE GOVERNOR.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. It is proposed to amend Article 4, Section 20 of the constitution of New Mexico to read: 

     "Immediately after the passage of any bill or resolution, it shall be enrolled and engrossed, and read publicly in full in each house, and thereupon shall be signed by the presiding [officers of each] officer of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate in open session, and the fact of such reading and signing shall be entered on the journal. No interlineation or erasure in a signed bill shall be effective unless certified thereon in express terms by the presiding officer of [each] the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate quoting the words interlined or erased, nor unless the fact of the making of such interlineation or erasure be publicly announced in each house and entered on the journal."

     Section 2. The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be submitted to the people for their approval or rejection at the next general election or at any special election prior to that date that may be called for that purpose.

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