SENATE RESOLUTION 3

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Stuart Ingle

A RESOLUTION

REQUESTING THAT THE SENATE CONSIDER THE PROPOSITION THAT FOR EACH LAW PASSED BY THE SENATE, TWO EXISTING LAWS SHALL BE PROPOSED FOR REPEAL.

     WHEREAS, the number of laws proposed for passage each year continues to grow at an alarming rate; and

     WHEREAS, while the legislature passes only a fraction of the bills introduced each session, ten or twelve percent of a couple thousand bills each year results in a burgeoning body of law; and

     WHEREAS, in 2003, the legislature passed so many laws that it took four volumes of session laws to contain them all; and

     WHEREAS, New Mexico had only one million eight hundred nineteen thousand forty-six people at the last federal decennial census, most of whom, it must be pointed out, are law-abiding citizens; and

     WHEREAS, even with above-national-average growth, that is not very many people for the thousands of laws the state has;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the body be requested to consider the proposition that for every new or amended section of law passed by the senate it propose two laws for repeal; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the committees' committee name a select committee to study the proposition and propose changes to the senate's rules to accomplish this proposition; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the select committee report its findings to the body prior to the thirtieth day of the session.

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