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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

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ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

3/01/07

HB

SHORT TITLE Senator John Pinto Day

SM 55

ANALYST Baca

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Memorial 55 honors thirty years of service by State Senator John Pinto and declares

February 28, 2007 "Senator John Pinto day" at the Senate. A copy of the memorial is to be

delivered to Senator Pinto.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Citing his humble beginnings as a member of a sheep herding family in Lupton, Arizona and

Gallup, New Mexico, the memorial lists his educational accomplishments at a Bureau of Indian

Affairs boarding school and his earning both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in

elementary education from the University of New Mexico.

Senate Memorial 55 also cites Senator Pinto’s many accomplishments, some which are

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Served for thirty years in the New Mexico State Senate;

•

Was in the United States Marines

as a code talker;

and, in 2001, received a Congressional Silver

Medal of Honor for his service as a code talker;

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Employed as a school teacher for twenty-eight years as a school teacher in the Gallup-McKinley

Schools;

Senate Memorial 55 – Page

2

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Served as president of the Breadsprings Chapter of the Navajo Nation from 1950 to 1954;

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Was president of the Gallup Indian community center from 1950 through 1970,

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Served as secretary-treasurer for the Red Rock Chapter of the Navajo Nation from 1954

to 1960; and

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Was as a member of the eastern Navajo tribal council from 1950 to 1960; and

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Was elected in 1972 to the McKinley county board of commissioners, where he served

for four years as a commissioner.

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