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

SPONSOR Campos

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

3/8/07

HB

SHORT TITLE “Las Vegas, New Mexico Day"

SM 74

ANALYST Guambaña

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 74 requests the declaration of March 9, 2007 as “Las Vegas, New Mexico

Day" at the Senate.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Senate Memorial 74 states that:

•

Las Vegas, New Mexico, was established in 1835 on the Santa Fe Trail after a group of

settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government; and

•

The railroad arrived in 1880 when it set up a maintenance and provisioning depot east of

the old town and a "new town" was established;

•

Las Vegas was one of the largest cities in the southwest and host to its own opera house,

a college, a Harvey House Hotel and a Carnegie Library;

•

Las Vegas hosted a reunion of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, the earliest recorded ro-

deo and many western characters and events; and

•

Las Vegas is a city rich with history and tradition.

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