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SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 12

48

TH LEGISLATURE

- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -

FIRST SESSION

, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Cynthia Nava

A JOINT MEMORIAL

DECLARING FEBRUARY 12, 2007 AS "NEW MEXICO APPRENTICESHIP DAY"

AT THE LEGISLATURE.

WHEREAS, apprenticeship programs offer significant

economic benefit to New Mexico by producing highly skilled

workers; and

WHEREAS, apprenticeship programs offer individuals the

opportunity for training and employment experience in over

eight hundred skilled trades; and

WHEREAS, forty-four organizations, including businesses,

business associations and unions, sponsor apprenticeship

programs in New Mexico; and

WHEREAS, approximately two thousand individuals

participate as apprentices in these programs; and

WHEREAS, apprenticeship programs are almost exclusively

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funded by the industries they serve;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE

STATE OF NEW MEXICO that February 12, 2007 be declared "New

Mexico Apprenticeship Day" at the legislature and that

organizations sponsoring apprenticeship programs be recognized

for their service to the citizens of New Mexico; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all New Mexicans be encouraged

to support apprenticeship programs that are economically and

socially beneficial to the state.

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