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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR McSorley
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2/1/08
HB
SHORT TITLE
"YWCA Day"
SM 4
ANALYST Shaya
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Memorial 4 recognizes the importance of the work that the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande
does in the state of New Mexico, that February 9, 2008 be proclaimed "YWCA Day" at the New
Mexico Legislature. That New Mexicans be encouraged to show their support for the YWCA-
Middle Rio Grande on this day; and that copies of this memorial are transmitted to the governor
and to the board of directors of the YWCA-Middle Rio Grande.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
No Fiscal impact
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
Senate Memorial for states the following;
The YWCA serves over twenty-five million women and their families throughout the
nation; and
The YWCA is one of the largest providers of child care, with over two hundred fifty
thousand children cared for; and
The YWCA helped over one million women last year in the areas of health care, domestic
violence and economic empowerment; and
The YWCA-Middle Rio Grande was founded on February 9, 1906 in New Mexico and
has been providing services to strengthen women and families for ninety-eight years in the
community and throughout the state of New Mexico; and
The YWCA-Middle Rio Grande helped over one hundred thousand women and their
families last year in the areas of women's health care, professional clothing for women,
early childhood education, nutritious meals for children in home daycare, technology
education for young women and other youth development; and
The YWCA-Middle Rio Grande will continue in its mission to empower women and help
create options that will enable them to live with dignity, strength and economic
independence;
RS/nt