SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 1

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42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO -SECOND SESSION, 1996

INTRODUCED BY MANNY M. ARAGON

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ADOPTING LEGISLATIVE JOINT RULE 11-1 TO IMPOSE A DEADLINE FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF SUBSTANTIVE MEMORIALS.

WHEREAS, legislative Joint Rule 8-1 requires that joint rules may be adopted, amended or repealed by concurrent resolution approved by two-thirds of the membership of each house;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN, that the following new proposed Joint Rule 11-1 be adopted:

"SUBSTANTIVE MEMORIALS INTRODUCTION (11-1) No substantive memorial shall be introduced at any regular session of the legislature subsequent to the thirty-seventh calendar day in sessions held in odd-numbered years or subsequent to the twenty-second

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calendar day in sessions held in even-numbered years. The legislative council service shall not draft or prepare a substantive memorial for introduction at any regular session of the legislature that convenes in an odd-numbered year unless the request to draft or prepare the substantive memorial has been received by the legislative council service prior to 5:00 p.m. on the thirty-fifth calendar day of that session. The legislative council service shall not draft or prepare a substantive memorial for introduction at any regular session of the legislature that convenes in an even-numbered year unless the request to draft or prepare the substantive memorial has been received by the legislative council service prior to 5:00 p.m. on the twentieth calendar day of that session.".

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