SB 404
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AN ACT
RELATING TO THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL; CREATING A STATUARY
HALL COMMISSION; HONORING POPÉ; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION;
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. COMMISSION CREATED.--The "statuary hall
commission" is created. The commission shall be composed of
no more than nine persons, the chairman of which shall be the
governor and the membership of which shall include the state
treasurer, the state cultural affairs officer, the executive
director of the New Mexico office of Indian affairs and no
fewer than four members appointed by the governor from a list
of names that have been submitted to him by the Indian
nations, tribes or pueblos in New Mexico, containing names of
members of those Indian nations, tribes or pueblos who would
be appropriate to serve on the commission. Terms of the
members shall extend until a second statue from New Mexico is
emplaced in the national statuary hall in Washington, D.C.
The governor shall fill any vacancy on the statuary hall
commission within three months from the date that the vacancy
occurs in the same manner as original members were appointed.
Section 2. DUTIES.--The statuary hall commission shall:
A. meet at the call of the governor but shall
meet no fewer than four times per year;