0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 48
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          DELORES C. WRIGHT
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0009|     
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER
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0012|     INCREASING THE NUMBER OF ARMED GUARDS AT THE STATE CAPITOL
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0013|     DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND EMPLOYING ARMED GUARDS
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0014|     DURING THE INTERIM.
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0015|     
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0016|          WHEREAS, extremists have targeted public buildings for
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0017|     assault in order to express their violent political goals; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, such extremists blew up a federal government
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0019|     building in Oklahoma City, killing almost two hundred innocent
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0020|     people in the process; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, bomb threats directed at New Mexico's state
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0022|     capitol have been received by local authorities; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, a visiting legislator's purse was snatched on the
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0024|     capitol grounds in the fall of 1995; and
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0025|          WHEREAS, the capitol has been the target of graffiti
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0001|     vandals;
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0002|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0003|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico legislative council
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0004|     consider increasing the number of armed guards during the
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0005|     legislative session and employing armed guards during the
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0006|     interim; and
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0007|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0008|     transmitted to the co-chairmen of the New Mexico legislative
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0009|     council and to the director of the legislative council service.
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0010|                                                         State of New Mexico
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0011|                      House of Representatives
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0012|   
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0013|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0014|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0017|                                                  March 15, 1997
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0020|   Mr. Speaker:
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0021|   
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0022|        Your LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE, to
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0023|   whom has been referred
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0024|   
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0025|                   HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 48
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0002|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0003|   recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0004|   APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0006|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0012| <u>                                </u>                             Rick Miera, Chairman
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0015|   Adopted <u>                    </u>     Not Adopted <u>                    
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0017|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0019|                        Date <u>            </u>
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0021|   The roll call vote was<u> 5 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0022|   Yes:      5
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0023|             Excused:  Foy, Gentry, Marquardt
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0024|             Absent:   None
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