0001|                          SENATE MEMORIAL 4
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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|                          MICHAEL S. SANCHEZ
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0009|     
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THAT THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM RECOGNIZE THE
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0012|     CONTRIBUTION TO UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION MADE BY TEACHING
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0013|     ASSISTANTS AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, the institutions of higher education in the state
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0016|     have many graduate students in a variety of programs; and
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0017|          WHEREAS, many of those graduate students are employed, by
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0018|     contract, with the university as teaching assistants or
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0019|     research assistants to provide tenured professors with
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0020|     assistance on academic projects, and to teach lower-level
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0021|     curricula to undergraduate students; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, these students are generally employed for the
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0023|     entire academic year for a salary of about eight thousand
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0024|     dollars ($8,000), making it difficult to obtain health
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0025|     insurance, at a time when many graduate students who are
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0001|     teaching assistants or research assistants are married and have
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0002|     families; and
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0003|          WHEREAS, the university does not include health benefits
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0004|     in any contractual agreements with these students, who provide
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0005|     the university a large savings by teaching classes that
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0006|     qualified faculty members would have to teach but for their
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0007|     presence, at a cost much, much greater to the university than
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0008|     an annual eight thousand dollar ($8,000) stipend; 
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0009|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE
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0010|     OF NEW MEXICO that it support efforts to provide graduate
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0011|     students across the state who are either teaching assistants or
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0012|     research assistants at their respective institutions of higher
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0013|     education with health insurance benefits, either paid in full
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0014|     by the university or with some contribution toward the policy
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0015|     also made by those students; and
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0016|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the issue of health insurance
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0017|     benefits for graduate students who are teaching assistants or
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0018|     research assistants be reviewed by all institutions of higher
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0019|     education in the state who employ these students, and that the
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0020|     status of this issue be reported to the appropriate interim
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0021|     legislative committee no later than October 1, 1997; and
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0022|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0023|     sent to the presidents of the university of New Mexico, New
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0024|     Mexico state university, New Mexico institute of mining and
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0025|     technology, western New Mexico university, eastern New Mexico
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0001|     university and  New Mexico highlands university.
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0002|                                     
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0003|   
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0004|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0005|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0007|   
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0008|                                               February 27, 1997
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0009|   
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0010|   Mr. President:
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0011|   
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0012|       Your RULES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0013|   
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0014|                         SENATE MEMORIAL 4
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0015|   
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0016|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0017|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0018|   
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0019|                                Respectfully submitted,
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0023|                                
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0024|   __________________________________
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0025|                                Gloria Howes, Chairman 
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0004|   Adopted_______________________   Not
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0005|   Adopted_______________________
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0006|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0010|                     Date ________________________
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0013|   The roll call vote was <u> 6 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
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0014|           Yes:    6
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0015|           No:     0
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0016|                Excused:     Aragon, Gorham
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0017|           Absent: None
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0020|   SM004RU1
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