0001| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 73
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0002| 43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003| INTRODUCED BY
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0004| DANIEL P. SILVA
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0010| A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011| URGING THE MEMBERS OF THE NEW MEXICO CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
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0012| TO SUPPORT THE PASSAGE OF FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO AUTHORIZE THE
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0013| USE OF THE FOUR AND THREE-TENTHS CENT ($.043) FEDERAL GASOLINE
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0014| TAX REVENUES IN THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY TRUST FUND FOR HIGHWAY
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0015| INFRASTRUCTURE.
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0017| WHEREAS, in 1990 the United States congress began
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0018| diverting highway taxes for general revenue purposes,
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0019| including the four and three-tenths cent ($.043) per gallon
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0020| federal gasoline tax enacted in 1993; and
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0021| WHEREAS, in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, the United
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0022| States congress provided for deposit of all federal highway
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0023| taxes into the federal highway trust fund; and
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0024| WHEREAS, currently the United States congress has not
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0025| authorized the use of the four and three-tenths cent ($.043)
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0001| federal gasoline tax revenues in the federal highway trust
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0002| fund for use by the states for highway and transportation
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0003| infrastructure; and
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0004| WHEREAS, a bipartisan amendment proposed by Senators
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0005| Robert Byrd, Phil Gramm, John Warner and Max Baucus to the
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0006| Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act renewal
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0007| legislation in the United States senate would increase highway
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0008| authorizations by thirty billion dollars ($30,000,000,000)
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0009| over the next five years; and
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0010| WHEREAS, this money could be available for obligation by
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0011| the states beginning in fiscal year 1999, and New Mexico's
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0012| increased obligation authority is estimated to be at least two
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0013| hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) for fiscal years 1999
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0014| through 2003; and
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0015| WHEREAS, funding from that amount of additional federal
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0016| obligation authority would enable New Mexico to finance the
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0017| construction and improvement of a number of critical highway
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0018| projects throughout the state;
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0019| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0020| STATE OF NEW MEXICO that it urge the members of the New Mexico
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0021| congressional delegation to support the passage of federal
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0022| legislation to make available to states for highway and
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0023| transportation infrastructure the revenue from the four and
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0024| three-tenths cent ($.043) federal gasoline tax; and
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0025| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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