0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 87
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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|                             GARY K. KING
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO CREATE AN
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0012|     INTERIM LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND MAKE LEGISLATIVE
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0013|     RECOMMENDATIONS ON ALTERNATE FORMS OF REGULATION AND
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0014|     TELECOMMUNICATION DEREGULATION AS THEY AFFECT NEW MEXICO.
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0015|     
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0016|          WHEREAS, technology of telecommunications is changing at
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0017|     a speed nearly beyond man's comprehension; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, in attempts to give the industry room to grow in
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0019|     step with these changes, congress enacted the federal
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0020|     Telecommunications Act of 1996; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, at the state level it is also necessary to allow
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0022|     and promote competition among industry participants; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, the legislature needs to gather substantial
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0024|     information and to study this very complex issue of
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0025|     telecommunications deregulation, including alternate forms of
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0001|     regulation, statewide extended areas of service and ways to
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0002|     increase the number of New Mexico households with telephone
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0003|     service; 
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0004|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0005|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico legislative council be
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0006|     requested to create a joint legislative telecommunications
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0007|     deregulation interim committee to study all aspects of the
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0008|     impact of changes and deregulation in the telecommunications
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0009|     industry and alternative forms of regulation; and
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0010|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the telecommunications
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0011|     deregulation interim committee invite appropriate testimony
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0012|     from all affected state agencies, including the state
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0013|     corporation commission, the New Mexico public utility
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0014|     commission, the general services department, the economic
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0015|     development department and all interested industry and
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0016|     consumer representatives; and
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0017|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the telecommunications
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0018|     deregulation interim committee report its findings and any
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0019|     legislative recommendations to the first session of the forty-
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0020|     fourth legislature; and
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0021|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0022|     sent to the co-chairmen of the New Mexico legislative council.
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