New Mexico House Panel Sends NMMI Cadet Sex Ban to Floor
The House Privilege and Elections Committee voted 5 to 3 to send without recommendation a proposed constitutional amendment barring women from the New Mexico Military Institute Corps of Cadets. The measure faces equal protection questions under the 14th Amendment, with debate centering on male status for cadets while keeping female admission to the school.
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Santa FE
House
New Mexico Military Institute Corps of Cadets
Louis Romero
D-Mckinley
Romero
Jim McGee Jr
R-Bernalillo
McGee
William O'Donnell
D-Dona Ann
Rep. O'Donnell
James K. Otts
D-Eddy
Otts
Attorney General's Office
R.E. Thompson
D-Chaves
Roswell
U.S. Supreme Court
NMMI
Atty
Toney Anaya
Supreme Court
Cadet Corps
Sujan
Bobby Duran
D-Taos
Rep
William Warren
D-Bernalillo
U.S. Congress
Warren
New Mexico
Janice Pastor
New Mexico Women’s Caucus
Ms. Pastor
Rep. Warren
NMMTI
Legislative School Study Committee
David Cothrun
Terry Terrasas
Richard Mather
Albuquerque
House Privileges and Elections Committee
Mather
Senate Finance Committee approves large general appropriations act
In Santa Fe the Senate Finance Committee backed the general appropriations bill with no amendments, aiming for Senate passage and swift transmission to Gov. Apodaca. The bill totals 581.5 million with 579.2 million for ongoing purposes and 2.3 million for one time expenditures, higher than the prior year.
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C.B. Trujillo
D-Taos-San Miguel- Mora
Sen. Trujillo
House
Senate Finance Committee
Trujillo
Senate
Apodaca
Sen
Aubrey Dunn
Otero
New Mexico
Dunn
Tom Brown Jr
Eddy Chaves
House Appropriations and Finance Committee
Drought relief papers await governor signature
Officials said the first five counties San Juan Har ding Union Colfax and Quay are awaiting Gov. Apodaca's signature to qualify for emergency federal drought aid. The program starts March 2 with a May 31 end date and may extend.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
Jerry Apodaca
San Juan
Harding
Union
Colfax
Quay
al Lobato
State Planning Office
Lobato
Sandoval
Rio Arriba
Roosevelt
Chaves
New Mexico House Approves Tax Refund and Cut
The New Mexico House passed a bill to grant taxpayers a 50 percent refund on 1976 income taxes and establish a permanent 20 percent reduction in income taxes.
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Santa FE
New Mexico House
Ten Clovis Liquor Dealers Resentenced in Roswell Court
Ten Clovis liquor dealers were resentenced in U.S. District Court in Roswell after pleading no contest to conspiring to restrain interstate trade. Judge E L Mechem ordered fines totaling to the United States with varying probation periods and several defendants given suspended sentences. Three other men, previously fined to the council, remain under review pending further research.
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Clovis
U.S
Roswell
Albuquerque
Robert Singer
U.S. District Court
E.L. Mechem
Curry-Roosevelt County Council On Alcoholism, Inc
10Th
U.S Circuit Court of Appeals
District Court
Mechem
United States
L. Michael Johnson
William C. Crawford
Aztec Bowling Corp
Johnnie M. Goodman
Kit Pettigrew
Thomas Wolf
Council
Fence memorial heads to House floor in New Mexico
Rep. Phelps Anderson chairs a memorial urging BLM New Mexico to cooperate with ranchers and study antelope fencing policies on federal lands. The House Agriculture Committee passed the measure unanimously, with an amendment planned to address economic impacts on New Mexico higher education and ranch values.
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Santa FE
Phelps Anderson
Bureau of Land Management
New Mexico
House Agriculture Committee
Anderson
House
Senate
BLM
Arthur Zimmerman
The
Daily Record
State Game and Fish Department
Roswell
New Mexico State University
Zimmerman
Rep. Anderson
State of
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al Nmmi
Rep. Brown
Carter
Federal Disaster Administration
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Ben Lujan
Colin McMillan
R-Chaves- DeBaca
Bulletin
UPI Telephoto
Graham McCulloch
Richardson
Tex
Chaparral Liquors, Inc
Tower Hotel Corp
Lindsay L. Brown
Fred W. Johnston
James Ek. Foster
Frank A. Murray
Gold Lantern
Marjorie Beck
Record
Capitol Bureau
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