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New Mexico held constitutional conventions in 1848, 1849, 1850, 1889–90, 1907, and 1910. The constitutional draft in 1872 was by a territorial legislature. [9] The New Mexico Constitution was drafted by 100 delegates elected by the people of New Mexico; 71 delegates were Republicans, 28 Democrats, and one socialist. [10]
The New Mexico Senate (Spanish: Senado de Nuevo México) is the upper house of the New Mexico State Legislature. The Senate consists of 42 members, with each senator representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state. All senatorial districts are divided to contain a population on average of 43,300 state residents.
[10] [11] A Texas convention debated the annexation offer and almost unanimously passed an ordinance assenting to it on July 4, 1845. [12] The convention debated through August 28, and adopted the Constitution of the State of Texas on August 27, 1845. [13] The citizens of Texas approved an annexation ordinance and new constitution on October 13 ...
More: 'Clean fuels' bill advances in New Mexico Senate, to make oil companies pay for pollution. SB 294 also removed language allowing produced water to be included in the program, opting for the ...
The bill would raise the royalty rate oil and gas drillers pay to operate on State Trust land from 20 to 25 percent. It could become more expensive to drill for oil on New Mexico state land ...
The memorial was designed to see regulations enacted to block oil and gas wells from being near schools, homes or other facilities.
The New Mexico Constitution limits the regular session to 60 calendar days, every other year it is 30 days. [2] The lieutenant governor presides over the Senate, while the Speaker of the House is elected from that body in a closed-door majority-member caucus.
But New Mexico's three U.S. representatives, all Democrats, made sure the Louisiana Republican's role in blocking a vote on the bipartisan measure earlier this year was front and center. U.S. Rep. ...