LEGISLATION.griegoCh.11

## Rewriting the Griego Memorial legislation ### Some ways you can use this page: 1. Make comments in the space at the bottom of the page. Point out what you think might constitute useful changes in text or wording. They will be added to the page comments' section with most recent comments first. 2. Copy a section of the memorial and paste it in the comment form; make your revisions to that section along with notes. 3. Prefacing your revision with 'PARAGRAPH 3' or whatever would let me (or others who want to learn how to do this, it's simple) re-order the comments on a new webpage for more serious work. If we need to, I can establish different pages for specific paragraphs requiring more work... ## A MEMORIAL REQUESTING HEARINGS ON THE LOSS OF PRODUCTION DUE TO REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT. from http://www.legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/02%20Regular/memorials/house/HM008.pdf paragraph 1: WHEREAS, federal and state laws and regulations enacted for the purpose of public health, safety and welfare have caused a loss in production capacity for numerous New Mexico businesses and are adversely affecting the revenue of the state and local governments and the general economy; and paragraph 2:WHEREAS, the United States and New Mexico constitutions require compensation for property taken for public purposes; and paragraph 3: WHEREAS, the United States supreme court has declared investment-backed expectations as property that is due compensation under the United States constitution's fifth and fourteenth amendments; and paragraph 4: WHEREAS, productive capacity is classified as an investment-backed expectation and therefore considered private property; paragraph 5: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the appropriate legislative interim committee be requested to conduct hearings concerning the loss of production due to required compliance with regulations enacted for public purposes and to report its findings and recommendations to the first session of the forty-sixth legislature; and paragraph 6:BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the New Mexico congressional delegation and the New Mexico legislative council.

Participant Comments follow below

Could someone more knowledgable please list the basic points in the memorial that we want to change or will fight? Do we have data that the first paragraph is true? Isn't para.3 coming into dispute with the recent Supreme Court ruling against the primacy of property rights? Can we dispute the definition of para. 4? Do we need to dispute the need for hearings laid out in para.5, or should we seek to re-contextualize them, demand statewide education on the implications of their findings, or some such? valerie 04/30/02 20:36:04 GMT