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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 537
117TH CONGRESS
2d Session J
SENATE
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REPORT
117-186
CONSENT TO STATE OF NEW MEXICO CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT
OCTOBER 18, 2022.-Ordered to be printed
Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of October 14, 2022
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 3404]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 3404), to provide the consent of Congress to an
amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Mexico, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 3404 is to provide the consent of Congress to
an amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Mexico.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The New Mexico-Arizona Enabling Act of 1910 enabled New
Mexico and Arizona to become states.1 Like the enabling acts of
most states admitted to the Union since 1802,2 the Enabling Act
of 1910 granted New Mexico and Arizona large tracts of federal
land for the support of public schools and other public institutions.
Unlike most other enabling acts, however, the 1910 Act imposed
'Act of June 20, 1910, 36 Stat. 557. Sections 1-18 provided for New Mexico; sections 19-35
provided for Arizona.
2See Andrus u. Utah, 446 U.S. 500, 506 (1980).
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