S.R. 9


Senate Resolution No. 9--Senators Raggio, Titus, 
    Adler, Augustine, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Lee, 
    Lowden, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O'Connell, 
    O'Donnell, Porter, Rawson, Regan, Rhoads, 
    Shaffer, Townsend and Washington

                    May 8, 1995
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                 Read and adopted


SUMMARY--Inducts Melvin D. Close, Jr., into Senate 
          Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1940)




EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in bra
ckets [ ] is material to be omitted.

SENATE RESOLUTION--Inducting Melvin D. Close, Jr., into the Senate 
        Hall of Fame.


  WHEREAS, The Senate of the Legislature of the 
State of Nevada has established a Senate Hall of Fame whose 
members are selected by leadership from those past Senators 
who have served with distinction; and
  WHEREAS, Certain past state Senators have 
distinguished themselves with their exemplary contributions 
to the State of Nevada; and
  WHEREAS, Melvin D. Close, Jr., ably 
represented the residents of Clark County for 18 years in 
the Nevada Legislature, serving as an Assemblyman from 1965 
to 1970, as a Senator from 1971 to 1982, and in the 
leadership posts of Assembly Speaker, Assembly Minority 
Leader, and for two regular sessions as President Pro 
Tempore of the Senate; and
  WHEREAS, Major legislation sponsored by 
Senator Close included the creation of what is now the State 
Environmental Commission in an act to control air pollution 
and measures to protect the victims of crime; and
  WHEREAS, Because of Melvin D. Close, Jr.'s 
experience as an attorney and his attention to detail, many 
of his fellow legislators considered him to be one of the 
Senate's most astute Chairmen of the Senate Judiciary 
Committee, a position he held for several sessions; now, 
therefore, be it
  RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, 
That Senator Melvin D. Close, Jr., a highly respected member 
of the Senate for almost 2 decades, is hereby inducted into 
the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of 
Nevada; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate 
prepare and transmit a copy of this resolution to Senator 
Melvin D. Close, Jr.

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