SR 6 — Inducts Mark Amodei into the Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1164)

S.R.Senate Resolution No.

66–Senators SENATECannizzaro, RSettelmeyer; ESOLUTION NO.

6–SBrooks, ENATORSBuck, CANNIZZARODenis, ,Donate, SETTELMEYERDondero ;Loop, Goicoechea, Hammond, Hansen, Hardy, D.

BROOKSHarris, ,Kieckhefer, UCKLange, ,Neal, ENIS,Ohrenschall, DONATE,Pickard, DONDERORatti, LOOPScheible, ,Seevers GOICOECHEAGansert ,and HAMMONDSpearman ,FILE HANSENNUMBER.......... , HARDY , D.

HARRIS, K IECKHEFER , LANGE , N EAL, O HRENSCHALL , PICKARD , RATTI, S CHEIBLE, SEEVERS G ANSERT AND SPEARMAN M AY 24, 2021 ____________ Read and Adopted SUMMARY—Inducts Mark Amodei into the Senate Hall of Fame.

(BDR R-1164) ~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

W HEREAS,HEREAS , 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 who have made exemplary contributions to the State of Nevada;

and W HEREAS,HEREAS , Mark Eugene Amodei was born in Carson City, where he graduated from Carson High School, received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Nevada, Reno and his juris doctor from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific;

and W HEREAS,HEREAS , Mark served as a Captain in the United States Army, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he received the Army Commendation Medal and Meritorious Service Medal;

and W HEREAS,HEREAS , In 1996, Mark was elected to the Nevada Assembly and in 1998, he was elected to the Nevada Senate, serving 2 years in the Assembly and 12 years in the Senate;

and W HEREAS,HEREAS , During his tenure in the Senate, Senator Amodei served in leadership positions as Assistant Majority Whip, as the Senate’s President Pro Tempore during three regular legislative sessions and six special sessions and as Chair of the Senate Committee on Judiciary;

and - *SR6* – 2 – W HEREAS , During his 14 years as a Legislator, one of Mark’s primary concerns was stewardship of Nevada’s natural resources, especially oversight policies regarding Lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Basin;

and - 81st Session (2021) – 2 – W HEREAS , Mark considers the births of his daughters, Ryanne and Erin, to be the most important events of his life;

now, therefore, be it R ESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NNEVADA EVADA , That, for his many years of devoted service to the people of the State of Nevada as a member of both the Nevada Senate and Assembly and his continuing service as a member of the House of Representatives for Nevada’s 2 ndCongressional District, Mark Eugene Amodei is hereby inducted into the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada;

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