SR 5 — Inducts Pete Goicoechea into the Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1169)

S.R.Senate Resolution No.

55–Senators SENATECannizzaro, RTitus; ESOLUTION NO.

5–SBuck, ENATORSCruz-Crawford, CDaly, ANNIZZARO,Doñate, TDondero ITUS;Loop, Ellison, Flores, Hansen, Krasner, Lange, Neal, Nguyen, Ohrenschall, Pazina, Rogich, Scheible, Steinbeck, Stone and Taylor FILE NUMBER..........

BUCK , CRUZ -CRAWFORD , D ALY , D OÑATE, D ONDERO LOOP, E LLISON, FLORES, H ANSEN, K RASNER , LANGE , NEAL , N GUYEN , OHRENSCHALL , PAZINA, ROGICH , SCHEIBLE, TEINBECK , TONE AND TAYLOR M AY 7, 2025 ____________ Read and Adopted SUMMARY—Inducts Pete Goicoechea into the Senate Hall of Fame.

(BDR R-1169) ~ 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 , Pete Goicoechea was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, attended elementary school in Ely, Nevada, graduated from Eureka County High School and attended college at Utah State University in Logan, Utah;

and W HEREAS,HEREAS , Of Basque decent, Pete is a third-generation rancher in Nevada whose cattle ranching operation extends throughout Elko, Eureka and White Pine Counties and before returning to cattle ranching on a full-time basis, he worked for Kennecott Copper Mining, the Eureka County Road Department, Mt.

and W HEREAS, As a volunteer firefighter and Director of the Eureka County High School Rodeo Club, Pete served his local communitycommunityEureka in Eureka County;

and W HEREAS,HEREAS , In 1987, Pete was first elected to the Eureka County Board of County Commissioners on which he served for 16 years, 14 years of which as Chair of the Board;

and - *SR5* – 2 – W HEREAS , In 2002, Pete was elected to the Nevada Assembly to represent Assembly District 35, where he served for 10 years, holding various leadership positions, including positions as Co- Minority Whip and Assembly Minority Floor Leader and participating as an integral member of the illustrious Cowboy Caucus;

and W HEREAS , Pete served as a member of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means for two legislative sessions - 83rd Session (2025) – 2 – beginning in 2009, and then, after being elected to the Nevada Senate, he spent his next six legislative sessions as a member of the Senate Committee on Finance;

and W HEREAS , Pete has been married to his wife, Glady, for nearly 53 years and they had three children, Julian Joseph (“J.J.”), Jolene and Raymond Baptista (“Tista”), and have two granddaughters, Julianna and Amelia, who Pete affectionately refers to as “Punkie” and “Meme”;

now, therefore, be it R ESOLVED BY THE SENATES ENATE OF THE STATES TATE OF N EVADA , That, for his many years of devoted service to the State of Nevada and Eureka County, Nevada, as a member of the Eureka County Board of County Commissioners, a member of both the Nevada Assembly and Senate and as a Regent of the University of Nevada, Pete Goicoechea is hereby inducted into the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada;

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