First Regular Session

Sixty-second General Assembly

LLS NO. R99­0637.01 Carrie Hunt

STATE OF COLORADO

JUDICIARY

BY SENATORS Dyer, Powers, and Grampsas;

also REPRESENTATIVES Larson and Alexander.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 99-013

CONCERNING NAMING THE DIVISION OF YOUTH CORRECTIONS FACILITY AFTER SENATOR ROBERT E. DENIER.

WHEREAS, Robert E. DeNier of Durango served his country with honor in World War II in the European Theatre; and

WHEREAS, Robert E. DeNier further served his country with honor for twenty­seven years as an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with the last nineteen years of service in Southwest Colorado; and

WHEREAS, Robert E. DeNier served with great distinction in the Colorado General Assembly as a Representative from 1976 to 1982 and as a Senator from 1986 to 1990; and

WHEREAS, Robert E. DeNier was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1982; and

WHEREAS, Senator DeNier was a member of the Joint Budget Committee for four years; and

WHEREAS, Senator DeNier championed innovative and far­reaching legislation in the fields of criminal justice and juvenile justice and corrections; and

WHEREAS, Senator DeNier and his wife Wilma continue to contribute to the well­being of the community; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty­second General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:

That the new Division of Youth Corrections facility to be located in La Plata County be named in honor of Senator Robert E. DeNier.