Bill to make Monday after Super Bowl a state holiday fails in committee
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A bill to designate the day after Super Bowl Sunday as an official state holiday failed to get a first down in the Roundhouse on Thursday. The bill would have added Football Monday, or the second Monday in February, to the list of legal public holidays in New Mexico.
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The sponsor, Sen. Joshua Sanchez (R-Bosque), said this year alone, $22.6 million Americans called out sick after the Super Bowl. However, the bill got little traction in its first committee Thursday morning. The bill was ultimately tabled.
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