HOUSE BILL 400

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2011

INTRODUCED BY

Thomas A. Anderson

AN ACT

RELATING TO CRIMINAL LAW; IMPOSING A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE FOR CERTAIN REGISTRATION OFFENSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 1-20-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1969, Chapter 240, Section 428, as amended by Laws 1993, Chapter 314, Section 60 and also by Laws 1993, Chapter 316, Section 58) is amended to read:

     "1-20-3. REGISTRATION OFFENSES.--

          A. Registration offenses consist of performing any of the following acts willfully and with knowledge and intent to deceive any registration officer or to subvert the registration requirements of the law or rights of any qualified elector:

                [A.] (1) signing or offering to sign a certificate of registration when not a qualified elector;

                [B.] (2) falsifying any information on the certificate of registration;

                [C.] (3) soliciting, procuring, aiding, abetting, inducing or attempting to solicit, procure, aid, abet or induce any person to register or attempt to register with the name of any other person, whether real, deceased or fictitious; or

                [D.] (4) destroying the certificate of registration of any qualified elector, or removing such certificate from its proper binder or file, except as provided in the Election Code.

          B. Whoever commits a registration offense is guilty of a fourth degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978 and six months of the sentence shall not be suspended, deferred or taken under advisement."

     SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2011.

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