FIFTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2013

March 14, 2013

Mr. Speaker:

    Your VOTERS AND ELECTIONS COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

 SENATE RULES COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

 SENATE BILL 15, as amended

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

     1. On page 4, line 5, strike the semicolon and insert in lieu thereof a period, strike the remainder of the line and strike lines 6 through 10 in their entirety.

     2. On page 10, line 8, after "candidate", insert ", independent expenditure committee".

      3. On page 10, lines 8 through 11, remove the brackets and line-through.

     4. On page 10, line 10, after "political", insert "or independent expenditure".

     5. On page 10, line 11, strike the comma and insert in lieu thereof a semicolon, strike the remainder of the line and strike line 12 in its entirety.

     6. On page 10, line 17, strike ", suggestion".

     7. On page 11, line 9, strike "deemed to constitute".

     8. On page 11, line 12, strike ", suggested".

     9. On page 12, line 4, after "debt", remove the bracket and line-through and on lines 5 through 8, remove the bracket and line-through.

     10. On page 12, line 7, before "committee", insert "or independent expenditure".

     11. On page 13, line 6, strike "in New Mexico".

     12. On page 14, line 9, strike "in New Mexico".

     13. On page 15, lines 17 through 24, remove the brackets and line-through and strike the underscored language and insert in lieu thereof a period.

     14. On page 19, line 3, strike "or G" and insert in lieu thereof ", G or H".

     15. On page 20, line 6, strike "made or".

     16. On page 20, line 8, after "such," strike the remainder of the line and on line 9, strike the underscored language.

     17. On page 20, line 16, strike ", or of being made,".

     18. On page 20, line 19, strike "expenditure or".

     19. On page 20, line 20, strike "made or".

     20. On page 20, between lines 22 and 23, insert:

                "(6) by the earlier of midnight on the Thursday before a primary or general election, or within twenty-four hours of the independent expenditure, a report of each independent expenditure made after 5:00 p.m. on the Tuesday before the election that is for more than five hundred dollars ($500) in a legislative or non-statewide judicial election or more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) in a statewide election. Such expenditures shall be reported to the proper filing officer either in a supplemental report on a prescribed form within twenty-four hours of being made or in the report to be filed by midnight on the Thursday before a primary or general election, except that any such expenditure that is made after 5:00 p.m. on the Friday before the election may be reported by 12:00 noon on the Monday before the election;".

     21. Renumber the succeeding paragraphs accordingly.

     22. On page 21, line 9, after the comma, insert "political committee,".

     23. On page 22, line 2, after the comma, insert "political committees,".

     24. On page 22, line 4, after the comma, insert "political committee,".

     25. On page 22, lines 15 through 19, remove the brackets and line-through.

     26. Reletter the succeeding subsections accordingly.

     27. On page 22, strike lines 20 through 25 in their entirety, and on page 23 strike line 1 in its entirety.

     28. On page 23, line 2, before "An", insert the subsection designation "H.".

     29. On page 23, lines 2 and 6, strike "or political committee".

     30. On page 23, line 3, strike "or coordinated".

     31. On page 26, line 2, after "for", insert "political committees,".

     32. On page 28, line 4, after "official", insert ", political committee".,

and thence referred to the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.