State of New Mexico
                      House of Representatives
  
                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
  
  
                                                    March 8, 1997
  
  
  Mr. Speaker:
  
       Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
  
                       HOUSE BILL 1186
  
  has had it under consideration and reports same with
  recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
  
       1.  On page 14, between lines 1 and 2, insert the following
  new section:
  
       "Section 10.  Section 30-16-36 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1971,
  Chapter 239, Section 12) is amended to read:
  
       "30-16-36.  RECEIPT OF PROPERTY OBTAINED IN VIOLATION OF ACT.-
  -Any person who receives the money, goods, services or anything else
  of value obtained in violation of Section [40A-16-33 NMSA 1953]
  30-16-33 NMSA 1978, and who knows or has reason to believe that it
  was so obtained, violates this section.  The degree of the offense
  is determined as follows:
  
            A.  if the value of all things of value obtained from any
  person [or persons] in violation of this section is one hundred
  dollars ($100) or less in any consecutive [six months] six-month
  period, then the offense is a petty misdemeanor;
  
            B.  if the value of all things of value obtained from any
  person [or persons] in violation of this section is more than one
  hundred dollars ($100) but [less than three hundred dollars ($300)
  in any consecutive six months period, then the offense is a fourth
  degree felony;
            C.  if the value of all things of value obtained from any
  person or persons in violation of this section is three hundred
  dollars ($300) or more in any consecutive six months period, then
  the offense is a third degree felony] not more than one thousand
  dollars ($1,000) in any consecutive six-month period, then the
  offense is a misdemeanor;
  
            C.  if the value of all things of value obtained from any
  person in violation of this section is more than one thousand
  dollars ($1,000) but not more than two thousand five hundred dollars
  ($2,500) in any consecutive six-month period, then the offense is a
  fourth degree felony;
  
            D.  if the value of all things of value obtained from any
  person in violation of this section is more than two thousand five
  hundred dollars ($2,500) but not more than twenty thousand dollars
  ($20,000) in any consecutive six-month period, then the offense is a
  third degree felony; or
  
            E.  if the value of all things of value obtained from any
  person in violation of this section is more than twenty thousand
  dollars ($20,000) in any consecutive six-month period, then the
  offense is a second degree felony."".
  
       2.  Renumber the succeeding sections accordingly.,
  
  and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE
  COMMITTEE.
  
                                Respectfully submitted,
  
  
  
                                                                 
                                                              Thomas P. Foy, Chairman
  
  
  Adopted                       Not Adopted                       
            (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
  
                         Date             
  
  The roll call vote was 7  For 0  Against
  Yes:      7
            Excused:  King, Luna, Mallory, Pederson, Rios, Sanchez
            Absent:   None
  
  
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